Numerical Taxonomy

The NATO Advanced Study Institute on Numerical Taxonomy took place on the 4th - 16th of July, 1982, at the Kur- und Kongresshotel Residenz in Bad Windsheim, Federal Republic of Germany. This volume is the proceedings of that meeting, and contains papers by over two-thirds of the participants in the...

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Other Authors: Felsenstein, Joseph (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 1983, 1983
Edition:1st ed. 1983
Series:Nato ASI Subseries G:, Ecological Sciences
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • A review of the numerical methods for recognizing and analysing racial differentiation
  • Testing causal hypotheses of geographical variation
  • Geographic variation in human gene frequencies
  • Treeness tests and the problem of variable evolutionary rates
  • Phylogenetic analysis of range expansion in the grass snake: reticulate evolution: primary and secondary contact zones
  • Correspondence between geographic proximity and phenetic similarity among pinus brutia Ten. populations in southern Turkey
  • Geographic distribution, polyploidy and pattern of flavonoids in Phragmites australis (Cav.) Trin. ex Steud
  • Biochemical Applications
  • Molecular evolution of mammalian pancreatic ribonucleases
  • Quantitative comparison of protein chain folds
  • An approach to the taxonomy of malaria parasites on the basis of protein structures: adenylate kinase and glutathione reductase as examples
  • Evolutionary relations of sulfate reducers
  • Methods of flavonoid data analysis
  • Approaches to Classification
  • The significance of phylogenetic classifications for systematic and evolutionary biology
  • The value of natural classification
  • Philosophy and method in biological classification
  • The phenetics-cladistics controversy: a personal view
  • Parsimony and paraphyly
  • The future of numerical methods in plant systematics: a personal prospect
  • A practical view of numerical taxonomy or should I be a pheneticist or a cladist?
  • Taxa, taxonomists, and taxonomy
  • Taxonomic Congruence
  • Taxonomic congruence in the Caminalcules
  • Taxonomic congruence — a reanalysis
  • A simulation model for numerical taxonomic methods
  • Taxonomic congruence: a brief discussion.
  • Algorithms optimizing the taxonomic information of classifications
  • Prediction = Parsimony or Partitions?
  • Information content and most parsimonious trees
  • Numerical taxonomic evaluation of the taxonomic value of character suites in Tillandsia L
  • Phylogeny of Euphorbia interpreted from sterol composition of latex
  • General Applications
  • Numerical ecology: developments and recent trends
  • Evolutionary trees and numerical taxonomy in studies of Tillandsia (Bromeliaceae)
  • Application of numerical techniques to the systematics of Toxorhynchites (Diptera: Culicidae)
  • A chromosome inversion pathway for some Chironomus species and two new techniques for analyzing similarity functions
  • Multivariate analysis of variability associated with source of origin in the bacterium Simonsiella
  • Reflections on the classifications of Yponomeuta (Yponomeutidae, Lepidoptera) and numerical taxonomic procedure
  • A phenetic study of the genus Xylocopa (Hym.-Apoidea)
  • Numerical taxonomy of the genus Chaetomium Kze
  • A numerical taxonomic study on Carthamus L. taxa in Turkey
  • Multivariate analysis of the polyploid complex Valeriana officinalis (preliminary report)
  • Application of numerical taxonomic techniques to the study of behavior
  • Numerical taxonomy of some Portuguese wines
  • Computers in Systematics
  • Image analysis
  • Computers in systematics: one perspective
  • Automated measurement with portable microcomputers
  • The Vicieae database project: experimental uses of a monographic taxonomic database for species of vetch and pea
  • List of Participants
  • Wagner trees in theory and practice
  • The causes of character incompatibility
  • The uniquely derived concept as a basis for character compatibility analyses
  • Theoretical and computational considerations of the compatibility of qualitative taxonomic characters
  • Methods for inferring phylogenies: a statistical view
  • A divisive algorithm for estimating parsimonious trees
  • Relationships between transformation series and some numerical cladistic methods at the infraspecific level, when genealogies are known
  • Analyzing Morphological Variation
  • Some genetic aspects of morphometric variation
  • Choice of descriptors in numerical taxonomy for static and dynamic shape analysis and recognition in biology
  • A new coding procedure for morphometric data with an example from periodical cicada wing veins
  • A quick method for making multistate characters out of continuous measurements
  • Geographic Variation
  • Analyzing character variation in geographic space
  • Instability and incongruence in the brooms and gorses (Leguminosae subtribe Genistinae)
  • A view of some consensus methods for trees
  • Distributions of distances between pairs of classifications
  • Sampling distribution of consensus indices when all bifurcating trees are equally likely
  • Clustering and Ordination
  • Comparing classifications
  • Cluster validity by concurrent chaining
  • Characteristics of four external criterion measures
  • Comparison of classifications with the data from which they are derived
  • Sur la signification des classes issues d’une classification automatique de donnees
  • Significance tests for clusters: overview and comments
  • Inference procedures for the evaluation and comparison of proximity matrices
  • Representing proximities data by discrete, continuous, or “hybrid” models
  • Hierarchical cluster methods as maximumlikelihood estimators
  • The occurrence of multiple UPGMA phenograms
  • Reconstructing Phylogenies