Disruptive coloration provides camouflage independent of background matching

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 273, Issue 1600, 2006, Pages 2427-2432

  Schaefer, H Martin ^a   Stobbe, Nina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anti predator defences; Colour vision; Crypsis; Natural selection; Prey recognition

Indexed keywords

ANTIPREDATOR DEFENSE; BIRD; COLOR; CONCEALMENT BEHAVIOR; CRYPSIS; EVOLUTION; HETEROGENEITY; MOTH; NATURAL SELECTION; PREDATION;

ARTICLE; BODY IMAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFENSE MECHANISM; HABITAT SELECTION; MOTH; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PREDATOR AVOIDANCE; PREY SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL RATE;

AVES; LEPIDOPTERA;

EID: 33748959182     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2006.3615     Document Type: Article

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