How can dragonflies discern bright and dark waters from a distance? The degree of polarisation of reflected light as a possible cue for dragonfly habitat selection

By Balázs Bernáth, G. Szedenics, H. Wildermuth, Gábor Horváth. 2002

85 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics

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In Ecology

1. S. McCauley
2. Izumi Washitani
3. Alysa Remsburg
4. M. C. Urban
5. David J. Thompson
6. Taku Kadoya
7. T. Merckx
8. David W. Macdonald

In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

1. S. McCauley
2. Izumi Washitani
3. M. C. Urban
4. David J. Thompson
5. Taku Kadoya
6. T. Merckx
7. David W. Macdonald
8. M. Samways

In Genetics

1. Izumi Washitani
2. M. C. Urban
3. T. Merckx
4. David W. Macdonald
5. Gábor Horváth
6. M. Samways

Citations in the corpus

• Shade Alone Reduces Adult Dragonfly (Odonata: Libellulidae) Abundance (2008, background): “Lighting can also play an important role in habitat selection (e.g., Davies 1978; McCall and Primack 1992; Grundel et al. 1998; Bernath et al. 2002; De Cauwer et al. 2006; Reinhardt 2006) because insects that fly during the day orient almost entirely based on visual cues (Lehrer 1994; Dafni et al.”
• Dragonfly species richness on man-made ponds: effects of pond size and pond age on newly established assemblages (2004, background): “In addition, some species use the reflecting surface of water as a cue of habitat selection (Corbet 1999; Bernath et al . 2002 ).”
• The dragonfly delusion: why it is essential to sample exuviae to avoid biased surveys (2010, background): “This reliance may make them inherently vulnerable to ecological traps, as the presence of conspecifics (Corbet 1999), structural features such as vegetation (Wildermuth 1992), and linear polarised light reflected from waterbodies (Bernáth et al. 2002), have all been identified as cues.”
• Ecological traps for dragonflies in a cemetery: the attraction of Sympetrum species (Odonata: Libellulidae) by horizontally polarizing black gravestones (2007, background): “Horizontal surfaces reflecting light with a higher p-value were more attractive to polarotactic dragonflies than less polarizing surfaces (Horváth et al., 1998; Bernáth et al., 2002).”
• Disturbance heterogeneity determines freshwater metacommunity structure (2004, background): “For example, Odonata use macrophyte cover in addition to other cues to determine habitat suitability (Bernáth et al. 2002).”
• The Effects of Dispersal and Recruitment Limitation on Community Structure of Odonates in Artificial Ponds (2006, background): “The degree of pond shading and the amount of polarized light reflected from ponds can affect site detection by dragonflies (Bernath et al. 2002) and a survey of dragonfly larvae in natural ponds in this area found a strong negative relationship between pond canopy cover and larval richness and…”