The use of digital photography in systematics

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 110, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-13

  Mckay, Bailey D ^a  

^a DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Colour measurement; Colour pattern; Imaging; Sexual dichromatism; Species delimitation

Indexed keywords

BIRD; CLINE; COLOR; COLOR MORPH; DIGITAL IMAGE; PHENOTYPE; PHOTOGRAPHY; PLUMAGE; TAXONOMY; TRANSECT;

AVES;

EID: 84881611654     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/bij.12086     Document Type: Article

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