Incorporating uncertainty and prior information into stable isotope mixing models

Ecology Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 470-480

  Moore, Jonathan W ^a,b   Semmens, Brice X ^a  

^a ALASKA FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian; Carbon; Diet; Food web; Isotopic fractionation; MixSIR; Nitrogen; Rainbow trout; Salmon; Sampling importance resampling

Indexed keywords

ISOTOPE;

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; MIXING; MODELING; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STABLE ISOTOPE; UNCERTAINTY ROLE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; FOOD CHAIN; FOOD PREFERENCE; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; RAINBOW TROUT; UNITED STATES; VALIDATION STUDY;

ALASKA; ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; FOOD CHAIN; FOOD PREFERENCES; ISOTOPES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; ONCORHYNCHUS MYKISS;

ONCORHYNCHUS MYKISS;

EID: 41849135390     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2008.01163.x     Document Type: Article

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