Sonke Johnsen, Ida Stephens Owens Distinguished Professor
Education:
Ph.D., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1996
B.A., Swarthmore College, 1988
Office Location: 301 Bio Sci Bldg, Durham, NC 27708
Email Address: sjohnsen@duke.edu
Web Page: http://www.biology.duke.edu/johnsenlab/
Additional Web Page: http://opticsoflife.org/
Specialties:
Organismal Biology and Behavior
Ecology and Population Biology
Evolution
Research Categories: Comparative physiology; focusing on vision, crypsis, optics, and bioluminescence in the open ocean
Research Description:
Recent Publications (More Publications) (search)
- Granger, J; Nevitt, G; Johnsen, S, Multispecies sensory networks and social foraging strategies: Implications for population decline in procellariiform seabirds., Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 122 no. 41 (October, 2025), pp. e2509317122 [doi] [abs].
- Schweikert, LE; Bracken-Grissom, HD; Ayoglu, U; Johnsen, S, Strategies and significance of self-assessing dynamic visual appearance., Trends in ecology & evolution, vol. 40 no. 9 (September, 2025), pp. 913-924 [doi] [abs].
- Caves, EM; Cheney, KL; Dacke, M; Dixit, T; Fialko, K; Franklin, AM; Jessop, A-L; Hart, NS; Hempel de Ibarra, N; Morehouse, NI; Morgan, R; Murugavel, B; Oakley, TH; Speiser, DI; Stoddard, MC; Warrant, EJ; Johnsen, S; Schweikert, LE, Emerging frontiers in visual ecology., The Journal of experimental biology, vol. 228 no. 15 (August, 2025), pp. jeb250537 [doi] [abs].
- Bolin, J; Moreno, V; Johnsen, S; Schweikert, L, Humpback whale (<i>Megaptera novaeangliae</i>) visual acuity allows silhouette detection but not fine detail discrimination over ecological distances., Proceedings. Biological sciences, vol. 292 no. 2047 (May, 2025), pp. 20243101 [doi] [abs].
- Phillips, ML; Granger, JN; Johnsen, S, Collective movement increases initial accuracy and path efficiency in talitrid amphipod orientation., Biology letters, vol. 20 no. 12 (December, 2024), pp. 20240497 [doi] [abs].