Recent Bayesian stable-isotope mixing models are highly sensitive to variation in discrimination factors

Ecological Applications

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1017-1023

  Bond, Alexander L ^a,b   Diamond, Antony W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

^b MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

Author keywords

Assumptions; Conservation; Discrimination factor; Management; Mixing model; MixSIR; Puffinus mauretanicus; Sensitivity analysis; SIAR; Stable isotope; Sterna hirundo

Indexed keywords

CARBON; NITROGEN;

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; BLOOD; CARBON ISOTOPE; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; CRUSTACEAN; DIET; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FISH; FISHERY DISCARD; MUSCLE; NITROGEN ISOTOPE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRIORITIZATION; SEABIRD; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STABLE ISOTOPE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIRD; FISH; FOOD CHAIN; METABOLISM;

ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; BIRDS; CARBON; CARBON ISOTOPES; FISHES; FOOD CHAIN; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NITROGEN; NITROGEN ISOTOPES;

AVES; EUPHAUSIIDAE; PROCELLARIIDAE; PUFFINUS MAURETANICUS; STERNA HIRUNDO;

EID: 79958831577     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/09-2409.1     Document Type: Article

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