The global spectrum of plant form and function: enhanced species-level trait dataset
Affiliations
- 1 Consejo Nacional de investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Vegetal (IMBIV), Córdoba, Argentina. sandra.diaz@unc.edu.ar.
- 2 Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Casilla de Correo 495, 5000, Córdoba, Argentina. sandra.diaz@unc.edu.ar.
- 3 Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Hans-Knöll Str. 10, 07745, Jena, Germany. jkattge@bgc-jena.mpg.de.
- 4 German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany. jkattge@bgc-jena.mpg.de.
- 5 A-LIFE, section Systems Ecology, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
- 6 Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Locked Bag 1797, Penrith, NSW, 2751, Australia.
- 7 School of Natural Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, 2109, Australia.
- 8 Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, Univ. Savoie Mont Blanc, LECA, Grenoble, France.
- 9 Univ Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, CNRS, Laboratoire de Biométrie et Biologie Evolutive, F-69100, Villeurbanne, France.
- 10 Escuela de Biología, Universidad Industrial de Santander, Cra. 27 Calle 9, 680002, Bucaramanga, Colombia.
- 11 Landscape Ecology Group, Inst. of Biology and Environmental Sciences, University of Oldenburg, 26111, Oldenburg, Germany.
- 12 Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Hans-Knöll Str. 10, 07745, Jena, Germany.
- 13 German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.
- 14 University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.
- 15 Georgina Mace Centre for the Living Planet, Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, Silwood Park Campus, Buckhurst Road, Ascot, SL5 7PY, UK.
- 16 Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Earth System Modelling, Department of Earth System Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China.
- 17 CEFE, Univ Montpellier, CNRS, EPHE, IRD, Montpellier, France.
- 18 Plant Sciences (IBG2), Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich, Germany.
- 19 Department of Forest Resources, 1530 Cleveland Ave. N., University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, 55108, USA.
- 20 Institute for Global Change Biology and School for Environment and Sustainability, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA.
- 21 Evolution & Ecology Research Centre, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, UNSW, Sydney, NSW, 2052, Australia.
- 22 Wellcome Trust Millennium Building, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, Wakehurst Place, Ardingly, West Sussex, RH17 6TN, UK.
- 23 Department of Biology, University of Miami, Miami, FL, 33146, USA.
- 24 Department of Biological Sciences, George Washington University, Washington, DC, 20052, USA.
- 25 Laboratoire Evolution et Diversité Biologique UMR 5174 CNRS, IRD, Université Paul Sabatier, 31062, Toulouse, France.
- 26 Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panamá, Panama.
- 27 Komarov Botanical Institute RAS, Saint Petersburg, Russia.
- 28 INRAE, University of Bordeaux, BIOGECO, F-33610, Cestas, France.
- 29 International Center for Tropical Botany, Department of Biological Sciences, Florida International University, Miami, FL, 33199, USA.
- 30 Department of Biotechnologies and Life Sciences (DBSV), University of Insubria, via Dunant 3, IT-21100, Varese, Italy.
- 31 Department of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences (DiSAA), University of Milan, via Celoria 2, Milan, IT-20133, Italy.
- 32 Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada.
- 33 CATIE-Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza, Turrialba, Costa Rica.
- 34 University of Zurich Department of Geography, Winterthurerstrasse 190, 8057, Zürich, Switzerland.
- 35 Consejo Nacional de investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Vegetal (IMBIV), Córdoba, Argentina.
- 36 Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Casilla de Correo 495, 5000, Córdoba, Argentina.
- 37 Department of Economics, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.
- 38 Remote Sensing Centre for Earth System Research, Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany.
- 39 Université de Lorraine, Lorraine, France.
- 40 Division of Plant Sciences, Research School of Biology, Australian National University, Canberra, 2601, ACT, Australia.
- 41 Department of Ecology, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria.
- 42 University of California, Berkeley, USA.
- 43 Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Department of Computational Landscape Ecology, 04318, Leipzig, Germany.
- 44 Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA.
- 45 Environmental Change Institute, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, United Kingdom.
