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Martin Stevens is affiliated with the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom. Their research focuses primarily on Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a strong emphasis on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Within these broad fields, Stevens has contributed notably to subfields including Ecology, Genetics, Social Psychology, and Global and Planetary Change.

The main topics covered in Stevens' work span Animal Behavior and Reproduction, Plant and Animal Studies, Crustacean Biology and Ecology, Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior, Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies, Animal and Plant Science Education, and Cephalopods and Marine Biology.

Stevens has published multiple papers in various scientific venues, with frequent publications in Behavioral Ecology and Current Biology. Other notable venues where their work appears include Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, and Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences.

Recent papers by Martin Stevens include:

  • Commercial Harvesting Has Driven the Evolution of Camouflage in an Alpine Plant, 2020, Current Biology
  • Finding a signal hidden among noise: how can predators overcome camouflage strategies?, 2020, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Variable crab camouflage patterns defeat search image formation, 2021, Communications Biology
  • Ship noise inhibits colour change, camouflage, and anti-predator behaviour in shore crabs, 2020, Current Biology
  • Discolouring the Amazon Rainforest: how deforestation is affecting butterfly coloration, 2020, Biodiversity and Conservation

Stevens frequently collaborates with other researchers. Notable co-authors include Rafael C. Duarte, Jolyon Troscianko, Tom Tregenza, Samuel D. Green, and Emmanuelle S. Briolat.

Best Publications

  • Animal camouflage: current issues and new perspectives

    Martin Stevens;Sami Merilaita

  • The biology of color

    Innes C. Cuthill;William L. Allen;Kevin Arbuckle;Barbara Caspers

  • Using digital photography to study animal coloration

    Martin Stevens;C. Alejandro Párraga;Innes C. Cuthill;Julian C. Partridge

  • Disruptive coloration and background pattern matching.

    Innes C. Cuthill;Martin Stevens;Jenna Sheppard;Tracey Maddocks

  • Image calibration and analysis toolbox – a free software suite for objectively measuring reflectance, colour and pattern

    Jolyon Troscianko;Martin Stevens

  • Sensory Ecology, Behaviour, and Evolution

    Martin Stevens

  • Speed versus accuracy in collective decision making.

    Nigel R. Franks;Anna Dornhaus;Jon P. Fitzsimmons;Martin Stevens

  • Defining disruptive coloration and distinguishing its functions.

    Martin Stevens;Sami Merilaita

  • Linking the evolution and form of warning coloration in nature

    Martin Stevens;Graeme D. Ruxton

  • The role of eyespots as anti-predator mechanisms, principally demonstrated in the Lepidoptera.

    Martin Stevens

  • Visual modeling shows that avian host parents use multiple visual cues in rejecting parasitic eggs

    Claire N. Spottiswoode;Martin Stevens

  • Animal Camouflage: Mechanisms and Function

    Martin Stevens;Sami Merilaita

  • Pattern mimicry of host eggs by the common cuckoo, as seen through a bird's eye

    Mary Caswell Stoddard;Martin Stevens

  • Animal Camouflage: Plate section

    Martin Stevens;Sami Merilaita

  • Camouflage through colour change: mechanisms, adaptive value and ecological significance

    Rafael C. Duarte;Rafael C. Duarte;Augusto A. V. Flores;Martin Stevens

  • Avian vision and the evolution of egg color mimicry in the common cuckoo.

    Mary Caswell Stoddard;Martin Stevens

  • The key role of behaviour in animal camouflage.

    Martin Stevens;Graeme D. Ruxton

  • Disruptive ecological selection on a mating cue

    Richard M. Merrill;Richard W. R. Wallbank;Vanessa Bull;Patricio C. A. Salazar

  • Conspicuousness, not eye mimicry, makes "eyespots" effective antipredator signals

    Martin Stevens;Chloe J. Hardman;Claire L. Stubbins

  • Camouflage predicts survival in ground-nesting birds

    Jolyon Troscianko;Jared Wilson-Aggarwal;Martin Stevens;Claire N. Spottiswoode

  • Visual mimicry of host nestlings by cuckoos

    Naomi E. Langmore;Martin Stevens;Golo Maurer;Robert Heinsohn

Frequent Co-Authors

Claire N. Spottiswoode
Claire N. Spottiswoode University of Cape Town
Innes C. Cuthill
Innes C. Cuthill University of Bristol
Chris D. Jiggins
Chris D. Jiggins University of Cambridge
Graeme D. Ruxton
Graeme D. Ruxton University of St Andrews
Sami Merilaita
Sami Merilaita University of Turku
Jonathan D. Blount
Jonathan D. Blount University of Exeter
John Skelhorn
John Skelhorn Newcastle University
James P. Higham
James P. Higham New York University
Hang Sun
Hang Sun Chinese Academy of Sciences
Augusto A. V. Flores
Augusto A. V. Flores Universidade de São Paulo

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