Mean shape index influenced non-carnivore richness.
I totally believe in form but quite often, when people use the term, they mean shape rather than form.
The mean shape index (MSI) and Shannon's evenness indexes (SEI) were significantly associated with snail density.
At the landscape scale, roe deer distribution was negatively associated with spatial heterogeneity, namely mean shape index.
Total mammal richness was determined by mean shape and habitat division while diversity and patch richness explained carnivore species richness.
Patch density, edge density, mean shape index, nearest neighbor distance, and the interspersion/juxtaposition index all showed relatively small changes.
Total forest area, mean and largest patch size, and mean shape index all decreased consistently over the same period.
In comparison, Maas-Rhein-Ijsselschlag cattle, a breed with a skull shape closer to the overall mean shape, showed smaller Procrustes distances.
Starting from an image base collected from 30 selected patients, a mean shape and most important deformations for each structure were deduced using principal component analysis.
Computed Area Weighted Mean Shape Index (AWMSI) and Area Weighted Mean Patch Fractal Dimension (AWMPFD) values indicated higher urbanization rates in Trabzon city.
The mean shape of a Niata skull was most different from Bucharan Grey (PD: 0.29), Sanga (PD: 0.26), and Zebu (PD: 0.25) cattle and closest to Tuxer (PD: 0.15), Zillertaler (PD: 0.17), as well as Jersey (PD: 0.17) cattle.
