Behavioural Response of the Scyphozoan Jellyfish Aurelia Aurita (L.) Upon Contact with the Predatory Jellyfish Cyanea Capillata (L.)

Zooplankton: Sensory Ecology and Physiology

Volumn , Issue , 2021, Pages 493-499

  Hansson, Lars Johan ^a   Kultima, Kim ^a  

^a GÖTEBORG UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

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EID: 41449101280     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1201/9780203733615-38     Document Type: Chapter

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