- 46 University of CapeTown, Biological Sciences, Rondebosch, 7701, Cape Town, South Africa.
- 47 South African Environmental Observation Network, c/o Fynbos node, Private Bag X7, Claremont, 7735, South Africa.
- 48 Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Joint Global Change Research Institute at the University of Maryland-College Park, College Park, MD, 20740, USA.
- 49 Kingston University London, Department of Geography, Geology and the Environment, Kingston Upon Thames, UK.
- 50 Department of Environmental Biology, Sapienza University of Rome, Roma, Italy.
- 51 Department of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, Andong National University, Andong, 36729, Korea.
- 52 School of Biosciences & Veterinary Medicine - Plant Diversity and Ecosystems Management Unit, University of Camerino, Camerino, Italy.
- 53 Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, MN, 55108, USA.
- 54 Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, 99775, USA.
- 55 Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge Conservation Initiative, Pembroke St, Cambridge, CB2, UK.
- 56 Jonah Ventures, Boulder, CO, 80301, USA.
- 57 Centro de Modelación y Monitoreo de Ecosistemas, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Mayor, Santiago, Chile.
- 58 Institute for Alpine Environment, Eurac Research, Viale Druso 1, 39100, Bozen/Bolzano, Italy.
- 59 Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária (EMBRAPA), Belém, PA, CEP 66095-100, Brazil.
- 60 Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
- 61 Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras - Universidade de São Paulo - Depto. de Biologia, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil.
- 62 Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 85721, USA.
- 63 The Santa Fe Institute 1399 Hyde Park Rd., Santa Fe, NM, 87501, USA.
- 64 Biology department, BioCost group, Centro interdisciplinar de química y biología CICA, University of A Coruña, 15071A, Coruña, Spain.
- 65 Institute of Ecology, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, and Key Laboratory for Earth Surface Processes of the Ministry of Education, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China.
- 66 Grupo de Investigación en Biodiversidad y Dinámica de Ecosistémas Tropicales - Universidad del Tolima, Ibagué, Colombia.
- 67 Centro Forestal Tropical Bajo Calima, Universidad del Tolima, Buenaventura, Costa Rica.
- 68 Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Av. André Araújo, 2.936 - Petrópolis - CEP, 69067-375, Manaus, AM, Brasil.
- 69 Ecological Flora of the British Isles, Bath, UK.
- 70 Université de Rouen Normandie- INRAE, 76000, Rouen, France.
- 71 Theoretical and Experimental Ecology Station, CNRS, Paul Sabatier University, 09200, Moulis, France.
- 72 IMBE, Aix Marseille Univ, CNRS, IRD, Avignon Univ, Marseille, France.
- 73 Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 02138, USA.
- 74 School of Biological Sciences, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, 5005, Australia.
- 75 Departamento de Ciencias Ambientales y Recursos Naturales Renovables, Facultad de Ciencias Agronómicas, Universidad de Chile, Av. Santa Rosa 11315, La Pintana, 8820808, Santiago, Chile.
- 76 Institute of Ecology and Biodiversity (IEB), Concepción, Chile.
- 77 University of Reading, Reading, UK.
- 78 Nova Pioneer, Global Systems and Analytics, Paulshof, Gauteng, South Africa.
- 79 School of Molecular and Life Sciences, Curtin University, Perth, WA, Australia.
- 80 College of Science, Health, Engineering and Education, Murdoch University, Murdoch, WA, Australia.
- 81 Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (SBiK-F), Senckenberganalge 25, 60325, Frankfurt/Main, Germany.
- 82 Institut of Physcial Geography, Goethe University, Altenhöferallee 1, 60438, Frankfurt/Main, Germany.
- 83 Plant Ecology, University of Bayreuth, 95447, Bayreuth, Germany.
- 84 Santa Catarina State University, Lages, SC, Brazil.
- 85 University of Melbourne, Melburne, Australia.
- 86 CSIRO, Melburne, Canada.
- 87 Department of Earth System Science, Woods Institute for the Environment, and Precourt Institute for Energy, Stanford, CA, USA.
