3D digitizing precision and sources of error in the geometric analysis of weasel skulls

Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae

Volumn 44, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 61-72

  Reig, S ^a  

^a MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

Author keywords

3D digitizing error; Geometric morphometrics; Missing data

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032325025     PISSN: 12178837     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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