Disruptive coloration, crypsis and edge detection in early visual processing

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 273, Issue 1598, 2006, Pages 2141-2147

  Stevens, Martin ^a   Cuthill, Innes C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Background matching; Camouflage; Disruptive coloration; Edge detection; Vision

Indexed keywords

BIRD; COLOR; COLOR MORPH; CRYPSIS; PREDATION RISK; VISION; VISUAL ANALYSIS;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; BIRD; COLOR VISION; NONHUMAN; PREDATION; PREDATOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALIA; AVES; LEPIDOPTERA;

EID: 33748272300     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2006.3556     Document Type: Article

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