Using multiple tracers and directly accounting for trophic modification improves dietary mixing-model performance

Ecosphere

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2016, Pages

  Brett, M T ^a   Eisenlord, M E ^b   Galloway, A W E ^c  

^a University of Washington   (United States)

^b Cornell University ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian mixing model; Biomarkers; Dietary tracers; Fatty acids; Feeding trials; Herbivore; Idotea wosnesenskii; Special feature: biomarkers in trophic ecology; Stable isotopes

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986000763     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21508925     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ecs2.1440     Document Type: Article

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