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Next‐generation specimen digitization: capturing reflectance spectra from the world's herbaria for modeling plant biology across time, space, and taxa

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By Jeannine Cavender-Bares, Dawson White, Natalie Iwanycki Ahlstrand, Matthew Austin
| New Phytologist
Contents Summary 2 I. Introduction 2 II. The expanding use of plant traits in ecology and evolution 3 III. What are reflectance spectra? 3 IV. Estimating plant traits from spectra of herbarium specimens 4 V. Applying spectral signatures to phenotype–genotype associations and evolutionary models 4 VI. Taxon discovery and discrimination 7 VII. Benefits and challenges to aggregating and scaling spectral data 9 VIII. Considerations for standardization of protocols and metadata 14 IX.
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Scientific distinctions between coca and cocaine support policy reform

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By Dawson White, Ricardo Soberón Garrido, Wade Davis, Caroline S. Conzelman
| Science Magazine Verified
The coca bush, a sacred South American crop plant, is classified alongside cocaine and heroin as a Schedule I controlled substance under international law. This scheduling, and the myriad effects of prohibition, have fostered a general perception that coca and its purified alkaloid cocaine are one and the same.
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Seeing herbaria in a new light: leaf reflectance spectroscopy unlocks trait and classification modeling in plant biodiversity collections

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By Dawson White, Jeannine Cavender-Bares, Charles Davis, Shan Kothari
| New Phytologist
Introduction The urgency of global biodiversity assessment is driving the application of reflectance spectroscopy as a broadly informative technology for advancing systematic knowledge of plant diversity at scales ranging from molecules to continents (Serbin et al., 2014; Cavender-Bares et al., 2017, 2025; Meireles et al., 2020a).
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