Morphometrics for Nonmorphometricians

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Elewa, Ashraf M.T. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2010.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences, 124
• Subjects: Geography.; Paleontology.; Computer vision.; Morphology (Animals).; Mathematics.; 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.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-95853-6
• Physical Description: XI, 367p. 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.