AVONET: morphological, ecological and geographical data for all birds

Joseph A Tobias^{1

2}, Catherine Sheard^{2

3}, Alex L Pigot^{2

4}, Adam J M Devenish¹, Jingyi Yang¹, Ferran Sayol⁴, Montague H C Neate-Clegg^{2

5}, Nico Alioravainen^{2

6}, Thomas L Weeks^{1

7}, Robert A Barber¹, Patrick A Walkden^{1

7}, Hannah E A MacGregor^{2

8}, Samuel E I Jones^{2

9}, Claire Vincent¹⁰, Anna G Phillips¹¹, Nicola M Marples¹², Flavia A Montaño-Centellas^{13

14}, Victor Leandro-Silva¹⁵, Santiago Claramunt^{16

17}, Bianca Darski¹⁸, Benjamin G Freeman¹⁹, Tom P Bregman^{2

20}, Christopher R Cooney²¹, Emma C Hughes²¹, Elliot J R Capp²¹, Zoë K Varley^{21

22}, Nicholas R Friedman²³, Heiko Korntheuer²⁴, Andrea Corrales-Vargas²⁵, Christopher H Trisos^{2

26

27}, Brian C Weeks^{28

29}, Dagmar M Hanz³⁰, Till Töpfer³¹, Gustavo A Bravo^{32

33}, Vladimír Remeš^{34

35}, Larissa Nowak^{11

36}, Lincoln S Carneiro³⁷, Amilkar J Moncada R³⁸, Beata Matysioková³⁴, Daniel T Baldassarre³⁹, Alejandra Martínez-Salinas³⁸, Jared D Wolfe⁴⁰, Philip M Chapman⁴¹, Benjamin G Daly², Marjorie C Sorensen⁴², Alexander Neu^{11

43}, Michael A Ford⁴⁴, Rebekah J Mayhew⁴⁵, Luis Fabio Silveira⁴⁶, David J Kelly¹², Nathaniel N D Annorbah⁴⁷, Henry S Pollock⁴⁸, Ada M Grabowska-Zhang⁴⁹, Jay P McEntee⁵⁰, Juan Carlos T Gonzalez^{2

51

52}, Camila G Meneses⁵¹, Marcia C Muñoz⁵³, Luke L Powell^{54

55

56}, Gabriel A Jamie^{57

58}, Thomas J Matthews^{59

60}, Oscar Johnson⁶¹, Guilherme R R Brito⁶², Kristof Zyskowski⁶³, Ross Crates⁶⁴, Michael G Harvey⁶⁵, Maura Jurado Zevallos⁶⁶, Peter A Hosner^{67

68}, Tom Bradfer-Lawrence⁴⁵, James M Maley⁶⁹, F Gary Stiles⁷⁰, Hevana S Lima⁷¹, Kaiya L Provost^{29

72}, Moses Chibesa⁷³, Mmatjie Mashao⁷⁴, Jeffrey T Howard^{61

75}, Edson Mlamba⁷⁶, Marcus A H Chua^{77

78}, Bicheng Li⁷⁹, M Isabel Gómez⁸⁰, Natalia C García⁸¹, Martin Päckert⁸², Jérôme Fuchs⁸³, Jarome R Ali⁸⁴, Elizabeth P Derryberry⁸⁵, Monica L Carlson⁸⁴, Rolly C Urriza⁸⁶, Kristin E Brzeski⁴⁰, Dewi M Prawiradilaga⁸⁷, Matt J Rayner^{88

89}, Eliot T Miller⁹⁰, Rauri C K Bowie⁹¹, René-Marie Lafontaine⁹², R Paul Scofield⁹³, Yingqiang Lou⁹⁴, Lankani Somarathna⁹⁵, Denis Lepage⁹⁶, Marshall Illif⁹⁰, Eike Lena Neuschulz¹¹, Mathias Templin¹¹, D Matthias Dehling⁹⁷, Jacob C Cooper⁹⁸, Olivier S G Pauwels⁹⁹, Kangkuso Analuddin¹⁰⁰, Jon Fjeldså^{67

