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Mixing models in analyses of diet using multiple stable isotopes: a critique

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Phillips, D.L. Mixing models in analyses of diet using multiple stable isotopes: a critique. Oecologia 127, 166–170 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1007/s004420000571

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