GeMBiD, a Geometric Morphometric Approach to the Study of Biological Diversity: An Example Study of the Red Colobus (Procolobus [Piliocolobus]) Species Complex

International Journal of Primatology

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 377-389

  Cardini, Andrea ^a,b   Elton, Sarah ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Conservation; Discriminant analysis; Identification; Morphological distinctiveness; Procolobus (Piliocolobus); Shape analysis

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; BIODIVERSITY; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIATION; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MORPHOLOGY; MORPHOMETRY; PHENOTYPE; PRIMATE; SHAPE ANALYSIS; SPECIES CONSERVATION;

COLOBINAE; COLOBUS SP.; PILIOCOLOBUS; PROCOLOBUS; PROCOLOBUS BADIUS;

EID: 79952252104     PISSN: 01640291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10764-010-9475-6     Document Type: Article

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