- 88 Research Institute of Forests and Rangeland, Agricultural Research, Education and Extension Organization (AREEO), Tehran, Iran.
- 89 Institue of Systematic Botany and Ecology, Ulm University, Albert-Einstein-Allee 11, 89081, Ulm, Germany.
- 90 Graduate School of Environment and Information Sciences, Yokohama National University, Yokohama, 240-8501, Japan.
- 91 Institute for Biochemistry and Biology, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany.
- 92 Biodiversity, Macroecology & Biogeography, University of Goettingen, Büsgenweg 1, D-37077, Göttingen, Germany.
- 93 Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Los Angeles, 621 Charles E. Young Drive South, Los Angeles, California, 90095, USA.
- 94 Wageningen University, Droevendaalsesteeg 4, 6700AA, Wageningen, Netherlands.
- 95 Land Life Company, Mauritskade 63, 1092AD, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
- 96 Centre of Biodiversity and Sustainable Land Use (CBL), University of Goettingen, Büsgenweg 1, D-37077, Göttingen, Germany.
- 97 Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Dept. Community Ecology, Theodor-Lieser-Str. 4, 06120, Halle, Germany.
- 98 Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Geobotany and Botanical Garden, Am Kirchtor 1, 06108, Halle, Germany.
- 99 Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, Tsukuba, 305-8687, Japan.
- 100 Department of Plant Sciences, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada.
- 101 Department of Botany, University of Wyoming, 1000 East University Ave, Laramie, WY, 82071, USA.
- 102 School of Geography, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.
- 103 Université Clermont Auvergne, INRAE, VetAgro Sup, UMR Ecosystème Prairial, 63000, Clermont Ferrand, France.
- 104 Instituto de Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde, Universidade Federal de Alagoas, Maceió, AL, 57072-900, Brazil.
- 105 Department of Biological Sciences, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway.
- 106 School of Geosciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH93FF, United Kingdom.
- 107 CREAF, Cerdanyola del Vallès, 08193, Catalonia, Spain.
- 108 ICREA, Pg. Lluís Companys 23, 08010, Barcelona, Spain.
- 109 Department of Biology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, N2L 3G1, Canada.
- 110 Forest Products Lab, USDA Forest Service, Madison, Wisconsin, USA.
- 111 Department of Biology, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Pleinlaan 2, 1050, Brussels, Belgium.
- 112 Department of Plant Biology, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, 05405, USA.
- 113 Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología (IPE-CSIC), Av. Montañana, 1005, 50059, Zaragoza, Spain.
- 114 Biodiverstiy and Conservation Biology, Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Birmensdorf, 8903, Switzerland.
- 115 Geobotany, Faculty of Biology, University of Freiburg, Schänzlestr. 1, 79104, Freiburg, Germany.
- 116 Estonian University of Life Sciences, Kreutzwaldi 1, Tartu, 51006, Estonia.
- 117 Estonian Academy of Sciences, Kohtu 6, Tallinn, 10130, Estonia.
- 118 CSIC, Global Ecology Unit CREAF-CSIC-UAB, Bellaterra, 08193, Catalonia, Spain.
- 119 Institute of Biology Bucharest, Romanian Academy, 060031, Bucharest, Romania.
- 120 Institute of Ecology and Botany, Centre for Ecological Research, 2163, Vácrátót, Hungary.
- 121 Department of Ecology and Plant Geography, Faculty of Biology, Moscow Lomonosov State University, 119234, Moscow, Russia.
- 122 Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Kyoto, 606-8502, Japan.
- 123 Wageningen Environmental Research, PO Box 47, NL-6700 AA Wageningen, Wageningen, Netherlands.
- 124 Centro de Investigaciones sobre Desertificación, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CIDE-CSIC), Valencia, 46113, Spain.
- 125 Centro de Investigacion en Biodiversidad y Cambio Global (CIBC-UAM), Departamento de Ecología, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, E-28049, Madrid, Spain.
- 126 Department of Ecology, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS, 91501-970, Brazil.
