Global population growth and associated urban development are having profound effects on
biodiversity. Two major outcomes of expanding development that affect wildlife are light and …

Flower colour is an important signal used by flowering plants to attract pollinators. Many
anthophilous insects have an innate colour preference that is displayed during their first …

Almost all animals, no matter how humble, possess eyes. Only those that live in total
darkness, such as in a pitch-dark cave, may lack eyes entirely. Even at tremendous depths …

Colour vision allows animals to use the information contained in the spectrum of light to
control important behavioural decisions such as selection of habitats, food or mates. Among …

The light regime is an ecologically important factor in pelagic habitats, influencing a range of
biological processes. However, the availability and importance of light to these processes in …

Light represents one of the most reliable environmental cues in the biological world. In this
review we focus on the evolutionary consequences to changes in organismal photic …

Animals are active at different times of the day and their activity schedules are shaped by
competition, time-limited food resources and predators. Different temporal niches provide …

Although variation in the color of light in terrestrial diurnal and twilight environments has
been well documented, relatively little work has examined the color of light in nocturnal …

Scorpions are largely solitary, nocturnal arachnids that glow a bright cyan-green under UV
light. The function of this fluorescence is a mystery. Previous studies of four species from …

Stingless bees constitute a species-rich tribe of tropical and subtropical eusocial Apidae that
act as important pollinators for flowering plants. Many foraging tasks rely on vision, eg …