IHerbSpec

Dec 1, 2024

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First IHerbSpec Symposium. Image credit © 2025 Harvard University.

International Herbarium Spectral Scanning (IHerbSpec) Working Group

Description

The International Herbarium Spectral Digitization Working Group (IHerbSpec) is a global consortium advancing standardized methods for collecting and using reflectance spectra from herbarium specimens.

Our goal is to support integrative plant biodiversity research by harmonizing measurement workflows, metadata standards, and data-sharing practices.

Find out more on the IHerbSpec website.

Current-as-partner

Caroline C. Vasconcelos

Research Fellow

My research interests include taxonomy and systematics (especially neotropical Sapotaceae), spectroscopy as a integrative tools, Amazonian flora, species distribution modeling, floristic studies, and tropical forest ecology.

Publications

Next-generation specimen digitization: capturing reflectance spectra from the worlds herbaria for modeling plant biology across time, space, and taxa

Spectral reflectance measured from herbarium specimens represents a potentially vast source of information relevant to plant taxon …

Jeannine Cavender-Bares, Dawson M. White, Natalie I. Ahlstrand, Matthew Austin, Denis Bastianelli, Samantha Bazan, Khalil Boughalmi, Warren Cardinal-McTeague, Eduardo Chacón-Madrigal, Thomas L. P. Couvreur, Charles Davis, Flávia M. Durgante, Olwen M. Grace, Antonio Guzmán, Kimberly Hansen, Mariana S. Hernández-Leal, Mike J. G. Hopkins, Rykkar Jackson, Shan Kothari, Aaron K. Lee, Étienne Léveillé-Bourret, Jesús Pinto-Ledezma, Natalia L. Quinteros Casaverde, Jose E. Meireles, Barbara Neto-Bradley, Cornelius O. Nichodemus, Richard H. Ree, Michaela Schmull, Douglas E. Soltis, Pamela S. Soltis, Hanna Tuomisto, Susan Ustin, Caroline C. Vasconcelos

Next-generation specimen digitization: capturing reflectance spectra from the worlds herbaria for modeling plant biology across time, space, and taxa

IHerbSpec Protocol v1.0

Reflectance spectroscopy is a powerful, broadly integrative tool for capturing plant phenotypes, but variation in instrumentation and …

Dawson M. White, Natalie I. Ahlstrand, Matthew Austin, Denis Bastianelli, Samantha Bazan, Khalil Boughalmi, Warren Cardinal-McTeague, Thomas L. P. Couvreur, Flávia M. Durgante, Olwen M. Grace, Antonio Guzmán, Kimberly Hansen, Michael Hopkins, Rykkar Jackson, Jonathan A. Kennedy, Shan Kothari, Aaron K. Lee, Étienne Léveillé-Bourret, Jose E. Meireles, Barbara Neto-Bradley, Cornelius O. Nichodemus, Natalia L. Quinteros Casaverde, Carlos Rodrigues-Vaz, Michaela Schmull, Pamela S. Soltis, Daniel Spalink, Caroline C. Vasconcelos, Jéssica L. Viana, Hanna Tuomisto, Tom Wells, Jeannine Cavender-Bares

IHerbSpec Protocol v1.0

NextGeneration specimen digitization: The international herbarium community goes spectral!

1. Spectral reflectance measured from herbarium specimens represents a vast source of plant phenotypic and functional trait data. 2. …

Jeannine Cavender-Bares, Dawson M. White, Natalie I. Ahlstrand, Matthew Austin, Denis Bastianelli, Samantha Bazan, Khalil Boughalmi, Warren Cardinal-McTeague, Eduardo Chacón-Madrigal, Thomas L. P. Couvreur, Charles Davis, Flávia M. Durgante, Olwen M. Grace, Antonio Guzmán, Kimberly Hansen, Mariana S. Hernández-Leal, Mike J. G. Hopkins, Rykkar Jackson, Shan Kothari, Aaron K. Lee, Étienne Léveillé-Bourret, Jesús Pinto-Ledezma, Natalia L. Quinteros Casaverde, Jose E. Meireles, Barbara Neto-Bradley, Cornelius O. Nichodemus, Michaela Schmull, Douglas E. Soltis, Pamela S. Soltis, Hanna Tuomisto, Susan Ustin, Caroline C. Vasconcelos

NextGeneration specimen digitization: The international herbarium community goes spectral!