Predicting fish diet composition using a bagged classification tree approach: A case study using yellowfin tuna (Thunnus albacares)

Marine Biology

Volumn 159, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 87-100

  Kuhnert, Petra M ^a   Duffy, Leanne M ^b   Young, Jock W ^a   Olson, Robert J ^b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b INTER AMERICAN TROPICAL TUNA COMMISSION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOOTSTRAPPING; DATA SET; DIET; ECOSYSTEM DYNAMICS; ERROR ANALYSIS; FEEDING ECOLOGY; FISHING GEAR; LATITUDE; LONGLINING; OLIGOTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; PERCIFORM; PREY AVAILABILITY; SAMPLING; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; STABLE ISOTOPE; STOMACH CONTENT; TROPHIC INTERACTION; TROPHIC LEVEL;

AUSTRALIA;

SCOMBRIDAE; THUNNUS ALBACARES;

EID: 84855190240     PISSN: 00253162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00227-011-1792-6     Document Type: Article

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