The relative success of some methods for measuring and describing the shape of complex objects

Systematic Biology

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 264-281

  McLellan, Tracy ^a   Endler, John A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Acer; Fourier analysis; Fractal dimension; Landmark analysis; Leaf shape; Liquidambar; Margin roughness; Morphometrics; Quercus

Indexed keywords

ACER; LIQUIDAMBAR; QUERCUS;

EID: 0032349711     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/106351598260914     Document Type: Article

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