Morphometrics for Nonmorphometricians

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Elewa, Ashraf M.T (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2010.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences, 124
• Subjects: Earth sciences.; Paleontology.; Computer graphics.; Animal anatomy.; Applied mathematics.; Engineering mathematics.; Statistics.; Earth Sciences.; Animal Anatomy / Morphology / Histology.; Statistics for Engineering, Physics, Computer Science, Chemistry and Earth Sciences.; Applications of Mathematics.; Computer Imaging, Vision, Pattern Recognition and Graphics.
• Physical Description: XI, 367 p. 104 illus. online resource.
• ISBN: 9783540958536
• ISSN: 0930-0317 ;

Morphometrics is concerned with the study of variations and change in the form (size and shape) of organisms or objects adding a quantitative element to descriptions and thereby facilitating the comparison of different objects and organisms. This volume provides an introduction to morphometrics in a clear and simple way without recourse to complex mathematics and statistics. This introduction is followed by a series of case studies describing the variety of applications of morphometrics from paleontology and evolutionary ecology to archaeological artifacts analysis. This is followed by a presentation of future applications of morphometrics and state of the art software for analyzing and comparing shape.