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Geometric morphometrics for biologists : a primer / Miriam Leah Zelditch ... [et al.].

Contributor(s): Zelditch, Miriam, 1952-.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Systematics Association special volume ; 73.Publisher: Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier Academic Press, c2004Description: x, 443 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.ISBN: 0127784608.Subject(s): SPECIES DIVERSITY | MORPHOLOGY | MATHEMATICS | INFORMATION MANAGEMENT | BIOMETRICS | MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS | GEOMETRYHoldings: CHRISTCHURCH: 519.237 GEO Online resources: Table of contents | Publisher description
Contents:
Introduction -- Basics of shape data -- Landmarks -- Simple size and shape variables : Bookstein shape coordinates -- Theory of shape -- Superimposition methods -- The thin-plate spline : visualizing shape change as a deformation -- Analyzing shape variables -- Ordination methods -- Computer-based statistical methods -- Multivariate analysis of variance -- Regression -- Partial least squares analysis -- Applications of morphometric methods to complex hypotheses -- Disparity and variation -- The relationship between ontogeny and phylogeny -- Morphometrics and systematics -- Last things -- Beyond two-dimensional configurations of landmarks.
Review: "This book will be an invaluable primer for all biologists with an interest in and need to describe and compare shape and form, from the micro to the macro levels: comparative anatomists, taxonomists, evolutionary biologists, ecologists and many more."--BOOK JACKET.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [429]-436) and index.

1. Introduction -- Pt. I. Basics of shape data -- 2. Landmarks -- 3. Simple size and shape variables : Bookstein shape coordinates -- 4. Theory of shape -- 5. Superimposition methods -- 6. The thin-plate spline : visualizing shape change as a deformation -- Pt. II. Analyzing shape variables -- 7. Ordination methods -- 8. Computer-based statistical methods -- 9. Multivariate analysis of variance -- 10. Regression -- 11. Partial least squares analysis -- Pt. III. Applications of morphometric methods to complex hypotheses -- 12. Disparity and variation -- 13. The relationship between ontogeny and phylogeny -- 14. Morphometrics and systematics -- Pt. IV. Last things -- 15. Beyond two-dimensional configurations of landmarks.

"This book will be an invaluable primer for all biologists with an interest in and need to describe and compare shape and form, from the micro to the macro levels: comparative anatomists, taxonomists, evolutionary biologists, ecologists and many more."--BOOK JACKET.

CHRISTCHURCH: 519.237 GEO

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