Artigos Científicos
Schirmer, S. C., Gawryszewski, F. M. (2026). Developmental plasticity of butterflies: a meta-analysis of temperature effects. Journal of Animal Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.70217.
Freire-Jr, JB, Ribeiro, IPS, Matos, ACL, Schirmer, SC, Santos, EG, Costa, FV, Gawryszewski, FM, Dyer, LA, Marinho-Filho, OJ, Togni, P. (2026). Concrete Jungle: habitat heterogeneity acts as an environmental filter on the multidimensional diversity of fruit-feeding butterflies in urban savannahs of the Cerrado biome. Urban Ecosystems. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11252-026-01951-3.
Silva, EML, Costa, FJV, Gawryszewski, FM, Nardoto, GB (2026). Isotopic evidence of Arthropod-based diet shaping feather ornamentation in Saffron Finches (Sicalis flaveola, Linnaeus, 1766). Isotopes in Environmental & Health Studies. https://doi.org/10.1080/10256016.2026.2665403.
Castilho, LB, Gawryszewski, FM (2025). Predator coloration and prey vision: the foraging cost to predators. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00265-025-03638-9.
Rocha, PN, Gawryszewski, FM (2024). Foraging strategy as a route for sexual size dimorphism evolution. Ecology and Evolution, https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.70100.
Ribeiro, PHO, Frizzas, MR, Vaz-de-Mello, FZ, Gawryszewski, FM (2024). The evolution of body coloration in dung beetles: diel activity and sexual dimorphism. Evolutionary Ecology, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10682-024-10300-9.
Ximenes, N., Moraes, V., Rocha, DB, Gawryszewski, FM, and Willemart, R. (2023). The Influence of Substance Properties on Arthropod Chemical Defenses: A Meta-Analysis. Journal of Chemical Ecology , 1–10. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10886-023-01457-8
Hrncir, M., Gawryszewski, FM, Moraes, PZ de, and Pessoa, DMA (2023). Editorial: What sensory ecology might learn from landscape ecology? Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution , 11, 1198035. https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2023.1198035
Schirmer, SC, Gawryszewski, FM, Cardoso, MZ, and Pessoa, DMA 2023. Melanism and color saturation of butterfly assemblages: a comparison between a tropical rainforest and a xeric white forest. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution , DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2023.932755 .
Anjos, LE, Gawryszewski, FM, and Bessa, E. 2022. Water column use by reef fishes of different color patterns. Neotropical Ichthyology , DOI: 10.1590/1982-0224-2021-0101
Ferreira-Sousa, L., Rocha, PN, Motta. PC, and Gawryszewski, FM 2021. Shaped by the sun: the effect of exposure to sunlight on the evolution of spider bodies. Biology Letters , 17: 20210369, DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2021.0369 .
Mello ND, Sanchez LG, and Gawryszewski, FM 2021. Spatio-temporal color variation of arthropods and their environment. Evolutionary Ecology , DOI: 10.1007/s10682-021-10144-7. link: https://rdcu.be/cCwmI
Ximenes, N., and Gawryszewski, FM 2020. Conspicuous colors in a polymorphic orb-web spider: evidence of predator avoidance, but not of prey attraction. Animal Behavior , www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0003347220302657 . Watch a video presentation here .
Ximenes, N., Moraes, VS, Ortega, JCG, and Gawryszewski, FM 2020. Color lures in orb-weaving spiders: a meta-analysis. Behavioral Ecology , https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arz210.
Duarte, M., Gawryszewski, F. M., Ramineli, S., and Bessa, E. 2019. Disruptive coloration and habitat use by seahorses. Neotropical Ichthyology , http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1982-0224-20190064
Elias, MAM, Anker, A., Gawryszewski, FM 2019. Microhabitat use and body size drive the evolution of color patterns in snapping shrimps (Decapoda: Alpheidae: Alpheus). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society , https://doi.org/10.1093/biolinnean/blz152
Gawryszewski, FM, Sato, NM, and Miranda, HS 2019. Frequent fires alter tree architecture and impair reproduction of a common fire‐tolerant savanna tree. Plant Biology , https://doi.org/10.1111/plb.13038
Ximenes, N. and Gawryszewski, FM 2019. Prey and predators perceive orb-web spider conspicuousness differently: evaluating alternative hypotheses for color polymorphism evolution. Current Zoology , https://doi.org/10.1093/cz/zoy069
Gawryszewski, FM 2018. Color vision models: Some simulations, a general n‐dimensional model, and the color vision R package. Ecology and Evolution , https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.4288
Gawryszewski, FM, Calero-Torralbo, MA, Gillespie, RG, Rodríguez-Gironés, MA and Herberstein, ME 2017. Correlated evolution between coloration and ambush site in predators with visual prey lures. Evolution , DOI: 10.1111/evo.13271
Gawryszewski, F. M., Birch, D., Darrell, K.., Herberstein, ME 2015. Dissecting The Variation of a Visual Trait: The Proximate Basis of UV-Visible Reflectance In Crab Spiders (Thomisidae). Functional Ecology , DOI: 10.1111/1365-2435.12300
Umbers, K., Fabricant, S. Gawryszewski, FM, Seago, A., Herberstein, ME 2014. Reversible color change in Arthropoda. Biological Reviews , DOI: 10.1111/brv.12079
