For centuries, ecologists and evolutionary biologists have used images such as drawings,
paintings and photographs to record and quantify the shapes and patterns of life. With the …

Fine-grained environmental data across large extents are needed to resolve the processes
that impact species communities from local to global scales. Ground-based images (GBIs) …

The use of surface digitization techniques and methods in palaeontology has increased in
the last two decades, mainly due to recent improvements in devices and software. However …

In the field of biology, the'biomarkers' of the different animal species are of great relevance,
as well as the relationships between them and the quality of the habitat. A study was …

The field of biological allometry has been dominated since early in the last century by the
logarithmic transformation, which is widely perceived to be necessary for the proper analysis …

Size changes in brain and brain regions along altitudinal gradients provide insight into the
trade‐off between energetic expenditure and cognitive capacity. We investigated the brain …

Recent advances in non-invasive imaging methods have revitalized the field of comparative
anatomy, and reproductive anatomy has been no exception. The reproductive systems of …

Here, we investigate the relationship between relative brain size and sexual weapons in
ruminants. In most cases, sexual weaponry is heavily male-biased, and costs resulting from …

The huge antlers of the extinct Irish elk have invited evolutionary speculation since Darwin.
In the 1970s, Stephen Jay Gould presented the first extensive data on antler size in the Irish …

Direct measures of body mass of marine mammals are logistically complicated to obtain
even for pinnipeds. An alternative method for mass estimation based on 3D imaging …