68}, Nathalie Seddon¹⁰¹, Paul R Sweet²⁹, Fabrice A J DeClerck¹⁰², Luciano N Naka¹⁵, Jeffrey D Brawn⁴⁸, Alexandre Aleixo¹⁰³, Katrin Böhning-Gaese^{11

36}, Carsten Rahbek^{67

68

104

105}, Susanne A Fritz^{11

106}, Gavin H Thomas^{21

22}, Matthias Schleuning¹¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, Ascot, UK.
² Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
³ School of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK.
⁴ Centre for Biodiversity and Environment Research, Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London, London, UK.
⁵ School of Biological Sciences, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
⁶ Natural Resources Institute Finland, Natural resources - Migratory fish and regulated rivers, Oulu, Finland.
⁷ Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, London, UK.
⁸ School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK.
⁹ School of Biological Sciences, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, UK.
¹⁰ UN Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), Cambridge, UK.
¹¹ Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (SBiK-F), Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
¹² Department of Zoology, School of Natural Sciences, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.
¹³ Instituto de Ecología, Universidad Mayor de San Andres, La Paz, Bolivia.
¹⁴ Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA.
¹⁵ Laboratório de Ecologia e Evolução de Aves, Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil.
¹⁶ Department of Natural History, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
¹⁷ Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
¹⁸ Departamento de Ecologia, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil.
¹⁹ Biodiversity Research Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
²⁰ Future-Fit Foundation, Spitalfields, London, UK.
²¹ Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK.
²² Bird Group, Department of Life Sciences, The Natural History Museum, Tring, UK.
²³ Biodiversity and Biocomplexity Unit, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University, Kunigami-gun, Okinawa, Japan.
²⁴ Department of Ecology, Institute of Zoology, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz, Germany.
²⁵ Central American Institute for Studies on Toxic Substances (IRET), Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica, Heredia, Costa Rica.
²⁶ African Climate and Development Initiative, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
²⁷ Centre for Statistics in Ecology, the Environment and Conservation, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
²⁸ School for Environment and Sustainability, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
²⁹ Department of Ornithology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York, USA.
³⁰ Biogeography and Biodiversity Lab, Institute of Physical Geography, Goethe University Frankfurt, , Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
³¹ Ornithology Section, Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig, Bonn, Germany.
³² Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
³³ Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
³⁴ Department of Zoology, Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Republic.
³⁵ Department of Ecology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Praha, Czech Republic.
³⁶ Institute for Ecology, Evolution and Diversity, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
³⁷ Coordenação de Zoologia, Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, Belém, Pará, Brazil.
³⁸ CATIE (Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza), Cartago, Turrialba, Costa Rica.
³⁹ Department of Biological Sciences, SUNY Oswego, Oswego, New York, USA.
⁴⁰ College of Forest Resources and Environmental Science, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, Michigan, USA.
⁴¹ BSG Ecology, Worton Park, Worton, Witney, UK.
⁴² Department of Integrative Biology, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada.
⁴³ Department of Biological Sciences, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
⁴⁴ South African Ringing Unit, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, Cape Town, South Africa.
⁴⁵ Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Stirling, Stirling, UK.
⁴⁶ Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de Sao Paulo (MZUSP), São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
⁴⁷ Department of Biological, Physical and Mathematical Sciences, University of Environment and Sustainable Development, Somanya, Ghana.
⁴⁸ Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA.
⁴⁹ Department for Continuing Education, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
⁵⁰ Department of Biology, Missouri State University, Springfield, Missouri, USA.
⁵¹ Museum of Natural History, University of the Philippines Los, Baños, Los Baños, Laguna, Philippines.
⁵² Animal Biology Division, Institute of Biological Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences, University of the Philippines Los, Baños, Los Baños, Laguna, Philippines.