Gawryszewski, FM 2014. Evidence suggests that modified setae of the crab spiders Stephanopis spp. Fasten debris from the background. Zoomorphology , 133, 205-215, DOI: s00435-013-0213-4
Gawryszewski, FM, Motta, PC 2012. Coloration of the orb-web spider Gasteracantha cancriformis does not increase its foraging success. Ethology Ecology & Evolution, 24, 23-38. 03949370.2011.582044
Gawryszewski, FM, Llandres, AL, Herberstein, ME 2012. Relationship between coloration and body condition in a crab spider that lures pollinators. Journal of Experimental Biology , 215, 1128-1136. jeb.060558
Llandres, AL, Gawryszewski, FM, Heiling, AM, Herberstein, ME 2011. The effect of color variation in predators on the behavior of pollinators: Australian crab spiders and native bees. Ecological Entomology , 36, 72-81. j.1365-2311.2010.01246.x
Gawryszewski, FM, Motta, PC 2008. The silk tuft web decorations of the orb-weaver Gasteracantha cancriformis: testing the prey attraction and the web advertisement hypotheses. Behavior , 145, 277-295. 156853908783402911
Book Chapters
Gawryszewski, FM 2017. Anti-predator strategies. In: Carmen Vieira and Marcelo O. Gonzaga (ed.) Behavior and ecology of neotropical spiders: Contributions from the Neotropical Region. 1ed. Berlin, Heidelberg: Spinger-Verlag, pp 397-415, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65717-2_15
Herberstein, ME, Gawryszewski, FM 2013. UV and Camouflage in Crab Spiders (Thomisidae) . In: Wolfgang Nentwig. (Org.). Spider Ecophysiology. 1ed. Berlin, Heidelberg: Spinger-Verlag, 349-360. 978-3-642-33989-9_25
Software and R Packages
D’Angioli AM, Farias VM & Gawryszewski FM. (2026) Argiope: quantitative analysis, segmentation, and standardization of RGB and spectral imagery. Version 0.9.79. INPI Registry Number BR 512026002209-6. Free on the Microsoft Store: https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9N33VQRPGR9X
Gawryszewski, FM 2016. colourvision (available here: colourvision R package ). Color vision models, color spaces and color thresholds. Provides flexibility to build user-defined color vision models for n number of photoreceptor types. Also includes Vorobyev & Osorio (1998) Receiver Noise Limited models, Chittka (1992) color hexagon, and Endler & Mielke (2005) model. Models have been extended to accept any number of photoreceptor types.
Cite: Gawryszewski, FM 2018. Color vision models: Some simulations, a general n‐dimensional model, and the color vision R package. Ecology and Evolution, https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.4288
Dados em Repositórios
Ferreira-Sousa, L; Rocha, PN.; Motta, PC.; Gawryszewski, FM (2021), Shaped by the sun: the effect of exposure to sunlight on the evolution of spider bodies, Dryad, Dataset, https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.70rxwdbz8
Gawryszewski FM, Calero-Torralbo MA, Gillespie R, Rodriguez-Girones M, Herberstein ME (2017) Data from: Correlated evolution between colouration and ambush site in predators with visual prey lures. Dryad Digital Repository. http://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.8567b
Gawryszewski FM, Birch D, Kemp DJ, Herberstein ME (2014) Data from: Dissecting the variation of a visual trait: the proximate basis of UV-Visible reflectance in crab spiders (Thomisidae). Dryad Digital Repository. http://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.367d0
Teses e Dissertações
Schirmer, S.C. 2026. Evolução e Ecologia da Coloração Visível, Infravermelha e do Tamanho em Borboletas. Universidade de Brasília. Tese de Doutorado.
Golçalves, N.X. 2025. Estratégias de defesa em opiliões e outros artrópodes: uma abordagem integrada utilizando química, coloração e ecologia visual. Universidade de São Paulo. Tese de Doutorado.
Rocha, P.N. 2023. Evolução do Dimorfismo Sexual de Tamanho em Thomisidae (Araneae) e Trichonephila clavipes (Araneae: Araneidae).Universidade de Brasília. Dissertação de Mestrado.
Goulart, C.M. 2023. Sinalização intraespecífica em juvenis de Oxyopsis sp. (Mantodea). Universidade de Brasília. Dissertação de Mestrado.
Elias, M.A.M. 2023. Ecologia evolutiva da coloração aposemática em sapos venenosos neotropicais (Anura: Dendrobatidae) e suas relações com a conservação das espécies. Universidade Federal de Goiás. Tese de Doutorado.
Elias, M.A.M. 2019. Taxonomic revision of Alpheus normanni Kingsley, 1878 and correlated evolution between colour pattern and microhabitat use in the American snapping shrimps (Malacostraca, Decapoda, Alpheidae, Alpheus). Universidade Federal de Goiás. Dissertação de Mestrado.
Curado, A.C.S.F. 2019. A influência da heterogeneidade ambiental sobre os padrões de coloração crípticos. Universidade Federal de Goiás. Dissertação de Mestrado, 49p.
Ximenes, N. 2017. O papel da interação com presas e predadores na variação cromática de Gasteracantha cancriformis (Araneidae). Universidade Federal de Goiás. Dissertação de Mestrado, 72p.
Gawryszewski, F.M. 2011. Colouration in Crab Spiders (Thomisidae): Function, Mechanism and Evolution. Macquarie University, Australia. PhD Thesis.
Gawryszewski, F.M. 2007. Policromatismo e stabilimentum em Gasteracantha cancriformis (Araneae, Araneidae) : caracterização e as hipóteses da atração de presas e da proteção da teia. Universidade de Brasilia, Brazil. Dissertação de Mestrado, 87p.