Bayesian stable isotope mixing models

DOI10.1002/ENV.2221zbMATH Open1525.62195arXiv1209.6457WikidataQ57232167 ScholiaQ57232167MaRDI QIDQ6069092FDOQ6069092

Authors: Andrew C. Parnell, David Kelly 

Publication date: 15 December 2023

Published in: Environmetrics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this paper we review recent advances in Stable Isotope Mixing Models (SIMMs) and place them into an over-arching Bayesian statistical framework which allows for several useful extensions. SIMMs are used to quantify the proportional contributions of various sources to a mixture. The most widely used application is quantifying the diet of organisms based on the food sources they have been observed to consume. At the centre of the multivariate statistical model we propose is a compositional mixture of the food sources corrected for various metabolic factors. The compositional component of our model is based on the isometric log ratio (ilr) transform of Egozcue (2003). Through this transform we can apply a range of time series and non-parametric smoothing relationships. We illustrate our models with 3 case studies based on real animal dietary behaviour.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1209.6457

zbMATH Keywords

compositional datatime seriesBayesian hierarchical modelmixing modelsstable isotope analysis

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics to environmental and related topics (62P12)

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