Studies on luminescence. Attraction of animals to a weak light
- 1 February 1959
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom
- Vol. 38 (3) , 477-479
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0025315400006901
Abstract
In order to evaluate the biological significance of luminescence, it is desirable to know how weak light affects the behaviour of marine animals, and what intensities they can see. Much information is available concerning the attractive power of bright lights, and light directed movements (see Verheijen, 1958, for example), but little for weak point sources. Weak coloured lights have been used by Baylor & Smith (1953) to trap freshwater arthropods.This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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