Morphometrics quantitatively describes the morphological variation of objects.When applied to biological forms, it is a particular field of biometrics. In medical entomology, where a major interest is the biology of insects in their natural environment, morphometrics might be considered as a tool for quantifying the phenotypic variation of an organism. Morphometrics focuses on variation, its pa...

The Gonghe Basin on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau has a cold, arid climate and suffered severe land degradation. Climate change as well anthropogenic activities including overgrazing have resulted in widespread blowout development formation of some Earth’s largest blowouts. blowouts are part an aeolian dominated landscape that passes from deflation zone to grass covered plain, then through increasi...