Performance of maximum likelihood mixture models to estimate nursery habitat contributions to fish stocks: a case study on sea bream Sparus aurata

Background Mixture models (MM) can be used to describe mixed stocks considering three sets of parameters: the total number of contributing sources, their chemical baseline signatures and their mixing proportions. When all nursery sources have been previously identified and sampled for juvenile fish...

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Main Authors: Edwin J. Niklitschek, Audrey M. Darnaude
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: PeerJ Inc. 2016-10-01
Series:PeerJ
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Online Access:https://peerj.com/articles/2415.pdf