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María Del Carmen García-custodio

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Colour patch size and measurement error using reflectance spectrophotometry

2017

1 - Over the past twenty years, portable and relatively affordable spectrophotometers have greatly advanced the study of animal coloration. However, the small size of many colour patches poses methodological challenges that have not, to date, been assessed in the literature. Here, we tackle this issue for a reflectance spectrophotometry set-up widely used in ecology and evolution (the beam method). 2 - We reviewed the literature on animal coloration reporting the use of reflectance spectrophotometry to explore how the minimum measurable size of a colour patch is determined. We then used coloured plastic sheets to create artificial colour patches, and quantify the relationship between colour…

0106 biological sciencesObservational errorgenetic structuresmedicine.diagnostic_testEcological Modeling05 social sciencesAnimal coloration010603 evolutionary biology01 natural sciencesReflectivitySpectrophotometrymedicine0501 psychology and cognitive sciences050102 behavioral science & comparative psychologyBiological systemEcology Evolution Behavior and SystematicsMathematicsMethods in Ecology and Evolution
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2018

1. Over the past twenty years, portable and relatively affordable spectrophotometers have greatly advanced the study of animal coloration. However, the small size of many colour patches poses methodological challenges that have not, to date, been assessed in the literature. Here, we tackle this issue for a reflectance spectrophotometry set-up widely used in ecology and evolution (the beam method). 2. We reviewed the literature on animal coloration reporting the use of reflectance spectrophotometry to explore how the minimum measurable size of a colour patch is determined. We then used coloured plastic sheets to create artificial colour patches, and quantify the relationship between colour p…

medicine and health caregenetic structuresPodarcis muralisMedicineLife sciences
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