Moritz Lürig

The paper analyzes 43 years of plumage color data from tawny owls to show that intra-morph color variation is dynamic and driven by differential selection pressures between brown and gray morphs.

This study shows that nutritional resources, not habitat background, primarily influence pigmentation in freshwater isopods, with specific amino acids and elemental ratios driving the expression of cryptic coloration.

The paper uses computer vision to analyze wing color patterns in Nymphalid butterflies, finding that aposematism is the dominant axis of phenotypic diversification.

BioEncoder is a metric learning toolkit designed to improve image classification in biodiversity datasets by focusing on data point relationships rather than class separability.