Polarization vision in aquatic insects and ecological traps for polarotactic insects

Aquatic Insects: Challenges to Populations

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 204-229

  Horváth, Gábor ^a   Kriska, György ^a  

^a EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

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