Natural levels of colour polymorphism reduce performance of visual predators searching for camouflaged prey

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 112, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 546-555

  Karpestam, Einat ^a   Merilaita, Sami ^b   Forsman, Anders ^a  

^a LINNAEUS UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b ÅBO AKADEMI UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Camouflage; Crypsis; Evolution; Predation; Search images; Tetrix subulata

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; COLOR MORPH; GRASSHOPPER; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MIMICRY; POLYMORPHISM; PREDATION; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; PREY LOCATION; SURVIVAL;

CAELIFERA; TETRIX SUBULATA;

EID: 84902551810     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/bij.12276     Document Type: Article

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