Distance measures and optimization spaces in quantitative fatty acid signature analysis

Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1249-1262

  Bromaghin, Jeffrey F ^a   Rode, Karyn D ^a   Budge, Suzanne M ^b   Thiemann, Gregory W ^c  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Halichoerus grypus; QFASA; Ursus maritimus; Aitchison; Chukchi Sea; Diet composition; Gray seal; Kullback Leibler; Polar bear

Indexed keywords

HALICHOERUS; HALICHOERUS GRYPUS; URSUS MARITIMUS;

EID: 84924874154     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20457758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.1429     Document Type: Article

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