Transparency and visibility of gelatinous zooplankton from the Northwestern Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico

Biological Bulletin

Volumn 195, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 337-348

  Johnsen, Sönke ^a   Widder, Edith A ^a  

^a FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPTH DETERMINATION; OPTICAL PROPERTY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GULF OF MEXICO;

EID: 0032456863     PISSN: 00063185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1543145     Document Type: Article

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