Sonke Johnsen
Professor of Biology
Education
Ph.D., University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill 1996
B.A., Swarthmore College 1988
Johnsen, S., and H. M. Sosik. “Cryptic coloration and mirrored sides as camouflage strategies in near-surface pelagic habitats: Implications for foraging and predator avoidance.” Limnology and Oceanography 48, no. 3 (January 1, 2003): 1277–88. https://doi.org/10.4319/lo.2003.48.3.1277. Full Text
Johnsen, Sönke. “Cryptic and conspicuous coloration in the pelagic environment.” Proceedings. Biological Sciences 269, no. 1488 (February 2002): 243–56. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2001.1855. Full Text
Johnsen, S. “Hidden in plain sight: the ecology and physiology of organismal transparency.” The Biological Bulletin 201, no. 3 (December 2001): 301–18. https://doi.org/10.2307/1543609. Full Text
Johnsen, S., and E. A. Widder. “Ultraviolet absorption in transparent zooplankton and its implications for depth distribution and visual predation.” Marine Biology 138, no. 4 (January 1, 2001): 717–30. https://doi.org/10.1007/s002270000499. Full Text
Lohmann, K. J., and S. Johnsen. “The neurobiology of magnetoreception in vertebrate animals.” Trends in Neurosciences 23, no. 4 (April 2000): 153–59. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0166-2236(99)01542-8. Full Text
Johnsen, S. “Transparent animals.” Scientific American 282, no. 2 (February 2000): 80–89. https://doi.org/10.1038/scientificamerican0200-80. Full Text
Widder, E. A., and S. Johnsen. “3D spatial point patterns of bioluminescent plankton: A map of the 'mine field'.” Journal of Plankton Research 22, no. 3 (January 1, 2000): 409–20. https://doi.org/10.1093/plankt/22.3.409. Full Text
Johnsen, S., and W. M. Kier. “Shade-seeking behaviour under polarized light by the brittlestar Ophioderma brevispinum (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea).” Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 79, no. 4 (August 1, 1999): 761–63. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0025315498000940. Full Text
Widder, E. A., S. Johnsen, S. A. Bernstein, J. F. Case, and D. J. Neilson. “Thin layers of bioluminescent copepods found at density discontinuities in the water column.” Marine Biology 134, no. 3 (August 1, 1999): 429–37. https://doi.org/10.1007/s002270050559. Full Text
Johnsen, S., and E. A. Widder. “The physical basis of transparency in biological tissue: Ultrastructure and the minimization of light scattering.” Journal of Theoretical Biology 199, no. 2 (July 21, 1999): 181–98. https://doi.org/10.1006/jtbi.1999.0948. Full Text