Nuevo libro de morfometria

Ashraf M.T. Elewa, Editor. 2010. Morphometrics for Nonmorphometricians. Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences 124. Springer. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-95853-6

The aim of this new edited volume is 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 this topic. Morphometrics is the quantitative study of
organismic form. It attempts to quantify, precisely and as completely as practical,
the information on size and shape that often is readily apparent to the investigator
yet difficult to adequately characterize in numerical terms. Morphometric studies
thus provide an initial step in the understanding of patterns of variation among individuals
and groups of organisms, and typically form an important groundwork for
analyses of structure, function, and evolution. As such, morphometrics has become
central to the biological sciences.

Contents
Part I Introduction and Historical Review of the Subject
(Chaps. 1 and 2)
1 Why Morphometrics? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Ashraf M.T. Elewa
2 Morphometrics: An Historical Essay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Richard A. Reyment

Part II Methodological Approach (Quantification and
Visualization of Shape, and Traditional and
Geometric Morphometrics) (Chaps. 3 to 6)
3 Controlling for Curvature in the Quantification of Leaf Form . . 27
Jonathan D. Krieger
4 Discriminating Groups of Organisms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Richard E. Strauss
5 Visual Analysis in Archaeology. An Artificial Intelligence Approach 93
Juan A. Barceló
6 Evolution of the Upper Cretaceous Oysters: Traditional
Morphometrics Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
Ahmed A. Abdelhady and Ashraf M.T. Elewa

Part III Applications (Chaps. 7 to 15)
7 Combining Shape Data and Traditional Measurements
with the 2B-PLS: Testing the Covariation Between Avian
Brain Size and Cranial Shape Variation as an Example . . . . . . 179
Jesús Marugán-Lobón
8 Biogeographic Analysis Using Geometric Morphometrics:
Clines in Skull Size and Shape in a Widespread African
Arboreal Monkey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
Andrea Cardini, José Alexandre Felizola Diniz Filho,
P. David Polly, and Sarah Elton
9 Stock Identification of Marine Populations . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219
Steven X. Cadrin
10 Correlating Shape Variation with Feeding Performance
to Test for Adaptive Divergence in Recently Invading
Stickleback Populations from Swiss peri-alpine Environments . . 233
Denis Roy, Kay Lucek, Esther Bühler, and Ole Seehausen
11 Macroevolutionary Trends in the Skull
of Sauropodomorph Dinosaurs – The Largest
Terrestrial Animals to Have Ever Lived . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259
Mark T. Young and Matthew D. Larvan
12 The Use of Geometric Morphometrics in Studying
Butterfly Wings in an Evolutionary Ecological Context . . . . . . 271
Casper J. Breuker, Melanie Gibbs, Stefan Van Dongen,
Thomas Merckx, and Hans Van Dyck
13 Towards Automating Artifact Analysis: A Study
Showing Potential Applications of Computer Vision and
Morphometrics to Artifact Typology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289
Michael J. Lenardi and Daria E. Merwin
14 Morphometric Analysis Applied to the Archaeological
Pottery of the Valley of Guadalquivir . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307
Ana L. Martínez-Carrillo, Manuel Jesús Lucena, José Manuel
Fuertes, and Arturo Ruiz
15 Some Applications of Geometric Morphometrics to Archaeology . 325
Marcelo Cardillo
Part IV Scope to the Future of Morphometrics (Chaps. 16 to 18)
16 Prospectus: The Future of Morphometrics . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345
Richard E. Strauss
17 Morphometrics and Cosmology: Short Note and Future Hope . . 353
Ashraf M.T. Elewa
18 Morphometrics in Past: Integrating Morphometrics with
General Data Analysis Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357
Øyvind Hammer
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363