Sebastiano De Bona

TL;DR: The differences among deimatism, aposematism, and forms of mimicry, and their ecological and evolutionary implications are discussed, and outstanding questions critical to progress are highlighted.

TL;DR: The eye-mimicry hypothesis explains the results better than the conspicuousness hypothesis and is thus likely to be an important mechanism behind the evolution of butterfly eyespots.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that densities at various scales interact to determine dispersal, and suggests that dispersal trade-offs differ across life stages, as well as the importance of habitat quality and competition over resources.

TL;DR: The results suggest that deimatism does not require predator learning to afford protection, but that a predator can learn to expect the display and subsequently avoid it or ignore it.

TL;DR: It is argued that instead of being analyzed using traditional nonparametric statistics or a series of separate analyses split by response categories, this kind of data can be more holistically analyzed using a generalized linear mixed model (GLMM) framework extended to binomial response trees.