Publications

Cedric P. van den Berg, John A. Endler, Daniel E. Papinczak, Karen L. Cheney, Using colour pattern edge contrast statistics to predict detection speed and success in triggerfish (Rhinecanthus aculeatus), Journal of Experimental Biology, https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.244677

Cedric P. van den Berg, John A. Endler, Karen L. Cheney (2022), Signal detectability and boldness are not the same: the function of defensive colouration in nudibranchs is distance-dependent, bioRxiv, https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.12.20.521213.

Cedric P. van den Berg, John A. Endler, Karen L. Cheney (2022), Highly defended nudibranchs do not ‘escape’ to visually diverse background habitats, bioRxiv, https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.12.13.520332

Karen L. Cheney, Jemma Hudson, Fanny de Busserolles, Martin Luehrmann, Abigail Shaugnessy, Cedric P. van den Berg, Naomi F. Green, N. Justin Marshall, Fabio Cortesi (2022), Seeing Picasso: an investigation into the visual system of the triggerfish Rhinecanthus aculeatus, Journal of Experimental Biology, https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.243907.

Anne E. Winters, Weili Chan, Andrew M. White, Cedric P. van den Berg, Mary J. Garson, Karen L. Cheney (2021), Weapons or deterrents? Nudibranch molluscs use distinct ecological modes of chemical defence against predators, Journal of Animal Ecology, https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.13643

Weili Chan, Abigail E.P.Shaughnessy, Cedric P. van den Berg, Mary J. Garson & Karen L. Cheney (2021), The Validity of Brine Shrimp (Artemia Sp.) Toxicity Assays to Assess the Ecological Function of Marine Natural Products, Journal of Chemical ecology, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10886-021-01264-z

Cedric P. van den Berg (2020), Investigating Defensive Colouration in Nudibranch Molluscs using a Novel Analytical Framework for the Study of Animal Colour Patterns​​​​​​​, PhD thesis, https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/328925391.pdf

Cedric P. van den Berg, Michelle Hollenkamp, Laurie J. Mitchell, Erin J. Watson, Naomi F. Green, N. Justin Marshall, Karen L. Cheney (2020), More than noise: Context-dependant luminance contrast discrimination in a coral reef fish (Rhinecanthus aculeatus). Journal of Experimental Biology, https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.232090.

Monique G.G. Grol, Julie Vercelloni, Tania M. Kenyon, Elisa Bayraktarov, Cedric P. van den Berg, Daniel Haris, Jennifer A. Loder, Morana Mihaljević, Phebe I. Rowland, Chris M. Roelfsema (2020), Conservation value of a subtropical reef in south-eastern Queensland, Australia, highlighted by citizen-science efforts. Marine and Freshwater Research, https://doi.org/10.1071/MF19170.

Carmen RB da Silva, Cedric P. van den Berg, Nicolas D Condon, Cynthia Riginos, Robbie S Wilson, Karen L Cheney (2020), Intertidal gobies acclimate rate of luminance change for background matching with shifts in seasonal temperature. Journal of Animal Evology. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.13226

Cedric P. van den Berg*, Jolyon Troscianko*, John A. Endler, N. Justin Marshall, Karen L. Cheney (2020), Quantitative Colour Pattern Analysis (QCPA): A Comprehensive Framework for the Analysis of Colour Patterns in Nature. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.13328. *Joint first authors

Winters, A. E., Wilson, N. G., van den Berg, C. P., How, M. J., Garson, M. J., Endler. J. A., Marshall, N. J., & Cheney, K. L. (2018), Toxicity and taste: unequal chemical defences in a mimicry ring. Proceedings of Royal Society of London, B-Biological Sciences, 285 (1880): 20180457, https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2018.0457.

Green, N. F., Urquhart, H. H., van den Berg, C. P., Marshall, N. J., Cheney, K. L. (2018), Pattern edges improve predator learning of aposematic signals. Behavioral Ecology, 29 (6): 1481-1486, https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/ary089.