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ArticleApplications in plant sciences

Garryanalyzer: A morphometric workflow and open-source ImageJ plug-in for quantitative morphological analysis of Pacific Northwest

Ziqi Xie, Tan Bahar, Keith Karoly

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Ziqi XieBiology Department Reed College Portland 97202 Oregon USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0007-4933-5126
Tan BaharBiology Department Reed College Portland 97202 Oregon USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0004-8110-2267
Keith KarolyBiology Department Reed College Portland 97202 Oregon USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0000-2067-0982

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Premise: Accurate species identification is crucial for ecological restoration and can be especially challenging for understudied non-model species. Methods: We measured leaf morphological traits sampled from herbarium collections in their native ranges using the digital morphometric tools MorphoLeaf and Tomato Analyzer. We then used Lasso logistic analysis to generate a predictive model and tested it on leaves from Portland, Oregon. To streamline this species detection process, we developed Garryanalyzer, an ImageJ plug-in that automatically measures leaf traits and outputs species predictions. Results: Garryanalyzer demonstrated 95% accuracy in predicting the species identity of herbarium specimens of oaks. Garryanalyzer correctly identified all Discussion: Many existing morphometric software are not open source, which makes them unable to be customized to specific study systems. Garryanalyzer is built upon the widely used open-source ImageJ platform. This study also demonstrates a viable workflow for developing similar tools for other ecologically important non-model plant species.

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applied ecologyconservation biologydigital morphometricsnon‐native speciesoak morphologyspecies identification

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PMCPMC13495981

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