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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Martin Stevens is a British sensory and evolutionary ecologist, an underwater photographer and a natural history and popular science writer. He is known for his work on disruptive coloration in animal camouflage.
Martin Stevens 's Published Works
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- Animal camouflage: current issues and new perspectives (2009) (567)
- Using digital photography to study animal coloration (2007) (565)
- Disruptive coloration and background pattern matching (2005) (463)
- The biology of color (2017) (410)
- Image calibration and analysis toolbox – a free software suite for objectively measuring reflectance, colour and pattern (2015) (305)
- Speed versus accuracy in collective decision making (2003) (289)
- Visual Ecology (2015) (263)
- Visual modeling shows that avian host parents use multiple visual cues in rejecting parasitic eggs (2010) (249)
- Predator perception and the interrelation between different forms of protective coloration (2007) (242)
- Defining disruptive coloration and distinguishing its functions (2009) (228)
- Linking the evolution and form of warning coloration in nature (2012) (226)
- Pattern mimicry of host eggs by the common cuckoo, as seen through a bird's eye (2010) (225)
- Disruptive coloration, crypsis and edge detection in early visual processing (2006) (218)
- The role of eyespots as anti‐predator mechanisms, principally demonstrated in the Lepidoptera (2005) (217)
- AVIAN VISION AND THE EVOLUTION OF EGG COLOR MIMICRY IN THE COMMON CUCKOO (2011) (185)
- Disruptive contrast in animal camouflage (2006) (174)
- Studying Primate Color: Towards Visual System-dependent Methods (2009) (147)
- Disruptive ecological selection on a mating cue (2012) (141)
- How to evade a coevolving brood parasite: egg discrimination versus egg variability as host defences (2011) (126)
- Visual mimicry of host nestlings by cuckoos (2011) (125)
- Conspicuousness, not eye mimicry, makes "eyespots" effective antipredator signals (2008) (120)
- Dazzle coloration and prey movement (2008) (117)
- Camouflage through colour change: mechanisms, adaptive value and ecological significance (2017) (114)
- Camouflage predicts survival in ground-nesting birds (2016) (113)
- Color signal information content and the eye of the beholder: a case study in the rhesus macaque. (2010) (101)
- Host-Parasite Arms Races and Rapid Changes in Bird Egg Appearance (2012) (101)
- Animal Camouflage: Mechanisms and Function (2011) (98)
- Motion dazzle and camouflage as distinct anti-predator defenses (2011) (92)
- Color change and camouflage in juvenile shore crabs Carcinus maenas (2014) (84)
- Field experiments on the effectiveness of ‘eyespots’ as predator deterrents (2007) (79)
- Direction and strength of selection by predators for the color of the aposematic wood tiger moth (2011) (77)
- Repeated targeting of the same hosts by a brood parasite compromises host egg rejection (2013) (77)
- Color Change, Phenotypic Plasticity, and Camouflage (2016) (71)
- Animal camouflage: compromise or specialize in a 2 patch-type environment? (2007) (71)
- The key role of behaviour in animal camouflage (2018) (69)
- Quantifying camouflage: how to predict detectability from appearance (2016) (69)
- Signal honesty and predation risk among a closely related group of aposematic species (2015) (66)
- Evolution of correlated complexity in the radically different courtship signals of birds-of-paradise (2018) (63)
- Colour change and camouflage in the horned ghost crab Ocypode ceratophthalmus (2013) (63)
- Familiarity affects the assessment of female facial signals of fertility by free-ranging male rhesus macaques (2011) (63)
- Camouflage through behavior in moths: the role of background matching and disruptive coloration (2015) (61)
- Countershading enhances cryptic protection: an experiment with wild birds and artificial prey (2007) (61)
- Character displacement of Cercopithecini primate visual signals (2014) (59)
- Outline and surface disruption in animal camouflage (2009) (59)
- Defeating Crypsis: Detection and Learning of Camouflage Strategies (2013) (56)
- The effect of predator appetite, prey warning coloration and luminance on predator foraging decisions (2010) (55)