- 127 Snow and Mountain Research Center of Andorra, Andorran Research + Innovation, Avda. Rocafort 21-23 Sant Julià de Lòria, Principality of Andorra, Julià de Lòria, Andorra.
- 128 Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Friedrich-Schiller University Jena, Philosophenweg 16, D-07743, Jena, Germany.
- 129 Instituto de Ciencias de la Naturaleza, Territorio y Energías Renovables, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima, Peru.
- 130 Department of Biology, Santa Clara University, 500 El Camino Real, Santa Clara, CA, 95053, USA.
- 131 Department of Biology, Algoma University, Sault Ste, Marie, Ontario, P6A 6J8, Canada.
- 132 Landscape Dynamics, Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Birmensdorf, 8903, Switzerland.
- 133 Department of Global Liberal Studies, Faculty of Global Liberal Studies, Nanzan University, Aichi, 466-8673, Japan.
- 134 Center for Southeast Asian Studies (CSEAS), Kyoto University, 46 Shimoadachi-cho, Yoshida, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, 606-8501, Japan.
- 135 Embrapa Clima Temperado, Pelotas, RS, Brazil.
- 136 Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Hasselt, Belgium.
- 137 Institute of Environmental Sciences, Leiden University, Einsteinweg 2, 2333 CC, Leiden, Netherlands.
- 138 Department of Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology, University of California Riverside, Riverside, California, 92521, USA.
- 139 School of Biological Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, AB24 3FX, UK.
- 140 Department of Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, 46556, USA.
- 141 Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Western Bank, Sheffield, S10 2TN, UK.
- 142 Département de biologie des organismes et écologie, Université libre de Bruxelles, Roosevelt, Belgique.
- 143 Departamento de Ciencias Naturales y Tecnología, Universidad de Aysén, Coyhaique, Chile.
- 144 Center for Climate and Resilience Research CR2, Santiago, Chile.
- 145 National Museum of Natural Sciences, MNCN, CSIC, Serrano 115, 28006, Madrid, Spain.
- 146 University Rey Juan Carlos, Mostoles, Área de Biodiversidad y Conservación C/Tulipán sn, 28033, Móstoles, Madrid, Spain.
- 147 LEPSE, Univ Montpellier, INRAE, Institut Agro, Montpellier, France.
- 148 Forest & Nature Lab, Department of Environment, Ghent University, Geraardsbergsesteenweg 267, B-9090, Melle-Gontrode, Belgium.
- 149 National Science Foundation, Division of Environmental Biology, Alexandria, VA, 22314, USA.
- 150 Department of Biology, University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire, Eau Claire, WI, 54702, USA.
- 151 Department of Biology, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA.
- 152 Functional Ecology Group, Inst. of Biology and Environmental Sciences, University of Oldenburg, 26111, Oldenburg, Germany.
- PMID: 36477373
- PMCID: PMC9729214
- DOI: 10.1038/s41597-022-01774-9
The global spectrum of plant form and function: enhanced species-level trait dataset
Authors
Affiliations
- 1 Consejo Nacional de investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Vegetal (IMBIV), Córdoba, Argentina. sandra.diaz@unc.edu.ar.
- 2 Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Casilla de Correo 495, 5000, Córdoba, Argentina. sandra.diaz@unc.edu.ar.
- 3 Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Hans-Knöll Str. 10, 07745, Jena, Germany. jkattge@bgc-jena.mpg.de.
- 4 German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany. jkattge@bgc-jena.mpg.de.
- 5 A-LIFE, section Systems Ecology, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
- 6 Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Locked Bag 1797, Penrith, NSW, 2751, Australia.
- 7 School of Natural Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, 2109, Australia.
- 8 Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, Univ. Savoie Mont Blanc, LECA, Grenoble, France.
- 9 Univ Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, CNRS, Laboratoire de Biométrie et Biologie Evolutive, F-69100, Villeurbanne, France.
- 10 Escuela de Biología, Universidad Industrial de Santander, Cra. 27 Calle 9, 680002, Bucaramanga, Colombia.
- 11 Landscape Ecology Group, Inst. of Biology and Environmental Sciences, University of Oldenburg, 26111, Oldenburg, Germany.
