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ArticleEcology and evolution2025

Factors Driving Background Choice in Scorpionfish.

Leonie John, Matteo Santon, Nico K Michiels

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Article in Ecology and evolution, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Leonie JohnAnimal Evolutionary Ecology, Institute of Evolution and Ecology University of Tübingen Tübingen Germany.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8167-4132
Matteo SantonEcology of Vision Group, School of Biological Sciences University of Bristol Bristol UK.
Nico K MichielsAnimal Evolutionary Ecology, Institute of Evolution and Ecology University of Tübingen Tübingen Germany.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

For a successful hunt, marine ambush predators such as scorpionfish need to be well camouflaged to deceive their prey. When the natural environment is heterogeneous, one strategy to maintain camouflage is choosing backgrounds to achieve better crypsis. We tested if two Mediterranean scorpionfish species,

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background matchingcamouflagedisruptive colourationheterogeneous habitatvisual modelling

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PMID40740793
PMCPMC12304078

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