Systematic review of free and open source software (FOSS) employed in ecomorphological studies with recommendations for user-friendly developments

K De, AK Dwivedi - Ecological Informatics, 2023 - Elsevier
Morphometrics is an important aspect of biological research that integrates in various ways
with other branches of biology like genetics, ecology, and evolution to determine an …

Trophically integrated ecometric models as tools for demonstrating spatial and temporal functional changes in mammal communities

RA Short, JL McGuire, PD Polly… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
We are in a modern biodiversity crisis that will restructure community compositions and
ecological functions globally. Large mammals, important contributors to ecosystem function …

Geography of artiodactyl locomotor morphology as an environmental predictor

RA Short, AM Lawing - Diversity and Distributions, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Aim We investigate locomotor function in artiodactyls, represented by calcaneal gear ratio,
as it relates to multiple environments. Using an ecometric approach, we develop a trait …

The relative performance of geometric morphometrics and linear‐based methods in the taxonomic resolution of a mammalian species complex

P Viacava, SP Blomberg… - Ecology and Evolution, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Morphology‐based taxonomic research frequently applies linear morphometrics (LMM) in
skulls to quantify species distinctions. The choice of which measurements to collect …

[HTML][HTML] Ecometric models of small mammal hypsodonty can estimate paleoprecipitation across eastern Africa

JA Schap, JL McGuire, AM Lawing, FK Manthi… - Palaeogeography …, 2024 - Elsevier
Ecometric analyses use the relationships between functional traits and the environment at
the community level to quantitatively estimate past climatic and environmental variables at …

The oldest semi-aquatic beaver in the world and a new hypothesis for the evolution of locomotion in Castoridae

JJM Calede - Royal Society Open Science, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The North American rodent fossil record includes hundreds of species representing both an
incredible taxonomic diversity and great ecological disparity. Although it is during the …

[HTML][HTML] The Past as a Lens for Biodiversity Conservation on a Dynamically Changing Planet: Trophically integrated ecometric models as tools for demonstrating …

RA Short, JL McGuire, PD Polly… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
We are in a modern biodiversity crisis that will restructure community compositions and
ecological functions globally. Large mammals, important contributors to ecosystem function …

Leveraging Descriptor Learning and Functional Map-based Shape Matching for Automatic Landmark Acquisition

OO Thomas, AM Maga - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Geometric morphometrics is widely employed across the biological sciences for the
quantification of morphological traits. However, the scalability of these methods to large …

Choice of 3D morphometric method leads to diverging interpretations of form–function relationships in the carnivoran calcaneus

AN Wimberly, R Natale, R Higgins, GJ Slater - bioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
Three dimensional morphometric methods are a powerful tool for comparative analysis of
shape. However, morphological shape is often represented using landmarks selected by the …