Overview
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences (LNEARTH, volume 124)
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction and Historical Review of the Subject
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Methodological Approach (Quantification and Visualization of Shape, and Traditional and Geometric Morphometrics)
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Applications
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Scope to the Future of Morphometrics
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About this book
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.
Reviews
From the reviews:
“This collection explains the volume’s aim as being to present the various aspects of morphometrics in a way that is accessible to readers who might not be acquainted with the voluminous literature on the topic … . this volume should be acquired by those whose purpose demands a comprehensive collection of all published morphometric studies. (e.g. specialist libraries).” (Norman MacLeod, Geology Magazine, February, 2011)Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Morphometrics for Nonmorphometricians
Editors: Ashraf M.T. Elewa
Series Title: Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-95853-6
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2010
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-95852-9Published: 10 June 2010
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-26370-5Published: 05 September 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-95853-6Published: 01 June 2010
Series ISSN: 0930-0317
Series E-ISSN: 1613-2580
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 367
Number of Illustrations: 104 b/w illustrations
Topics: Paleontology, Animal Anatomy / Morphology / Histology, Statistics for Engineering, Physics, Computer Science, Chemistry and Earth Sciences, Applications of Mathematics, Computer Imaging, Vision, Pattern Recognition and Graphics