Lifting the cloak of invisibility: The effects of changing optical conditions on pelagic crypsis

Integrative and Comparative Biology

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 580-590

  Johnsen, Sönke ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 1542437248     PISSN: 15407063     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icb/43.4.580     Document Type: Conference Paper

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