Geometric Morphometrics for Biologists A Primer

About this book

The first edition of Geometric Morphometrics for Biologists has been the primary resource for teaching modern geometric methods of shape analysis to biologists who have a stronger background in biology than in multivariate statistics and matrix algebra. These geometric methods are appealing to biologists who approach the study of shape from a variety of perspectives, from clinical to evolutionary, because they incorporate the geometry of organisms throughout the data analysis. The second edition of Geometric Morphometrics for Biologists retains the emphasis on accessible explanations, and the copious illustrations and examples of the first, updating the treatment of both theory and practice. The second edition represents the current state-of-the-art and adds new examples and summarizes recent literature, as well as provides an overview of new software and step-by-step guidance through details of carrying out the analyses.

Contents

1. Introduction

Part I: Basics of Shape Data
2. Landmarks and Semilandmarks
3. Simple Size and Shape Variables: Shape Coordinates
4. Theory of Shape
5. The Thin-plate Spline

Part 2: Analyzing Shape Variables
6. Ordination Methods
7. Partial Least Squares
8. Statistics
9. General Linear Models

Part 3: Applications
10. Evolutionary Developmental Biology
11. Variational Properties
12. Ecological and Evolutionary Morphology
13. Systematics
14. Forensics

Glossary
Bibliography
Index

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