Tuning of color contrast signals to visual sensitivity maxima of tree shrews by three Bornean highland Nepenthes species

Plant Signaling and Behavior

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1267-1270

  Moran, Jonathan A ^a   Clarke, Charles ^b   Greenwood, Melinda ^c   Chin, Lijin ^b  

^a ROYAL ROADS UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Mutualism; Nepenthes; Pitcher plants; Tree shrews; Tupaia; Visual signaling

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; BORNEO; COLOR; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; PHYSIOLOGY; SARRACENIACEAE; SCANDENTIA; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; AREA UNDER CURVE; BORNEO; COLOR; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; SARRACENIACEAE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TUPAIIDAE;

EID: 85046983057     PISSN: 15592316     EISSN: 15592324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/psb.21661     Document Type: Article

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