- 12 Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Hans-Knöll Str. 10, 07745, Jena, Germany.
- 13 German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.
- 14 University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.
- 15 Georgina Mace Centre for the Living Planet, Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, Silwood Park Campus, Buckhurst Road, Ascot, SL5 7PY, UK.
- 16 Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Earth System Modelling, Department of Earth System Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China.
- 17 CEFE, Univ Montpellier, CNRS, EPHE, IRD, Montpellier, France.
- 18 Plant Sciences (IBG2), Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich, Germany.
- 19 Department of Forest Resources, 1530 Cleveland Ave. N., University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, 55108, USA.
- 20 Institute for Global Change Biology and School for Environment and Sustainability, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA.
- 21 Evolution & Ecology Research Centre, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, UNSW, Sydney, NSW, 2052, Australia.
- 22 Wellcome Trust Millennium Building, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, Wakehurst Place, Ardingly, West Sussex, RH17 6TN, UK.
- 23 Department of Biology, University of Miami, Miami, FL, 33146, USA.
- 24 Department of Biological Sciences, George Washington University, Washington, DC, 20052, USA.
- 25 Laboratoire Evolution et Diversité Biologique UMR 5174 CNRS, IRD, Université Paul Sabatier, 31062, Toulouse, France.
- 26 Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panamá, Panama.
- 27 Komarov Botanical Institute RAS, Saint Petersburg, Russia.
- 28 INRAE, University of Bordeaux, BIOGECO, F-33610, Cestas, France.
- 29 International Center for Tropical Botany, Department of Biological Sciences, Florida International University, Miami, FL, 33199, USA.
- 30 Department of Biotechnologies and Life Sciences (DBSV), University of Insubria, via Dunant 3, IT-21100, Varese, Italy.
- 31 Department of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences (DiSAA), University of Milan, via Celoria 2, Milan, IT-20133, Italy.
- 32 Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada.
- 33 CATIE-Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza, Turrialba, Costa Rica.
- 34 University of Zurich Department of Geography, Winterthurerstrasse 190, 8057, Zürich, Switzerland.
- 35 Consejo Nacional de investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Vegetal (IMBIV), Córdoba, Argentina.
- 36 Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Casilla de Correo 495, 5000, Córdoba, Argentina.
- 37 Department of Economics, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.
- 38 Remote Sensing Centre for Earth System Research, Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany.
- 39 Université de Lorraine, Lorraine, France.
- 40 Division of Plant Sciences, Research School of Biology, Australian National University, Canberra, 2601, ACT, Australia.
- 41 Department of Ecology, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria.
- 42 University of California, Berkeley, USA.
- 43 Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Department of Computational Landscape Ecology, 04318, Leipzig, Germany.
- 44 Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA.
- 45 Environmental Change Institute, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, United Kingdom.
- 46 University of CapeTown, Biological Sciences, Rondebosch, 7701, Cape Town, South Africa.
- 47 South African Environmental Observation Network, c/o Fynbos node, Private Bag X7, Claremont, 7735, South Africa.
- 48 Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Joint Global Change Research Institute at the University of Maryland-College Park, College Park, MD, 20740, USA.
- 49 Kingston University London, Department of Geography, Geology and the Environment, Kingston Upon Thames, UK.
- 50 Department of Environmental Biology, Sapienza University of Rome, Roma, Italy.
- 51 Department of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, Andong National University, Andong, 36729, Korea.
- 52 School of Biosciences & Veterinary Medicine - Plant Diversity and Ecosystems Management Unit, University of Camerino, Camerino, Italy.
- 53 Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, MN, 55108, USA.
- 54 Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, 99775, USA.
- 55 Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge Conservation Initiative, Pembroke St, Cambridge, CB2, UK.
- 56 Jonah Ventures, Boulder, CO, 80301, USA.
- 57 Centro de Modelación y Monitoreo de Ecosistemas, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Mayor, Santiago, Chile.
- 58 Institute for Alpine Environment, Eurac Research, Viale Druso 1, 39100, Bozen/Bolzano, Italy.
