It succeeds the second edition as the primary resource for teaching modern geometric methods of shape analysis to students, researchers, and practicing scientists in the field of organismal biology. Users will find it to be an immensely valuable introduction for students and practicing biologists interested in learning applications of multivariate statistics and matrix algebra to organismal biology.
Table of Contents
1. IntroductionPart I: Basics of Shape Data
2. Landmarks
3. Simple Size and Shape Variables: Shape Coordinates
4. Theory of Shape
5. The Thin-Plate Spline: Visualizing Shape Change as a Deformation
Part II: Analyzing Shape Variables
6. Ordination Methods
7. Partial Least Squares
8. Statistics
9. General Linear Models
10. Phylogenetic Comparative Methods
Part III: Applications
11. Ecological Morphology
12. Evolutionary Morphology
13. Allometry
14. Variational Properties and their Evolutionary Outcomes
15. Systematics
16. Temporal, Geographic and Evolutionary Analyses of Disparity
17. Genetics of Shape Chapter 18: Simulating Shape Data
Authors
Miriam Zelditch Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan, USA.Dr. Miriam Zelditch is Associate Research Scientist at the University of Michigan's Museum of Paleontology. She obtained her PhD in Zoology from Michigan State University and conducted her NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Michigan. Her research interests broadly include zoology, paleobiology, evolutionary biology, comparative biology, and morphology. She has co-edited both prior editions of Geometric Morphometrics for Biologists.
Donald Swiderski Museum of Zoology, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, USA.Dr. Donald Swiderski is Adjunct Assistant Research Scientist at the University of Michigan's Museum of Zoology. He obtained his MSc in Paleontology and his PhD in Zoology from Michigan State University. His research interests broadly include zoology, paleontology, comparative vertebrate anatomy, mammalogy, and morphology. He has co-edited both prior editions of Geometric Morphometrics for Biologists.
