Trinomys's Ecological Life-History and Morphological

Abstract

The correlation between morphological or molecular descriptors and the evolutive process is one of the main questions in morphometric analysis, which can be addressed in phylogenetic or environmental terms. In this context, many works have been presented to the scientific community having as main key the relation between phenotype and pre-determined time-space conditions. Traditional morphometrics generally apply multivariate statistical methods to size or shape variables such as distances and angles. On the other hand, geometric morphometrics regard geometrical relationships between these measurements [1]. Note that morphometry is a multidisciplinary area related to shape analysis [2]. Nevertheless there are not many works that explore multiscale and di#erential methods well known in shape analysis and image processing community, e.g. wavelets [3]