- 59 Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária (EMBRAPA), Belém, PA, CEP 66095-100, Brazil.
- 60 Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
- 61 Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras - Universidade de São Paulo - Depto. de Biologia, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil.
- 62 Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 85721, USA.
- 63 The Santa Fe Institute 1399 Hyde Park Rd., Santa Fe, NM, 87501, USA.
- 64 Biology department, BioCost group, Centro interdisciplinar de química y biología CICA, University of A Coruña, 15071A, Coruña, Spain.
- 65 Institute of Ecology, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, and Key Laboratory for Earth Surface Processes of the Ministry of Education, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China.
- 66 Grupo de Investigación en Biodiversidad y Dinámica de Ecosistémas Tropicales - Universidad del Tolima, Ibagué, Colombia.
- 67 Centro Forestal Tropical Bajo Calima, Universidad del Tolima, Buenaventura, Costa Rica.
- 68 Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Av. André Araújo, 2.936 - Petrópolis - CEP, 69067-375, Manaus, AM, Brasil.
- 69 Ecological Flora of the British Isles, Bath, UK.
- 70 Université de Rouen Normandie- INRAE, 76000, Rouen, France.
- 71 Theoretical and Experimental Ecology Station, CNRS, Paul Sabatier University, 09200, Moulis, France.
- 72 IMBE, Aix Marseille Univ, CNRS, IRD, Avignon Univ, Marseille, France.
- 73 Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 02138, USA.
- 74 School of Biological Sciences, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, 5005, Australia.
- 75 Departamento de Ciencias Ambientales y Recursos Naturales Renovables, Facultad de Ciencias Agronómicas, Universidad de Chile, Av. Santa Rosa 11315, La Pintana, 8820808, Santiago, Chile.
- 76 Institute of Ecology and Biodiversity (IEB), Concepción, Chile.
- 77 University of Reading, Reading, UK.
- 78 Nova Pioneer, Global Systems and Analytics, Paulshof, Gauteng, South Africa.
- 79 School of Molecular and Life Sciences, Curtin University, Perth, WA, Australia.
- 80 College of Science, Health, Engineering and Education, Murdoch University, Murdoch, WA, Australia.
- 81 Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (SBiK-F), Senckenberganalge 25, 60325, Frankfurt/Main, Germany.
- 82 Institut of Physcial Geography, Goethe University, Altenhöferallee 1, 60438, Frankfurt/Main, Germany.
- 83 Plant Ecology, University of Bayreuth, 95447, Bayreuth, Germany.
- 84 Santa Catarina State University, Lages, SC, Brazil.
- 85 University of Melbourne, Melburne, Australia.
- 86 CSIRO, Melburne, Canada.
- 87 Department of Earth System Science, Woods Institute for the Environment, and Precourt Institute for Energy, Stanford, CA, USA.
- 88 Research Institute of Forests and Rangeland, Agricultural Research, Education and Extension Organization (AREEO), Tehran, Iran.
- 89 Institue of Systematic Botany and Ecology, Ulm University, Albert-Einstein-Allee 11, 89081, Ulm, Germany.
- 90 Graduate School of Environment and Information Sciences, Yokohama National University, Yokohama, 240-8501, Japan.
- 91 Institute for Biochemistry and Biology, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany.
- 92 Biodiversity, Macroecology & Biogeography, University of Goettingen, Büsgenweg 1, D-37077, Göttingen, Germany.
- 93 Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Los Angeles, 621 Charles E. Young Drive South, Los Angeles, California, 90095, USA.
- 94 Wageningen University, Droevendaalsesteeg 4, 6700AA, Wageningen, Netherlands.
- 95 Land Life Company, Mauritskade 63, 1092AD, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
- 96 Centre of Biodiversity and Sustainable Land Use (CBL), University of Goettingen, Büsgenweg 1, D-37077, Göttingen, Germany.
- 97 Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Dept. Community Ecology, Theodor-Lieser-Str. 4, 06120, Halle, Germany.
- 98 Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Geobotany and Botanical Garden, Am Kirchtor 1, 06108, Halle, Germany.