⁵³ Programa de Biología, Universidad de la Salle, Bogotá, Colombia.
⁵⁴ Institute of Animal Health and Comparative Medicine, Graham Kerr Building, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK.
⁵⁵ Biodiversity Initiative, Houghton, Michigan, USA.
⁵⁶ CIBIO-InBIO, Research Centre in Biodiversity and Genetic Resources, University of Porto, Vairão, Portugal.
⁵⁷ Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
⁵⁸ FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, Cape Town, South Africa.
⁵⁹ GEES (School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences) and Birmingham Institute of Forest Research, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.
⁶⁰ CE3C (Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes/Azorean Biodiversity Group and Universidade, dos Açores), Depto de Ciências Agráriase Engenharia do Ambiente, Angra do Heroísmo, Açores, Portugal.
⁶¹ Department of Biological Sciences and Museum of Natural Science, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisina, USA.
⁶² Depto. de Ecologia e Zoologia, Centro de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Brazil.
⁶³ Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.
⁶⁴ Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.
⁶⁵ Department of Biological Sciences and Biodiversity Collections, The University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas, USA.
⁶⁶ Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina, Av. La Molina s/n, La Molina, Lima, Peru.
⁶⁷ Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
⁶⁸ Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate, GLOBE Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
⁶⁹ Moore Laboratory of Zoology, Occidental College, Los Angeles, California, USA.
⁷⁰ Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia.
⁷¹ Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Manaus, Brazil.
⁷² Department of Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA.
⁷³ Department of Zoology and Aquatic Sciences, Copperbelt University, Kitwe, Zambia.
⁷⁴ Durban Natural Science Museum, Durban, South Africa.
⁷⁵ Louisiana State University, Health Sciences Center Shreveport, Shreveport, Louisina, USA.
⁷⁶ Department of Zoology, National Museums of Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya.
⁷⁷ Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore.
⁷⁸ Department of Environmental Science and Policy, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, USA.
⁷⁹ Natural History Research Center, Shanghai Natural History Museum, Shanghai, China.
⁸⁰ Colección Boliviana de Fauna - Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, Ministerio de Medio Ambiente y Agua, La Paz, Bolivia.
⁸¹ División Ornitología, Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales "Bernardino Rivadavia", CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
⁸² Senckenberg Natural History Collections, Museum of Zoology, Dresden, Germany.
⁸³ Institut de Systématique, Evolution, Biodiversité (ISYEB), Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, CNRS, SU, EPHE, UA, Paris, France.
⁸⁴ Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA.
⁸⁵ Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA.
⁸⁶ Ornithology Section, Zoology Division, Philippine National Museum, Rizal Park, Manila, Philippines.
⁸⁷ Museum Zoologicum Bogoriense, Research Centre for Biology, Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI), Bogor, Indonesia.
⁸⁸ Auckland Museum, Auckland, New Zealand.
⁸⁹ School of Biological Sciences, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.
⁹⁰ Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, New York, USA.
⁹¹ Museum of Vertebrate Zoology and Department of Integrative Biology, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA.
⁹² Operational Directorate Natural Environment, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS), Brussels, Belgium.
⁹³ Canterbury Museum, Christchurch, New Zealand.
⁹⁴ Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
⁹⁵ Natural History Section, Department of National Museum, Colombo, Sri Lanka.
⁹⁶ Birds Canada, Port Rowan, Ontario, Canada.
⁹⁷ Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland.
⁹⁸ University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, USA.
⁹⁹ Department of Recent Vertebrates, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS), Brussels, Belgium.
¹⁰⁰ Department of Biotechnology, Halu Oleo University, Kendari, Sulawesi Tenggara, Indonesia.
¹⁰¹ Nature-based Solutions Initiative, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
¹⁰² Bioversity International, CGIAR, Parc Scientifique Agropolis II, Montpellier, France.
¹⁰³ Finnish Museum of Natural History, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.
¹⁰⁴ Danish Institute for Advanced Study, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark.
¹⁰⁵ Institute of Ecology, Peking University, Beijing, China.
¹⁰⁶ Institut für Geowissenschaften, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

