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Combining simulation modeling and stable isotope analyses to reconstruct the last known movements of one of Nature's giants.
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- Integrating isotopic and nutritional niches reveals multiple dimensions of individual diet specialisation in a marine apex predator.The Journal of animal ecology · 2023Article
- Inferences to estimate consumer's diet using stable isotopes: Insights from a dynamic mixing model.PloS one · 2022Article
- Reconstructing the diet, trophic level and migration pattern of mysticete whales based on baleen isotopic composition.Royal Society open science · 2021Article
- Using near-infrared reflectance spectroscopy (NIRS) to estimate carbon and nitrogen stable isotope composition in animal tissues.Ecology and evolution · 2021Article
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- Prolonged maternal investment in northern bottlenose whales alters our understanding of beaked whale reproductive life history.PloS one · 2020Article
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8 authors at 6 institutions in 4 countries.
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Abstract
The spatial ecology of rare, migratory oceanic animals is difficult to study directly. Where incremental tissues are available, their chemical composition can provide valuable indirect observations of movement and diet. Interpreting the chemical record in incremental tissues can be highly uncertain, however, as multiple mechanisms interact to produce the observed data. Simulation modeling is one approach for considering alternative hypotheses in ecology and can be used to consider the relative likelihood of obtaining an observed record under different combinations of ecological and environmental processes. Here we show how a simulation modeling approach can help to infer movement behaviour based on stable carbon isotope profiles measured in incremental baleen tissues of a blue whale (
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