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Sapes, G.; Schroeder, L.; Scott, A.; Clark, I.; Juzwik, J.; Montgomery, R. A.; Guzmán Q, J. A.; Cavender-Bares, J. Mechanistic links between physiology and spectral reflectance enable previsual detection of oak wilt and drought stress. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2024, 121 (7), e2316164121. DOI:10.1073/pnas.2316164121

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