Assessing the robustness of quantitative fatty acid signature analysis to assumption violations

Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 51-59

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

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aitchison; Bias; Diet composition; Diet estimation; Kullback Leibler; QFASA; Simulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84940847348     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2041210X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/2041-210X.12456     Document Type: Article

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