Presenting data in a visually intuitive way is important for effective scientific communication. I enjoy very much thinking of meaningful ways to visually display my results using R, and am committed to presenting data using colour blind friendly palettes.
Many times when preparing for a presentation I have felt unsatisfied with the images I could find on the internet. This led me to draw my own original diagrams, figures and animations that help explain myself better when talking to an audience.
Below you can see some of the figures and diagrams I have created:
Vocal and auditory matching (or mismatching) in birds, from a preprint on bioRxiv.
Avian middle ear elements and functioning diagram
Animated phylomorphospace of the acoustic allometry of mammals, birds, frogs, from Muñoz et al., 2025
Phylogenetic tree with traits at the tips and phylogenetic generalised least squares (PGLS), from Muñoz, Goutte et al., (2020)
Logistic regression to predict rocket frog aggresive responses towards different playbacks, from Muñoz et al., (2025).
Behavioural and endocrine responses of frogs to different playbacks, from Muñoz et al., (2020)
Principal component analysis of leaves used by frogs to sing, from Muñoz & Halfwerk (2022)
2D and 3D spectrograms and power spectrum of the song of a screaming Piha (Lipaugus vociferans) downloaded from Xeno-canto.
Phenogram of a mammalian vocal trait, from Muñoz et al., 2025
What we see today is only a small fraction of what there used to be
Different traits evolve at different rates
Species richness map of the frog genus Physalaemus. Distributions downloaded from the IUCN Red List.
Synesthetic (sounds as colour) diagram of animal vocal communication
Vocal production is powered by the lungs