PMID: 35199922
DOI: 10.1111/ele.13898

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AVONET: morphological, ecological and geographical data for all birds

Joseph A Tobias et al. Ecol Lett. 2022 Mar.

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. 2022 Mar;25(3):581-597.

doi: 10.1111/ele.13898.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, Ascot, UK.
² Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
³ School of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK.
⁴ Centre for Biodiversity and Environment Research, Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London, London, UK.
⁵ School of Biological Sciences, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
⁶ Natural Resources Institute Finland, Natural resources - Migratory fish and regulated rivers, Oulu, Finland.
⁷ Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, London, UK.
⁸ School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK.
⁹ School of Biological Sciences, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, UK.
¹⁰ UN Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), Cambridge, UK.
¹¹ Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (SBiK-F), Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
¹² Department of Zoology, School of Natural Sciences, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.
¹³ Instituto de Ecología, Universidad Mayor de San Andres, La Paz, Bolivia.
¹⁴ Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA.
¹⁵ Laboratório de Ecologia e Evolução de Aves, Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil.
¹⁶ Department of Natural History, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
¹⁷ Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
¹⁸ Departamento de Ecologia, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil.
¹⁹ Biodiversity Research Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
²⁰ Future-Fit Foundation, Spitalfields, London, UK.
²¹ Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK.
²² Bird Group, Department of Life Sciences, The Natural History Museum, Tring, UK.
²³ Biodiversity and Biocomplexity Unit, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University, Kunigami-gun, Okinawa, Japan.
²⁴ Department of Ecology, Institute of Zoology, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz, Germany.
²⁵ Central American Institute for Studies on Toxic Substances (IRET), Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica, Heredia, Costa Rica.
²⁶ African Climate and Development Initiative, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
²⁷ Centre for Statistics in Ecology, the Environment and Conservation, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
²⁸ School for Environment and Sustainability, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
²⁹ Department of Ornithology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York, USA.
³⁰ Biogeography and Biodiversity Lab, Institute of Physical Geography, Goethe University Frankfurt, , Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
³¹ Ornithology Section, Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig, Bonn, Germany.
³² Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
³³ Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
³⁴ Department of Zoology, Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Republic.
³⁵ Department of Ecology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Praha, Czech Republic.
³⁶ Institute for Ecology, Evolution and Diversity, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
³⁷ Coordenação de Zoologia, Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, Belém, Pará, Brazil.
³⁸ CATIE (Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza), Cartago, Turrialba, Costa Rica.
³⁹ Department of Biological Sciences, SUNY Oswego, Oswego, New York, USA.
⁴⁰ College of Forest Resources and Environmental Science, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, Michigan, USA.
⁴¹ BSG Ecology, Worton Park, Worton, Witney, UK.
⁴² Department of Integrative Biology, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada.
⁴³ Department of Biological Sciences, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
⁴⁴ South African Ringing Unit, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, Cape Town, South Africa.
⁴⁵ Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Stirling, Stirling, UK.
⁴⁶ Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de Sao Paulo (MZUSP), São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
⁴⁷ Department of Biological, Physical and Mathematical Sciences, University of Environment and Sustainable Development, Somanya, Ghana.
⁴⁸ Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA.
⁴⁹ Department for Continuing Education, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
⁵⁰ Department of Biology, Missouri State University, Springfield, Missouri, USA.
⁵¹ Museum of Natural History, University of the Philippines Los, Baños, Los Baños, Laguna, Philippines.
⁵² Animal Biology Division, Institute of Biological Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences, University of the Philippines Los, Baños, Los Baños, Laguna, Philippines.
⁵³ Programa de Biología, Universidad de la Salle, Bogotá, Colombia.
⁵⁴ Institute of Animal Health and Comparative Medicine, Graham Kerr Building, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK.
⁵⁵ Biodiversity Initiative, Houghton, Michigan, USA.
⁵⁶ CIBIO-InBIO, Research Centre in Biodiversity and Genetic Resources, University of Porto, Vairão, Portugal.
⁵⁷ Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
⁵⁸ FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, Cape Town, South Africa.
⁵⁹ GEES (School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences) and Birmingham Institute of Forest Research, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.
