THE UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL ECOLOGY OF VISION RESEARCH GROUP

We are an internationally leading vision research group that focuses on visually guided behaviours. We study how animal vision functions in a wide range of species - including crustaceans, insects, fish and cephalopods. A particular strength of the group is discovering new optical principles behind the ways animals manipulate light and understanding how and why vision and animal optics have evolved.

Publications

Follow this link to a complete and up-to-date list of the groups publications.

Lab Members

Our research group consists of a mix of biologists, physicists and engineers. This allows us to successfully follow cross-disciplinary approaches in our research. A full list of current group members can be found here.

New Papers from the group:

KD Feller, D Wilby, G Jacucci, TJ Wardill, TW Cronin, NWRoberts Long-Wavelength Reflecting Filters Found in the Larval Retinas of One Mantis Shrimp Family (Nannosquillidae) 2019 . DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2019.07.070

SP Smithers, NW Roberts, MJ How Parallel processing of polarization and intensity information in fiddler crab vision Science Advances 5 (8), eaax3572

Filmed by Viktor Gruev

Much of the research work we undertake is experimental field work. We use field sites in the Pyrenees, Spain, Panama and the coral reefs off Lizard Island on the Great Barrier Reef in Australia. The video above shows us heading out to Horseshoe Reef just off Lizard Island where we were setting up remote polarization cameras.