This paper provides a framework for the assessment of the natural sensitivity of coastal lagoons to anthropogenic and other external inputs. The assessment framework is based on analysis and consideration of morphometric characteristics of coastal lagoons, and is demonstrated in this paper using eight example intermittently open coastal lagoons from New South Wales, Australia. The framework pre...

Approximately two decades after the first pioneering analyses, the study of shape asymmetry with the methods of geometric morphometrics has matured and is a burgeoning field. New technology for data collection and new methods and software for analysis are widely available and have led to numerous applications in plants and animals, including humans. This review summarizes the concepts and morph...

Insects of the family Neriidae deposited in Insect Collection “El Colegio de la Frontera Sur” (Tapachula, México) were revised. Taxonomic revision 322 specimens provided distributional information about four genera and six species for state Chiapas (México). Glyphidops flavifrons (Bigot), Nerius pilifer Fabricius, plurivittatus Bigot Odontoloxozus longicornis (Coquillet) are new records, while ...

JOAN T. RICHTSMEIER*, SUBHASH R. LELE†, AND THEODORE M. COLE III‡ *Department of Anthropology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA; Center for Craniofacial Development and Disorders, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA †Department of Mathematical and Statistical Science, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada ‡Department of Basic Me...