The foundations of geometric morphometrics were worked out about 30 years ago and have
continually been refined and extended. What has remained as a central thrust and source of …

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 …

Landmark‐based geometric morphometrics has emerged as an essential discipline for the
quantitative analysis of size and shape in ecology and evolution. With the ever‐increasing …

Featured Application The work described in this paper will support applications that can be
employed in fish culture or in the wild. These applications can be used to monitor fish growth …

The accumulation of large datasets and increasing data availability have led to the
emergence of data-driven paleontological studies, which reveal an unprecedented picture of …

Morphometric analysis of wings has been suggested for identifying and controlling isolated
populations of tsetse (Glossina spp), vectors of human and animal trypanosomiasis in Africa …

Plant leaves play a pivotal role in automated species identification using deep learning (DL).
However, achieving reproducible capture of leaf variation remains challenging due to the …

Identification of plant parasitic nematode species is usually achieved following
morphobiometric analysis, which requires a certain level of expertise and remains time …

Digitized specimens are an indispensable resource for rapidly acquiring big datasets and
typically must be pre‐processed prior to conducting analyses. One crucial image pre …

Digital images are an intuitive way to capture, store and analyse organismal phenotypes.
Many biologists are taking images to collect high‐dimensional phenotypic information from …