Measurement error revisited: Its importance for the analysis of size and shape of birds

Acta Ornithologica

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 161-172

  Perktaş, Utku ^a   Gosler, Andrew G ^b  

^a HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Common Chaffinch; Fringilla coelebs; Measurement error; methods; museum studies; principal component analysis; shape; size

Indexed keywords

BODY SHAPE; BODY SIZE; COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; ERROR ANALYSIS; HERITABILITY; MORPHOLOGY; MUSEUM; ORNITHOLOGY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SONGBIRD;

AVES; FRINGILLA COELEBS;

EID: 79551619783     PISSN: 00016454     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3161/000164510X551309     Document Type: Article

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