Herbarium-based measurements reliably estimate three functional traits.

Timothy M PerezJessica RodriguezJacob Mason Heberling

Published in: American journal of botany (2020)

Herbarium-derived traits cannot always be used interchangeably with those measured from fresh tissues because of tissue shrinkage. However, herbarium-derived trait data still have the potential to drastically expand the temporal, geographic, and taxonomic scope of global trait databases.

Keyphrases

genome wide
dna methylation
big data
gene expression
electronic health record
machine learning
climate change