Color Change, Phenotypic Plasticity, and Camouflage
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Color Change, Phenotypic Plasticity, and Camouflage
Martin Stevens is Associate Professor of Sensory and Evolutionary Ecology at the University of Exeter. He did his PhD at Bristol University on bird vision and animal camouflage, and then undertook several fellowships at Cambridge University before moving to Exeter in 2013. His work has focussed on animal coloration, vision, and methods to quantify visual signals, especially image analyses. This...
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عنوان ژورنال: Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
سال: 2016
ISSN: 2296-701X
DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2016.00051