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FReD: The floral reflectance spectra database

Sarah E. J. Arnold¹, Vincent Savolainen², & Lars Chittka¹

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1. School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary, University of London
2. Imperial College, London and Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

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Received 30 April 2008 16:45 UTC; Posted 30 April 2008

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Evolution and Ecology, Bioinformatics

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• floral reflectance
• flower colour
• database
• colour vision
• colour
• Plants

Abstract:

Floral reflectance measurements are of great value to researchers who need consider the real colour of flowers, for example in the context of how the flowers appear to their pollinators. We have thus developed the Floral Reflectance Database (FReD) to assist these researchers, gathering together floral reflectance data in a publicly available, searchable online database. The first version of the database is now available online at http://www.reflectance.co.uk. We anticipate that this resource will be of interest to researchers working on flower colour and animal vision.

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Arnold, Sarah, Savolainen, Vincent, and Chittka, Lars. FReD: The floral reflectance spectra database. Available from Nature Precedings <http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/npre.2008.1846.1> (2008)

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