Modelling risk areas in the North Sea for blooms of the invasive comb jelly Mnemiopsis leidyi A. Agassiz, 1865
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عنوان ژورنال: Aquatic Invasions
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1818-5487
DOI: 10.3391/ai.2014.9.1.02