Sensitivity to biologically relevant odours may exceed the sum of component thresholds

Autor:	Robyn Hudson, Hans Distel, Matthias Laska
Rok vydání:	1990
Předmět:	Orders of magnitude (entropy) Component (thermodynamics) Threshold limit value Nature Conservation Botany Phyllostomatidae Biology Biological system Biochemistry Sensitivity (electronics) Ecology Evolution Behavior and Systematics Dilution
Zdroj:	Chemoecology. 1:139-141
ISSN:	1423-0445 0937-7409
DOI:	10.1007/bf01241655
Popis:	In four fruit-eating bats sniff-rate analysis revealed the threshold value for natural banana odour to be 1 × 10−4 vol% of head-space while the threshold values for its major components were found to be 3–6 orders of magnitude higher; even the total of molecules present at the threshold dilution of banana odour was 2 orders of magnitude below the lowest threshold values obtained for single components. Thus, the responsiveness of the bats to threshold concentration of natural banana odour is discussed as an example of synergism of stimuli.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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