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Adrian G. Dyer

Adrian G. Dyer

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
47
Citations
8153
World Ranking
4449
National Ranking
351

Overview

Adrian G. Dyer is affiliated with RMIT University in Australia, where their research primarily spans the Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their work focuses on several specialized subfields including Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics, Plant Science, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, and Insect Science. The scientist's research topics cover a broad spectrum involving Plant and Animal Studies, Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior, Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research, Insect and Pesticide Research, Plant Parasitism and Resistance, Animal and Plant Science Education, and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies.

They have contributed to numerous publications across various venues, with frequent contributions in:

  • PLoS ONE
  • Frontiers in Plant Science
  • Journal of Comparative Physiology A
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored include:

  • "Tracking individual honeybees among wildflower clusters with computer vision-facilitated pollinator monitoring," published in 2021 in PLoS ONE
  • "Fragmentary Blue: Resolving the Rarity Paradox in Flower Colors," published in 2021 in Frontiers in Plant Science
  • "Rewardlessness in orchids: how frequent and how rewardless?" published in 2020 in Plant Biology
  • "Fly pollination drives convergence of flower coloration," published in 2021 in New Phytologist
  • "Spatial Monitoring and Insect Behavioural Analysis Using Computer Vision for Precision Pollination," published in 2022 in International Journal of Computer Vision

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Jair E. García
  • Scarlett R. Howard
  • Alan Dorin
  • Mani Shrestha
  • Martin Burd

Best Publications

  • Psychophysics: bees trade off foraging speed for accuracy.

    Lars Chittka;Adrian Geoffrey Dyer;Adrian Geoffrey Dyer;Fiola Bock;Anna Dornhaus;Anna Dornhaus

  • Fine colour discrimination requires differential conditioning in bumblebees

    Adrian Geoffrey Dyer;Adrian Geoffrey Dyer;Lars Chittka;Lars Chittka

  • Biological significance of distinguishing between similar colours in spectrally variable illumination: bumblebees ( Bombus terrestris ) as a case study

    Adrian Geoffrey Dyer;Adrian Geoffrey Dyer;Lars Chittka;Lars Chittka

  • An Integrative Framework for the Appraisal of Coloration in Nature

    Darrell J. Kemp;Marie E. Herberstein;Leo J. Fleishman;John A. Endler;John A. Endler

  • Comparative psychophysics of bumblebee and honeybee colour discrimination and object detection.

    Adrian Geoffrey Dyer;Johannes Spaethe;Sabina Prack

  • Parallel evolution of angiosperm colour signals: common evolutionary pressures linked to hymenopteran vision

    Adrian G. Dyer;Adrian G. Dyer;Skye Boyd-Gerny;Stephen McLoughlin;Marcello G. P. Rosa

  • Bees associate warmth with floral colour

    Adrian Geoffrey Dyer;Heather Whitney;Sarah E Arnold;Beverley J Glover

  • Functional significance of the optical properties of flowers for visual signalling.

    Casper J van der Kooi;Adrian G Dyer;Peter G Kevan;Klaus Lunau

  • Limits to the salience of ultraviolet: lessons from colour vision in bees and birds

    Peter G Kevan;Lars Chittka;Adrian Geoffrey Dyer

  • Numerical ordering of zero in honey bees

    Scarlett R. Howard;Aurore Avarguès-Weber;Jair E. Garcia;Andrew D. Greentree

  • Honeybee (Apis mellifera) vision can discriminate between and recognise images of human faces

    Adrian Geoffrey Dyer;Adrian Geoffrey Dyer;Christa Neumeyer;Lars Chittka

  • Aversive reinforcement improves visual discrimination learning in free-flying honeybees

    Aurore Avarguès-Weber;Aurore Avarguès-Weber;Aurore Avarguès-Weber;Maria G. de Brito Sanchez;Maria G. de Brito Sanchez;Martin Giurfa;Martin Giurfa;Adrian G. Dyer

  • Shades of red: Bird-pollinated flowers target the specific colour discrimination abilities of avian vision

    Mani Shrestha;Adrian Geoffrey Dyer;Adrian Geoffrey Dyer;S Boyd-Gerny;Bob B M Wong

  • Bumblebees (Bombus terrestris) sacrifice foraging speed to solve difficult colour discrimination tasks.

    Adrian Geoffrey Dyer;Adrian Geoffrey Dyer;Lars Chittka;Lars Chittka

  • Numerical cognition in honeybees enables addition and subtraction

    Scarlett R. Howard;Aurore Avarguès-Weber;Jair E. Garcia;Andrew D. Greentree

  • Diversity of speed-accuracy strategies benefits social insects

    James G Burns;Adrian Geoffrey Dyer

  • Colour processing in complex environments: insights from the visual system of bees.

    Adrian G. Dyer;Angelique C. Paulk;David H. Reser

  • Mutations perturbing petal cell shape and anthocyanin synthesis influence bumblebee perception of Antirrhinum majus flower colour

    Adrian Geoffrey Dyer;Heather Whitney;Sarah E J Arnold;Sarah E J Arnold;Beverley J Glover

  • Configural processing enables discrimination and categorization of face-like stimuli in honeybees

    Aurore Avarguès-Weber;Aurore Avarguès-Weber;G. Portelli;G. Portelli;J. Benard;J. Benard;A. Dyer

  • Community-wide integration of floral colour and scent in a Mediterranean scrubland

    Aphrodite Kantsa;Robert A Raguso;Adrian G. Dyer;Adrian G. Dyer;Stefanos P. Sgardelis

  • The interaction of temperature and sucrose concentration on foraging preferences in bumblebees

    Heather Whitney;Adrian Geoffrey Dyer;Adrian Geoffrey Dyer;Lars Chittka;Sean A Rands

  • Bumblebee search time without ultraviolet light

    Adrian Geoffrey Dyer;Lars Chittka;Lars Chittka

  • Flower colour and phylogeny along an altitudinal gradient in the Himalayas of Nepal

    Mani Raj Shrestha;Adrian Geoffrey Dyer;Adrian Geoffrey Dyer;Prakash Bhattarai;Prakash Bhattarai;Martin Christopher Burd;Martin Christopher Burd

  • Disentangling the role of floral sensory stimuli in pollination networks

    Aphrodite Kantsa;Robert A. Raguso;Adrian G. Dyer;Jens M. Olesen

  • The mysterious cognitive abilities of bees: why models of visual processing need to consider experience and individual differences in animal performance

    Adrian G. Dyer

  • Ambient temperature influences Australian native stingless bee (Trigona carbonaria) preference for warm nectar.

    Melanie Norgate;Skye Boyd-Gerny;Vera Simonov;Marcello G. P. Rosa

Frequent Co-Authors

Martin Burd
Martin Burd Monash University
Lars Chittka
Lars Chittka Queen Mary University of London
Martin Giurfa
Martin Giurfa Sorbonne University
Marcello G. P. Rosa
Marcello G. P. Rosa Monash University
Klaus Lunau
Klaus Lunau Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Bob B. M. Wong
Bob B. M. Wong Monash University
John A. Endler
John A. Endler Deakin University
Thomas Tscheulin
Thomas Tscheulin University of the Aegean
Dacheng Tao
Dacheng Tao Nanyang Technological University
Beverley J. Glover
Beverley J. Glover University of Cambridge

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