ArticleEcology and evolution2012
Reduced predation risk for melanistic pygmy grasshoppers in post-fire environments.
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- The impact of wildfires on the diet of Podarcis lusitanicus revealed by DNA metabarcoding.PloS one · 2025Article
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- Enclosure Background Preferences Differ between Sexes and Color Morphs in the Gouldian Finch.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2023Article
- Fire as a driver and mediator of predator-prey interactions.Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2022Review
- Experimental evidence that matching habitat choice drives local adaptation in a wild population.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2020Article
- Background matching, disruptive coloration, and differential use of microhabitats in two neotropical grasshoppers with sexual dichromatism.Ecology and evolution · 2020Article
- The adaptive value of camouflage and colour change in a polymorphic prawn.Scientific reports · 2018Article
- On the role of sex differences for evolution in heterogeneous and changing fitness landscapes: insights from pygmy grasshoppers.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2018Review
- Shape, colour plasticity, and habitat use indicate morph-specific camouflage strategies in a marine shrimp.BMC evolutionary biology · 2016Article
- Colour Polymorphism Protects Prey Individuals and Populations Against Predation.Scientific reports · 2016Article
- Detection experiments with humans implicate visual predation as a driver of colour polymorphism dynamics in pygmy grasshoppers.BMC ecology · 2013Article
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Abstract
The existence of melanistic (black) color forms in many species represents interesting model systems that have played important roles for our understanding of selective processes, evolution of adaptations, and the maintenance of variation. A recent study reported on rapid evolutionary shifts in frequencies of the melanistic forms in replicated populations of Tetrix subulata pygmy grasshoppers; the incidence of the melanistic form was higher in recently burned areas with backgrounds blackened by fire than in nonburned areas, and it declined over time in postfire environments. Here, we tested the hypothesis that the frequency shifts of the black color variant were driven, at least in part, by changes in the selective regime imposed by visual predators. To study detectability of the melanistic form, we presented human "predators" with images of black grasshoppers and samples of the natural habitat on computer screens. We demonstrate that the protective value of black coloration differs between burnt and nonburnt environments and gradually increases in habitats that have been more blackened by fire. These findings support the notion that a black color pattern provides improved protection from visually oriented predators against blackened backgrounds and implicate camouflage and predation as important drivers of fire melanism in pygmy grasshoppers.
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