OPUS: A Synthesis of Geometric Morphometric Methods

这个项目将有助于完成一本关于几何形态计量学的书。虽然形态计量学方法（用于研究生物形状或其结构的生物变异的统计方法）是众所周知的，但这本书将使生物学家更容易获得新的几何方法。还计划编写一份实验手册，作为方法和软件的实用工作手册。它将用于形态计量学的研讨会和课程。这本书将综合PI近30年来在生物统计方法和软件的分析和发展方面的工作。该项目将产生广泛的影响，因为它将有助于满足越来越多的研究人员对使用新的几何形态测量方法进行培训的需求。这些新方法在进化模式的研究、与环境变量变化有关的变异研究以及医学应用方面都具有广泛的适用性。由于这是一个新领域，预计一旦研究人员更容易获得这些方法，几何形态计量学的使用将变得更加广泛。这也是为什么为这个新兴的研究领域完成这本教科书很重要的另一个原因。

This project will facilitate the completion of a book on geometric morphometrics. While morphometric methods (statistical methods used to study biological variation in shapes of organisms or their structures) are well-known, the book will make the newer geometric methods more accessible to biologists. A lab manual is also planned that would serve as a practical workbook for methods and software. It will be used in workshops and courses on morphometrics. The book will synthesize nearly 30 years of work by the PI on the analysis and development of biostatistical methods and software.This project will have a broad impact because it will help meet the demand by increasing numbers of researchers for training on use of the new geometric morphometric methods. These new methods are finding wide applicability in studies of patterns of evolution, studies of variation in relation to changes in environmental variables, and in medical applications. Because the field is new, it is anticipated that the use of geometric morphometrics will become even more wide-spread once the methods become more accessible to researchers. This is another reason why it is important to complete this text book for this emerging field of study.