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. 2012 Aug 2;7(8):e40539. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0040539

Table 7. Comparison of source proportion estimates for each of the common prey species and Shannon-Wiener information measure (H) means and variances in p-space, between mixing models (SISUS, IsoSource and MixSIR) for Part 1 and 2.

Models Prey sources p-space
Part 1 Mixing model Pseudanthias rubrizonatus Rhynchocinetes balssi Petrolisthes militaris Pilumnus scabriusculus Hmean Hvarianc
DsHg SISUS 0.30 (0.06) 0.44 (0.08) 0.11 (0.02) 0.15 (0.01) −0.98 0.10
n = 8 IsoSource 0.35 (0.11) 0.33 (0.08) 0.12 (0.02) 0.19 (0.01) −0.97 0.16
MixSIR 0.29 (0.15) 0.09 (0.02) 0.26 (0.05) 0.36 (0.09) −0.79 0.09
SIAR 0.21 (0.01) 0.10 (0.01) 0.51 (0.03) 0.16 (0.01) −1.08 0.04
Mean 0.29 (0.08) 0.24 (0.19) 0.25 (0.03) 0.22 (0.01) −0.96 0.01
DgHg SISUS 0.36 (0.05) 0.15 (0.06) 0.28 (0.09) 0.20 (0.09) −1.11 0.07
n = 7 IsoSource 0.31 (0.06) 0.13 (0.01) 0.24 (0.08) 0.19 (0.01) −1.14 0.06
MixSIR 0.11 (0.03) 0.22 (0.03) 0.45 (0.06) 0.22 (0.05) −0.95 0.01
SIAR 0.23 (0.04) 0.10 (0.01) 0.45 (0.02) 0.22 (0.01) −1.14 0.01
Mean 0.25 (0.05) 0.15 (0.03) 0.36 (0.06) 0.21 (0.04) −1.09 0.04
DsHs SISUS 0.09 (0.01) 0.49 (0.09) 0.10 (<0.01) 0.33 (0.10) −0.88 0.11
n = 8 IsoSource 0.10 (<0.01) 0.47 (0.08) 0.09 (<0.01) 0.33 (0.08) −0.95 0.07
MixSIR 0.19 (0.09) 0.17 (0.02) 0.55 (0.05) 0.08 (0.01) −0.88 0.06
SIAR 0.06 (<0.01) 0.02 (<0.01) 0.90 (<0.01) 0.03 (<0.01) −0.99 0.02
Mean 0.11 (0.03) 0.29 (0.05) 0.41 (0.01) 0.19 (0.05) −0.93 0.07
DgHs SISUS 0.23 (0.04) 0.28 (0.04) 0.31 (0.04) 0.18 (0.01) −1.09 0.04
n = 20 IsoSource 0.25 (0.03) 0.26 (0.04) 0.30 (0.04) 0.20 (0.01) −1.15 0.01
MixSIR 0.09 (0.01) 0.05 (<0.01) 0.79 (0.01) 0.07 (<0.01) −0.66 0.02
SIAR 0.21 (0.02) 0.12 (0.01) 0.60 (0.01) 0.07 (<0.01) −0.40 0.02
Mean 0.20 (0.03) 0.18 (0.02) 0.50 (0.02) 0.13 (<0.01) −0.83 0.02

Includes mean proportion estimates, and Shannon-Wiener means and variances for all three models, elucidated in bold.