Bias in diet determination: Incorporating traditional methods in Bayesian mixing models

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2013, Pages

  Franco Trecu, Valentina ^a   Drago, Massimiliano ^b   Riet Sapriza, Federico G ^a   Parnell, Andrew ^c   Frau, Rosina ^a   Inchausti, Pablo ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LA REPÚBLICA   (Uruguay)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOOD COMPOSITION; METHODOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PREDATION; PREY; SEAL; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES HABITAT; STABLE ISOTOPE AND BAYESIAN MIXING MODEL; STABLE ISOTOPE AND BAYESIAN MIXING MODEL INFORMATIVE PRIOR; STABLE ISOTOPE AND BAYESIAN MIXING MODEL UNINFORMATIVE PRIOR;

ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; DIET; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 84892404291     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0080019     Document Type: Article

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