- Animal Camouflage: Crypsis through background matching (2011) (55)
- Camouflage and Individual Variation in Shore Crabs (Carcinus maenas) from Different Habitats (2014) (54)
- Hidden Messages: Are Ultraviolet Signals a Special Channel in Avian Communication? (2007) (54)
- The ecology of multiple colour defences (2016) (53)
- Wall lizards display conspicuous signals to conspecifics and reduce detection by avian predators (2014) (52)
- The anti-predator function of ‘eyespots’ on camouflaged and conspicuous prey (2008) (51)
- Microhabitat choice in island lizards enhances camouflage against avian predators (2016) (51)
- The effects of pattern symmetry on detection of disruptive and background matching coloration (2006) (50)
- Background matching and disruptive coloration as habitat-specific strategies for camouflage (2019) (48)
- Avian Vision and Egg Colouration: Concepts and Measurements (2011) (47)
- Improvement of individual camouflage through background choice in ground-nesting birds (2017) (46)
- Do animal eyespots really mimic eyes (2014) (45)
- Revealed by conspicuousness: distractive markings reduce camouflage (2013) (44)
- Signaling in multiple modalities in male rhesus macaques: sex skin coloration and barks in relation to androgen levels, social status, and mating behavior (2013) (44)
- Color contrast and stability as key elements for effective warning signals (2014) (43)
- Divergence in cryptic leaf colour provides local camouflage in an alpine plant (2017) (40)
- Motion dazzle and the effects of target patterning on capture success (2014) (38)
- Shape matters: animal colour patterns as signals of individual quality (2017) (38)
- Changes in Women’s Facial Skin Color over the Ovulatory Cycle are Not Detectable by the Human Visual System (2015) (38)
- The evolutionary ecology of decorating behaviour (2015) (38)
- Maternal effects and warning signal honesty in eggs and offspring of an aposematic ladybird beetle (2014) (38)
- Escape Distance in Ground-Nesting Birds Differs with Individual Level of Camouflage (2016) (36)
- Conspicuous male coloration impairs survival against avian predators in Aegean wall lizards, Podarcis erhardii (2015) (36)
- Shape, colour plasticity, and habitat use indicate morph-specific camouflage strategies in a marine shrimp (2016) (36)
- The effectiveness of disruptive coloration as a concealment strategy. (2006) (35)
- Avoidance of an aposematically coloured butterfly by wild birds in a tropical forest (2016) (34)
- Intraspecific Colour Variation among Lizards in Distinct Island Environments Enhances Local Camouflage (2015) (31)
- Rockpool Gobies Change Colour for Camouflage (2014) (31)
- Hosts of avian brood parasites have evolved egg signatures with elevated information content (2015) (31)
- Imperfect camouflage: how to hide in a variable world? (2019) (31)
- Avian vision models and field experiments determine the survival value of peppered moth camouflage (2018) (28)
- The unsuitability of html-based colour charts for estimating animal colours – a comment on Berggren and Merilä (2004) (2005) (28)
- Improved camouflage through ontogenetic colour change confers reduced detection risk in shore crabs (2019) (28)
- pat‐geom: A software package for the analysis of animal patterns (2019) (27)
- Plant Camouflage: Ecology, Evolution, and Implications. (2018) (27)
- A window on the past: male ornamental plumage reveals the quality of their early-life environment (2013) (26)
- Phenotype–environment matching in sand fleas (2015) (26)
- Testing Thayer's hypothesis: can camouflage work by distraction? (2008) (25)
- Relative advantages of dichromatic and trichromatic color vision in camouflage breaking (2017) (25)
- Animal Camouflage: Plate section (2011) (24)
- Introduction Animal camouflage : current issues and new perspectives (2009) (24)
- Drosophila melanogaster cloak their eggs with pheromones, which prevents cannibalism (2019) (24)
- Individual egg camouflage is influenced by microhabitat selection and use of nest materials in ground-nesting birds (2018) (23)
- The appearance of mimetic Heliconius butterflies to predators and conspecifics (2018) (22)
- Nest covering in plovers: How modifying the visual environment influences egg camouflage (2016) (21)
- The role of stripe orientation in target capture success (2015) (21)
