Congrats first author Caroline Brighton; our new paper is out in @royalsocietypublishing.org Interface. All about bird collisions with anthropogenic objects. You can read it here: royalsocietypublishing.org/rsif/article...
So we checked this using reflectance data across UV, visible, and near‑infrared from 300+ species (🐦🐻 🐊 🐍🐢🕷️🥚)
Result? UV-visible reflectance plays nicely together, but visible-near IR breaks the rules. And does so differently across taxa.
Visual signals and thermal properties don’t have to be on speaking terms.
How are different parts of the solar spectrum linked in animal reflectance? That is the question we asked in our latest study led by @jgoldenbergevo.bsky.social, published in @journal-evo.bsky.social
open access link: dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3...
Back again with more cool mammal updates, this time in maybe the coolest mammal - the platypus!
Thrilled to share the second chapter of my PhD, out today in Biology Letters. We found spherical hollow melanosomes in the fur of the platypus, maybe a total vertebrate first!
doi.org/10.1098/rsbl...
My lab is seeking a #postdoc for a 3-year project on Pilbara leaf-nosed #bat 🦇 conservation, addressing climate change vulnerability using physiological, ecological, & modelling approaches.
Apply now: murdoch.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/MurdochCaree...
Solar reflectance across ultraviolet, visible, and near-infrared wavelengths was analyzed in integuments and eggs of 322 species. We found consistent positive correlations between UV and visible refl...
Such a great team on this 😎
@jessica-dobson.bsky.social @gdebruyn.bsky.social @michaelnicolai.bsky.social @lilianadalba.bsky.social & all others not here
We often assume that reflectance is “spectrally well‑behaved.”
If an animal is bright or dark in the (human) visible, surely the rest of the spectrum just… follows along?
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