⁶⁰ CE3C (Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes/Azorean Biodiversity Group and Universidade, dos Açores), Depto de Ciências Agráriase Engenharia do Ambiente, Angra do Heroísmo, Açores, Portugal.
⁶¹ Department of Biological Sciences and Museum of Natural Science, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisina, USA.
⁶² Depto. de Ecologia e Zoologia, Centro de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Brazil.
⁶³ Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.
⁶⁴ Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.
⁶⁵ Department of Biological Sciences and Biodiversity Collections, The University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas, USA.
⁶⁶ Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina, Av. La Molina s/n, La Molina, Lima, Peru.
⁶⁷ Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
⁶⁸ Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate, GLOBE Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
⁶⁹ Moore Laboratory of Zoology, Occidental College, Los Angeles, California, USA.
⁷⁰ Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia.
⁷¹ Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Manaus, Brazil.
⁷² Department of Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA.
⁷³ Department of Zoology and Aquatic Sciences, Copperbelt University, Kitwe, Zambia.
⁷⁴ Durban Natural Science Museum, Durban, South Africa.
⁷⁵ Louisiana State University, Health Sciences Center Shreveport, Shreveport, Louisina, USA.
⁷⁶ Department of Zoology, National Museums of Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya.
⁷⁷ Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore.
⁷⁸ Department of Environmental Science and Policy, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, USA.
⁷⁹ Natural History Research Center, Shanghai Natural History Museum, Shanghai, China.
⁸⁰ Colección Boliviana de Fauna - Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, Ministerio de Medio Ambiente y Agua, La Paz, Bolivia.
⁸¹ División Ornitología, Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales "Bernardino Rivadavia", CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
⁸² Senckenberg Natural History Collections, Museum of Zoology, Dresden, Germany.
⁸³ Institut de Systématique, Evolution, Biodiversité (ISYEB), Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, CNRS, SU, EPHE, UA, Paris, France.
⁸⁴ Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA.
⁸⁵ Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA.
⁸⁶ Ornithology Section, Zoology Division, Philippine National Museum, Rizal Park, Manila, Philippines.
⁸⁷ Museum Zoologicum Bogoriense, Research Centre for Biology, Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI), Bogor, Indonesia.
⁸⁸ Auckland Museum, Auckland, New Zealand.
⁸⁹ School of Biological Sciences, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.
⁹⁰ Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, New York, USA.
⁹¹ Museum of Vertebrate Zoology and Department of Integrative Biology, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA.
⁹² Operational Directorate Natural Environment, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS), Brussels, Belgium.
⁹³ Canterbury Museum, Christchurch, New Zealand.
⁹⁴ Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
⁹⁵ Natural History Section, Department of National Museum, Colombo, Sri Lanka.
⁹⁶ Birds Canada, Port Rowan, Ontario, Canada.
⁹⁷ Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland.
⁹⁸ University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, USA.
⁹⁹ Department of Recent Vertebrates, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS), Brussels, Belgium.
¹⁰⁰ Department of Biotechnology, Halu Oleo University, Kendari, Sulawesi Tenggara, Indonesia.
¹⁰¹ Nature-based Solutions Initiative, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
¹⁰² Bioversity International, CGIAR, Parc Scientifique Agropolis II, Montpellier, France.
¹⁰³ Finnish Museum of Natural History, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.
¹⁰⁴ Danish Institute for Advanced Study, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark.
¹⁰⁵ Institute of Ecology, Peking University, Beijing, China.
¹⁰⁶ Institut für Geowissenschaften, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

PMID: 35199922
DOI: 10.1111/ele.13898

Abstract

Functional traits offer a rich quantitative framework for developing and testing theories in evolutionary biology, ecology and ecosystem science. However, the potential of functional traits to drive theoretical advances and refine models of global change can only be fully realised when species-level information is complete. Here we present the AVONET dataset containing comprehensive functional trait data for all birds, including six ecological variables, 11 continuous morphological traits, and information on range size and location. Raw morphological measurements are presented from 90,020 individuals of 11,009 extant bird species sampled from 181 countries. These data are also summarised as species averages in three taxonomic formats, allowing integration with a global phylogeny, geographical range maps, IUCN Red List data and the eBird citizen science database. The AVONET dataset provides the most detailed picture of continuous trait variation for any major radiation of organisms, offering a global template for testing hypotheses and exploring the evolutionary origins, structure and functioning of biodiversity.

Keywords: avian traits; continuous variables; data integration; ecomorphology; functional diversity; macroecology; macroevolution; trait-based ecology.

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