Geomorph: An r package for the collection and analysis of geometric morphometric shape data

Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 393-399

  Adams, Dean C ^a,b   Otárola Castillo, Erik ^a,c  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b E005A Lagomarcino Hall   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Evolutionary biology; Macroevolution; Statistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875761771     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2041210X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/2041-210X.12035     Document Type: Article

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