Best practices for use of stable isotope mixing models in food-web studies

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• Publication year

  2014

• Venue

  Canadian Journal of Zoology

• Publication date

  2014-08-27

• Fields of study

  Biology, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1139/CJZ-2014-0127
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