- Rock pool fish use a combination of colour change and substrate choice to improve camouflage (2018) (20)
- Rethinking visual supernormal stimuli in cuckoos: visual modeling of host and parasite signals (2011) (20)
- Bird brood parasitism (2013) (19)
- Diversity in warning coloration is easily recognized by avian predators (2017) (18)
- Camouflage strategies interfere differently with observer search images (2018) (18)
- The protective value of conspicuous signals is not impaired by shape, size, or position asymmetry (2009) (18)
- The adaptive value of camouflage and colour change in a polymorphic prawn (2018) (18)
- Brood Parasitism Is Linked to Egg Pattern Diversity within and among Species of Australian Passerines (2016) (17)
- Eggshell pigmentation in the blue tit: male quality matters (2017) (17)
- Through predators’ eyes - phenotype-environment associations in shore crab coloration at different spatial scales (2017) (16)
- Colour change and behavioural choice facilitate chameleon prawn camouflage against different seaweed backgrounds (2019) (16)
- Diet, development and the optimization of warning signals in post-metamorphic green and black poison frogs (2013) (15)
- Anti-Predator Coloration and Behaviour: A Longstanding Topic with Many Outstanding Questions (2015) (15)
- Higher-level pattern features provide additional information to birds when recognizing and rejecting parasitic eggs (2019) (14)
- Colour polymorphism in the coconut crab (Birgus latro) (2018) (14)
- Ship noise inhibits colour change, camouflage, and anti-predator behaviour in shore crabs (2020) (13)
- Animal Camouflage: Animal camouflage (2011) (13)
- Function and mechanisms (2011) (13)
- Insect herbivory may cause changes in the visual properties of leaves and affect the camouflage of herbivores to avian predators (2017) (13)
- Latitudinal variation in biophysical characteristics of avian eggshells to cope with differential effects of solar radiation (2018) (12)
- Colour change in a structural ornament is related to individual quality, parasites and mating patterns in the blue tit (2018) (12)
- Discolouring the Amazon Rainforest: how deforestation is affecting butterfly coloration (2020) (11)
- Body size but not warning signal luminance influences predation risk in recently metamorphosed poison frogs (2015) (11)
- Rock pool gobies change their body pattern in response to background features (2017) (11)
- No evidence of quantitative signal honesty across species of aposematic burnet moths (Lepidoptera: Zygaenidae) (2018) (10)
- Does coevolution with a shared parasite drive hosts to partition their defences among species? (2017) (9)
- Evolutionary Ecology: Knowing How to Hide Your Eggs (2013) (9)
- Sex differences but no evidence of quantitative honesty in the warning signals of six‐spot burnet moths (Zygaena filipendulae L.)* (2018) (8)
- Colour change and behavioural choice facilitate chameleon prawn camouflage against different seaweed backgrounds (2019) (8)
- The Size, Symmetry, and Color Saturation of a Male Guppy’s Ornaments Forecast His Resistance to Parasites (2020) (7)
- Commercial Harvesting Has Driven the Evolution of Camouflage in an Alpine Plant (2020) (7)
- Evolutionary Ecology: Insect Mothers Control Their Egg Colours (2015) (6)
- Variable crab camouflage patterns defeat search image formation (2021) (5)
- Sensory Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior (2010) (5)
- Egg spotting pattern in common cuckoos and their great reed warbler hosts: a century perspective (2017) (5)
- Parental phenotype not predator cues influence egg warning coloration and defence levels (2018) (4)
- The colours of animals: from Wallace to the present day. I. Cryptic coloration (2008) (4)
- The Sensory Ecology of Birds. Oxford Avian Biology Series. By Graham R. Martin. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. $95.00 (hardcover); $45.95 (paper). xvi + 296 p.; ill.; index. ISBN: 978-0-19-969453-2 (hc); 978-0-19-969454-9 (pb). 2017. (2019) (4)
- Animal Camouflage: Contributors (2011) (4)
- What is camouflage through distractive markings? A reply to Merilaita et al. (2013) (2013) (4)
- The conspicuousness of the toxic Heliconius butterflies across time and habitat (2020) (3)
- Invasive Egg Predators and Food Availability Interactively Affect Maternal Investment in Egg Chemical Defense (2018) (3)
