Searching for the true diet of marine predators: Incorporating Bayesian priors into stable isotope mixing models

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Chiaradia, André ^a   Forero, Manuela G ^b   McInnes, Julie C ^a   Ramírez, Francisco ^b  

^a Department of Research Phillip Island Nature Parks ^*  (Australia)

^b DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON 13; DNA; NITROGEN 15;

ACCURACY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL FOOD; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BLOOD LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; EUDYPTULA MINOR; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MARINE SPECIES; NONHUMAN; PREDATOR; PREY; SEABIRD; ANIMAL; AQUATIC SPECIES; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; FOOD CHAIN; PENGUIN; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDATION;

ANIMALS; AQUATIC ORGANISMS; FOOD CHAIN; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SPHENISCIDAE;

EID: 84899886278     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0092665     Document Type: Article

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