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Changeable camouflage: how well can flounder resemble the colour and spatial scale of substrates in their natural habitats?

Flounder change colour and pattern for camouflage. We used a spectrometer to measure reflectance spectra and a digital camera to capture body patterns of two flounder species camouflaged on four natural backgrounds of different spatial scale (sand, small gravel, large gravel and rocks). We quantifie...

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Autores principales: Akkaynak, Derya, Siemann, Liese A., Barbosa, Alexandra, Mäthger, Lydia M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Royal Society Publishing 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5383827/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28405370
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.160824