- Horse vision and obstacle visibility in horseracing (2020) (3)
- Confusion and illusion: understanding visual traits and behavior. A comment on Kelley and Kelley (2014) (2)
- A field test for frequency-dependent selection on mimetic colour patterns in Heliconius butterflies (2014) (2)
- When to attack defended prey? A comment on Skelhorn et al. (2016) (2)
- Hosts elevate either within-clutch consistency or between-clutch distinctiveness of egg phenotypes in defence against brood parasites (2021) (2)
- Using camouflage for conservation: colour change in juvenile European lobster (2018) (2)
- Colour polymorphism in the coconut crab (Birgus latro) (2017) (1)
- Supplementary material from "Camouflage strategies interfere differently with observer search images" (2018) (1)
- Different ontogenetic trajectories of body colour, pattern and crypsis in two sympatric intertidal crab species (2020) (1)
- Generalist camouflage can be more successful than microhabitat specialisation in natural environments (2020) (1)
- Concealing Coloration in Animals Concealing Coloration in Animals. By Judy Diamond & Alan B. Bond. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press (2013). Pp. x + 271. Price $29.95. (2013) (1)
- Motion dazzle and the effects of target patterning on capture success (2014) (1)
- Supplementary data for: Improved camouflage through ontogenetic colour change confers reduced detection risk in shore crabs (2019) (1)
- Supplementary material from "Shape matters: animal colour patterns as signals of individual quality" (2017) (1)
- Evolution: Predator versus Parasite (2014) (0)
- Stars of the Tactile World (2021) (0)
- Electric Attraction (2021) (0)
- Secret Worlds (2021) (0)
- Detection of cryptic targets in avian vision: A field study (2005) (0)
- Cone Catch Colour Testing Photos (2015) (0)
- Background matching and disruptive coloration as habitat-specific strategies for camouflage (2019) (0)
- Avian vision models and field experiments determine the survival value of peppered moth camouflage (2018) (0)
- Anthropogenic noise may impair the mating behaviour of the Shore Crab Carcinus Maenas (2022) (0)
- Factors that affect tracking of occluded target motion (2012) (0)
- A Plethora of Senses (2021) (0)
- The role of stripe orientation in target capture success (2015) (0)
- Individual egg camouflage is influenced by microhabitat selection and use of nest materials in ground-nesting birds (2018) (0)
- The ecology of multiple colour defences (2016) (0)
- No evidence of quantitative signal honesty across species of aposematic 1 burnet moths ( Lepidoptera : Zygaenidae ) 2 Running title : Testing signal honesty across burnet moths 3 (2018) (0)
- Exchanging messages between plants and animals (2013) (0)
- Imperfect camouflage : how to hide in a variable 1 world ? 2 (2019) (0)
- Disruptive ecological selection on a mating cue Supplementary data tml (2012) (0)
- Variable crab camouflage patterns defeat search image formation (2021) (0)
- Smelling in Stereo (2006) (0)
- Eggshell pigmentation in the blue tit: male quality matters (2017) (0)
- Insect herbivory may cause changes in the visual properties of leaves and affect the camouflage of herbivores to avian predators (2017) (0)
- Quantifying camouflage: how to predict detectability from appearance (2017) (0)
- Improvement of individual camouflage through background choice in ground-nesting birds (2017) (0)
- Sensing in the Anthropocene (2021) (0)
- Shape, colour plasticity, and habitat use indicate morph-specific camouflage strategies in a marine shrimp (2016) (0)
- For My Eyes Only (2021) (0)
- The adaptive value of camouflage and colour change in a polymorphic prawn (2018) (0)
- Generalist camouflage can be more successful than microhabitat specialisation in natural environments (2021) (0)
- Supplementary material from "Divergence in cryptic leaf colour provides local camouflage in an alpine plant" (2017) (0)
- Animal behaviour Phenotype – environment matching in sand fleas (2015) (0)
- Methods and Mechanisms of Motion Dazzle (2014) (0)
- Color in camouflage, mimicry, and warning signals (2015) (0)
- Singing Rats and Sonar Bats (2021) (0)
- Homing Turtles and Animal Magnetism (2021) (0)
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