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Data To Accompany: How Does Rapid Body Color Change Affect The Conspicuity Of Lizards To Their Predators And Conspecifics?, Lindsey Swierk, Andrés Rojo
Data To Accompany: How Does Rapid Body Color Change Affect The Conspicuity Of Lizards To Their Predators And Conspecifics?, Lindsey Swierk, Andrés Rojo
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Predator-prey interactions drive the evolution of prey visual camouflage, but prey species also often require salience to their conspecifics for social signaling purposes. Whether rapid body color change can help to dynamically balance conspecific visibility and predator concealment, in the eyes of each group’s respective visual systems, remains poorly understood. We tested this question using water anoles (Anolis aquaticus), a small lizard that uses rapid dark-to-light body color change to visually camouflage itself from its avian predators across diverse microhabitats. We used digital image analysis and visual modeling to assess the effectiveness of color-matching camouflage in A. aquaticus …
Broome County Inventory Database, Julian Shepherd
Broome County Inventory Database, Julian Shepherd
Biological Sciences Faculty Scholarship
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