Cryptic coloration and mirrored sides as camouflage strategies in near-surface pelagic habitats: Implications for foraging and predator avoidance

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 1277-1288

  Johnsen, Sönke ^a   Sosik, Heidi M ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLOR; CRYPSIS; OPTICAL PROPERTY; PELAGIC ECOSYSTEM; PREDATION;

CRYPSIS; GADUS MORHUA;

EID: 0037853308     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2003.48.3.1277     Document Type: Article

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