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Subject: allometry definition
Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2011 10:30:53 -0400
From: luis bizzo <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Dear morphometricians,
I have been reading about allometry and I see it as the shape change of
a body
part related to its size. However, in many publications and textbooks I
read
that allometry is the relationship between body size and its parts.
That´s a
scale relation, based solely on size. Bonduriansky and Day (2003) names
it as
trait allometry, and Shingleton et al (2009) as static allometry (a term
already
used for shape changes in Klingenberg, 1996).
As I am dealing with both analyses I am not sure how to define allometry
and how
to diferentiate these two "types" of static allometry.
Klingenberg (1996) and Wilson and Sánchez-Villagra (2010) used the terms
bivariate allometry and multivariate allometry, but at least for me, the
definition of allometry still holds ambiguous.
Kind Regards,
Luís Bizzo
[email protected]
