While typically classified as either ‘structural’ or ‘pigmentary’, bio-optical tissues of terrestrial
animals are rarely homogeneous and typically contain both a structural material such as …

Variation in life‐history traits can have major impacts on the ecological and evolutionary
responses of populations to environmental change. Life‐history variation often results from trade…

Spiders are among the world’s most species-rich animal lineages, and their visual systems
are likewise highly diverse. These modular visual systems, composed of four pairs of image-…

A small but growing literature indicates that many animal colours are produced by combinations
of structural and pigmentary mechanisms. We investigated one such complex colour …

Jumping spiders (family Salticidae) are masters of miniature vision, achieving higher spatial
resolution in relation to body size than any other animal [1]. While most members of this …

Recent advances in nutritional ecology, particularly arising from Ecological Stoichiometry and
the Geometric Framework for nutrition, have resulted in greater theoretical coherence and …

Quantification of animal colors is important to a variety of fields of research, especially those
dealing with visual communication and sexual selection. Most animal colors are easily …

The role of plasticity in shaping adaptations is important to understanding the expression of
traits within individuals and the evolution of populations. With increasing human impacts on …

Color ornaments are often viewed as products of countervailing sexual and natural selection,
because more colorful, more attractive individuals may also be more conspicuous to …

Interactions between herbivorous insects and their host plants are a central component of
terrestrial food webs and a critical topic in agriculture, where a substantial fraction of potential …