Rockpool Gobies Change Colour for Camouflage
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Rockpool Gobies Change Colour for Camouflage
Camouflage is found in a wide range of species living in numerous habitat types, offering protection from visually guided predators. This includes many species from the intertidal zone, which must cope with background types diverse in appearance and with multiple predator groups foraging at high and low tide. Many animals are capable of either relatively slow (hours, days, weeks) or rapid (seco...
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Martin Stevens is Associate Professor of Sensory and Evolutionary Ecology at the University of Exeter. He did his PhD at Bristol University on bird vision and animal camouflage, and then undertook several fellowships at Cambridge University before moving to Exeter in 2013. His work has focussed on animal coloration, vision, and methods to quantify visual signals, especially image analyses. This...
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عنوان ژورنال: PLoS ONE
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1932-6203
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0110325