An Empirical Evaluation of the Utility of Convex Hull and Standard Ellipse Areas for Assessing Population Niche Widths from Stable Isotope Data

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Syväranta, Jari ^a   Lensu, Anssi ^a   Marjomäki, Timo J ^a   Oksanen, Sari ^a   Jones, Roger I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; NITROGEN; STABLE ISOTOPE;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FISH; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION SIZE; POPULATION STRUCTURE; RELIABILITY; SAMPLE SIZE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; CARBON ISOTOPES; FISHES; NITROGEN ISOTOPES; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SAMPLE SIZE;

EID: 84873543047     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0056094     Document Type: Article

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