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Avian Ecology in Fragmented Cloud Forests of Peru

Research in Scientific American and Washington Post

by Ian Ausprey Sep 24, 2021
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My work on the ecological and evolutionary correlates of avian vision was recently published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences and covered by press in Scientific American and the Washington Post. This research depended on the heroic efforts of Stanley Ritland, who painstakingly measured eyes from preserved museum specimens for his unpublished dissertation at the University of Chicago in 1982.

 

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Relative eye size across the Avian Tree of Life.
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