Three-Dimensional Reconstruction of Macroscopic Features in Biological Materials

Krumnikl, Michal; Sojka, Eduard; Gaura, Jan; Motyka, Oldřich

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-11721-3_17

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“…Surface roughness has large effects on boundary-layer properties, and thus on the gas-exchange properties of a moss clump. Surface roughness has traditionally been measured by contact surface probes ( Rice et al, 2001 ), but more efficient laser scanning methods ( Rice et al, 2005 ) and stereoscopic image analysis ( Krumnikl et al, 2010 ), drawing on analogies to LIDAR scanning of forests. Uptake of these methods in bryology has to date been limited (although see Acosta-Mercado et al, 2012 ), but their application, in conjunction with shoot- and leaf-scale architectural characterizations, shows great potential ( Rice and Cornelissen, 2014 ).…”

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Morphogeometric Approaches to Non-vascular Plants

Stanton

Reeb

2016

Front. Plant Sci.

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Morphometric analysis of organisms has undergone a dramatic renaissance in recent years, embracing a range of novel computational and imaging techniques to provide new approaches to phenotypic characterization. These innovations have often developed piece-meal, and may reflect the taxonomic specializations and biases of their creators. In this review, we aim to provide a brief introduction to applications and applicability of modern morphometrics to non-vascular land plants, an often overlooked but evolutionarily and ecologically important group. The scale and physiology of bryophytes (mosses, liverworts, and hornworts) differ in important and informative ways from more “traditional” model plants, and their inclusion has the potential to powerfully broaden perspectives in plant morphology. In particular we highlight three areas where the “bryophytic perspective” shows considerable inter-disciplinary potential: (i) bryophytes as models for intra-specific and inter-specific phenotypic variation, (ii) bryophyte growth-forms as areas for innovation in architectural modularity, and (iii) bryophytes as models of ecophysiological integration between organs, individuals, and stands. We suggest that advances should come from two-way dialog: the translation and adoption of techniques recently developed for vascular plants (and other organisms) to bryophytes and the use of bryophytes as model systems for the innovation of new techniques and paradigms in morphogeometric approaches.

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