How colorful are birds? Evolution of the avian plumage color gamut

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1042-1052

  Stoddard, Mary Caswell ^a   Prum, Richard O ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

bird vision; flower; gamut; morphospace; plumage; structural color; tetrahedral color space

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; BIRD; COLONIZATION; COLOR; COMMUNICATION BEHAVIOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FLORAL TRAIT; PIGMENT; PLUMAGE; SAMPLING; TAXONOMY; VISION;

AVES;

EID: 80052207539     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: 14657279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arr088     Document Type: Article

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