Hi Marc,
I am quite new in the morphometric field as well and like you
I have had a lots of problem understanding many of the morphometric book
that I came accross. Here some of the articles and book that were really
helpful:
Rohlf, J. F. (1990)Morphometrics. Annu. Rev. Ecol. Syst. 20:299-316
It gives a good review of morphometrics before the 1990. It
gives a small discussion of the pros and counts of the different methods
(some of them I had never came accross before).
http://www.qc.edu/Biology/fac_stf/marcus/multisyl/Quartom.html
This seems to be part of some class notes given by Marcus. It
give a good review of who, what, and when different aspect of geometric
morphometrics have been developed and also how some of the different
techniques work.
Stone, J. R. (1998) Landmark-Based Thin-Plate Spline Relative Warp
Analysis of Gastropod Shells. Syst. Biol 47 (2)254-263
This articles compare results obtained using three different
techniques on simulated gastropod shells. Interesting to figure out what
are the differences between techniques.
Lele, S.R. and Richtsmeier, J.T. (2001) An invariant approach to
statistical analysis of shapes. Shapman & Hall/CRC
This book is not just on geometric morphometrics, but it gives
some very easy to understand examples what to do and how things work
when working with landmarks. (I am still in the process of reading it,
but so far I like it)
I am always looking for some more suggestions.
Julie Marcil
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Dalhousie University, NS
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Hello,
I just came across this service by accident, but I am pleased that I
have. My name is Marc Laflamme, and I am presently undertaking a thesis
in multivariate morphometrics at Queen's University in Kingston, Canada.
With this said, I more or less stumbled into morphometrics by accident,
since my original project was purely taxonomic, but when it became
obvious that my fossils were not going to be classified by simple
taxonomy, I became consumed by a morphometrics project. So for the last
few months, I have been struggling through the matrix and algebraic
jargon in the hopes of finally understanding what my computer was doing
when performing a PCA! To make a long story short, I am overwhelmed by
many of the supposed "introductory" textbooks and papers which assume I
have 10 years of statistical background under my belt. Please don't
misunderstand me, I truly love the power associated with multivariate
statistics, and the types of problems that can only be solved through
morphometrics (to the point where I hope to upgrade my present project
to a Phd dissertation), but I would really appreciate any comments on
good morphometric papers/books/websites that i could read in order to be
able to tackle the harder literature in due time.
I appreciate any comments or suggestions.
Thank you,
Marc Laflamme
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