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NextGeneration specimen digitization: The international herbarium community goes spectral!
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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
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https://doi.org/10.32942/X2V927
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Life Sciences
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spectral data, herbarium specimens, dried leaves, plant traits, taxon identification, evolutionary models, pressed leaves, IHerbSpec
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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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English
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