THE ROLE OF SPECIES ABUNDANCE IN DETERMINING BREEDING ORIGINS OF MIGRATORY BIRDS WITH STABLE ISOTOPES
By J. Andrew Royle, D. Rubenstein. Ecological Applications, 2004
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Understanding the breeding origins of migratory birds captured on their wintering grounds has important management and conservation implications for declining populations of songbirds. Stable isotopes have recently been used to infer origins for species where application of conventional markers fails. A natural method of linking wintering birds to breeding populations, and one that has not been previously applied to stable isotopes, is based on likelihood. Using a likelihood assignment rule, birds are associated with the breeding population under which their realized isotope signature is most likely to have been generated. We report the first illustration of using likelihood-based assignment with stable isotope data. Moreover, within a probability-based framework for assignment, we argue that a more natural formulation of the assignment problem should be based on the probability of origin given the observed data, or the posterior probability of origin. The relationship between posterior assignment and tha...
Subfields: Ecology
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- Richard Inger
- Keith A. Hobson
- J. Newton
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- Judith A. Zbinden
- Bronwen Gill
- Phil J. Bradshaw
Citations in the corpus
- Migratory dichotomy and associated phenotypic variation in marine turtles revealed by satellite tracking and stable isotope analysis (2011, background): “…to determine the foraging ecology and location of animals use δ15N to infer trophic level while δ13C is considered informative for foraging location in terms of terrestrial versus marine or inshore versus offshore ecosystems (reviewed in Hobson 1999, Rubenstein & Hobson 2004, Reich et al. 2010).”
- Applications of stable isotope analyses to avian ecology (2008, methodology): “The assignment of migratory origin has already benefited from the adoption of a Bayesian approach to incorporate both uncertainty and a priori knowledge into analyses (Royle & Rubenstein 2004, Wunder et al. 2005).”
- STABLE ISOTOPES AND THE DETERMINATION OF AVIAN MIGRATORY CONNECTIVITY AND SEASONAL INTERACTIONS (2005, background): “On the other hand, Royle and Rubenstein (2004) did not provide convincing evidence that their approach provided any particularly useful information on assignment for the Black-throated Blue Warbler (D. caerulescens), because they considered such broad regions of origin with relatively sparse data.”