Disruptive coloration and habitat use by seahorses [PDF]
Neotropical Ichthyology, 2019 Predation avoidance is a primary factor influencing survival. Therefore, any trait that affects the risk of predation, such as camouflage, is expected to be under selection pressure.
Michele Duarte +3 more
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Background matching and disruptive coloration as habitat-specific strategies for camouflage. [PDF]
Sci Rep, 2019 AbstractCamouflage is a key defence across taxa and frequently critical to survival. A common strategy is background matching, resembling the colour and pattern of the environment. This approach, however, may be ineffective in complex habitats where matching one patch may lead to increased visibility in other patches. In contrast, disruptive coloration,
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Disruptive coloration provides camouflage independent of background matching. [PDF]
Proc Biol Sci, 2006 Natural selection shapes the evolution of anti-predator defences, such as camouflage. It is currently contentious whether crypsis and disruptive coloration are alternative mechanisms of camouflage or whether they are interrelated anti-predator defences. Disruptively coloured prey is characterized by highly contrasting patterns to conceal the body shape,
Schaefer HM, Stobbe N.
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Effects of Pinglu Canal Construction on Camouflage in Two Sesarmid Crab Species [PDF]
BiologyCanal construction activities alter the visual characteristics of natural habitats, which in turn impairs the camouflage effectiveness of resident animals.
Binyu Zhai +11 more
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Role of body size and shape in animal camouflage [PDF]
Ecology and EvolutionAnimal camouflage serves a dual purpose in that it enhances both predation efficiency and anti‐predation strategies, such as background matching, disruptive coloration, countershading, and masquerade, for predators and prey, respectively.
Hongmin Yu, Zhixue Lin, Fanrong Xiao
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Disruptive coloration and background pattern matching
Nature, 2005 Effective camouflage renders a target indistinguishable from irrelevant background objects. Two interrelated but logically distinct mechanisms for this are background pattern matching (crypsis) and disruptive coloration: in the former, the animal's colours are a random sample of the background; in the latter, bold contrasting colours on the animal's ...
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Canal Construction Disrupts Camouflage in Two Sympatric Estuarine Crab Species [PDF]
Ecology and EvolutionEstuarine ecosystems provide essential habitats for fiddler crabs, whose survival heavily relies on background‐matching camouflage. Anthropogenic modifications such as canal construction can alter the visual properties of these habitats, yet direct ...
Yiran Huang +6 more
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Author Correction: Crypsis by background matching and disruptive coloration as drivers of substrate occupation in sympatric Amazonian bark praying mantises [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2023 João Vitor de Alcantara Viana +8 more
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Unexpected Encounter: A New Genus of Orthosiini (Noctuidae: Hadeninae) Revealed by Tit Predation in Late-Winter Baihuashan National Nature Reserve, Beijing [PDF]
InsectsDuring a late-winter field survey in Baihuashan National Nature Reserve, Beijing, several noctuid moths were observed flying during the daytime at low temperatures and being actively preyed upon by Marsh tits, which removed the heads and wings of ...
Jun Wu +3 more
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Cephalopod dynamic camouflage: bridging the continuum between background matching and disruptive coloration. [PDF]
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 2009 Individual cuttlefish, octopus and squid have the versatile capability to use body patterns for background matching and disruptive coloration. We define—qualitatively and quantitatively—the chief characteristics of the three major body pattern types used for camouflage by cephalopods: uniform and mottle patterns for background matching, and disruptive ...
Hanlon RT +5 more
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