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NextGeneration specimen digitization:  The international herbarium community goes spectral!

NextGeneration specimen digitization: The international herbarium community goes spectral!

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Authors

Jeannine Cavender-Bares , Dawson M White , Natalie Iwanycki Ahlstrand, Matthew Austin, Denis Bastianelli, ...  more

Abstract

1. Spectral reflectance measured from herbarium specimens represents a vast source of plant phenotypic and functional trait data. 2. The potential to capture data from specimens to enhance knowledge of plant function and taxon identification has inspired many laboratories worldwide to initiate next-generation spectral digitization from specimens. 3. Combining these datasets into a coordinated global database would enable prediction of traits from the world’s plants and allow novel, impactful scientific questions to be addressed at global scale. These novel data streams will generate new capacity to model plant traits globally, enabling...  more

DOI

https://doi.org/10.32942/X2V927

Subjects

Life Sciences

Keywords

spectral data, herbarium specimens, dried leaves, plant traits, taxon identification, evolutionary models, pressed leaves, IHerbSpec

Dates

Published: 2025-05-20 22:14

Last Updated: 2025-07-06 00:31

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CC-By Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International

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Conflict of interest statement:
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Data and Code Availability Statement:
No new data were collected for this manuscript

Language:
English