A comparison of interspecific and intraspecific phenotypic variation in spectral signatures of ferns with robust versus uncertain species boundaries.

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Species delimitation methods based on macromorphology are often limited by phenotypic plasticity in plants. Fourier Transform near-infrared spectroscopy (FT-NIR) provides a promising alternative as a non-destructive technique that measures molecular vibrations (overtone and combination bands of C-H, N-H, and O-H bonds) from plant tissue exposed to near-infrared light (780-2,500 nm). We applied FT-NIR to the...

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