False-colour photography: a novel digital approach to visualize the bee view of flowers
The colour vision system of bees and humans differs mainly in that, contrary to humans, bees are sensitive to ultraviolet light and insensitive to red light. The synopsis of a colour picture and a UV picture is inappropriate to illustrate the bee view of flowers, since the colour picture does not ex...
Main Authors: | Christian Verhoeven, Zong-Xin Ren, Klaus Lunau |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Enviroquest Ltd.
2018-07-01
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Series: | Journal of Pollination Ecology |
Online Access: | https://pollinationecology.org/index.php/jpe/article/view/482 |
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