- 99 Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, Tsukuba, 305-8687, Japan.
- 100 Department of Plant Sciences, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada.
- 101 Department of Botany, University of Wyoming, 1000 East University Ave, Laramie, WY, 82071, USA.
- 102 School of Geography, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.
- 103 Université Clermont Auvergne, INRAE, VetAgro Sup, UMR Ecosystème Prairial, 63000, Clermont Ferrand, France.
- 104 Instituto de Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde, Universidade Federal de Alagoas, Maceió, AL, 57072-900, Brazil.
- 105 Department of Biological Sciences, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway.
- 106 School of Geosciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH93FF, United Kingdom.
- 107 CREAF, Cerdanyola del Vallès, 08193, Catalonia, Spain.
- 108 ICREA, Pg. Lluís Companys 23, 08010, Barcelona, Spain.
- 109 Department of Biology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, N2L 3G1, Canada.
- 110 Forest Products Lab, USDA Forest Service, Madison, Wisconsin, USA.
- 111 Department of Biology, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Pleinlaan 2, 1050, Brussels, Belgium.
- 112 Department of Plant Biology, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, 05405, USA.
- 113 Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología (IPE-CSIC), Av. Montañana, 1005, 50059, Zaragoza, Spain.
- 114 Biodiverstiy and Conservation Biology, Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Birmensdorf, 8903, Switzerland.
- 115 Geobotany, Faculty of Biology, University of Freiburg, Schänzlestr. 1, 79104, Freiburg, Germany.
- 116 Estonian University of Life Sciences, Kreutzwaldi 1, Tartu, 51006, Estonia.
- 117 Estonian Academy of Sciences, Kohtu 6, Tallinn, 10130, Estonia.
- 118 CSIC, Global Ecology Unit CREAF-CSIC-UAB, Bellaterra, 08193, Catalonia, Spain.
- 119 Institute of Biology Bucharest, Romanian Academy, 060031, Bucharest, Romania.
- 120 Institute of Ecology and Botany, Centre for Ecological Research, 2163, Vácrátót, Hungary.
- 121 Department of Ecology and Plant Geography, Faculty of Biology, Moscow Lomonosov State University, 119234, Moscow, Russia.
- 122 Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Kyoto, 606-8502, Japan.
- 123 Wageningen Environmental Research, PO Box 47, NL-6700 AA Wageningen, Wageningen, Netherlands.
- 124 Centro de Investigaciones sobre Desertificación, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CIDE-CSIC), Valencia, 46113, Spain.
- 125 Centro de Investigacion en Biodiversidad y Cambio Global (CIBC-UAM), Departamento de Ecología, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, E-28049, Madrid, Spain.
- 126 Department of Ecology, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS, 91501-970, Brazil.
- 127 Snow and Mountain Research Center of Andorra, Andorran Research + Innovation, Avda. Rocafort 21-23 Sant Julià de Lòria, Principality of Andorra, Julià de Lòria, Andorra.
- 128 Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Friedrich-Schiller University Jena, Philosophenweg 16, D-07743, Jena, Germany.
- 129 Instituto de Ciencias de la Naturaleza, Territorio y Energías Renovables, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima, Peru.
- 130 Department of Biology, Santa Clara University, 500 El Camino Real, Santa Clara, CA, 95053, USA.
- 131 Department of Biology, Algoma University, Sault Ste, Marie, Ontario, P6A 6J8, Canada.
- 132 Landscape Dynamics, Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Birmensdorf, 8903, Switzerland.
- 133 Department of Global Liberal Studies, Faculty of Global Liberal Studies, Nanzan University, Aichi, 466-8673, Japan.
- 134 Center for Southeast Asian Studies (CSEAS), Kyoto University, 46 Shimoadachi-cho, Yoshida, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, 606-8501, Japan.
- 135 Embrapa Clima Temperado, Pelotas, RS, Brazil.
- 136 Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Hasselt, Belgium.
- 137 Institute of Environmental Sciences, Leiden University, Einsteinweg 2, 2333 CC, Leiden, Netherlands.
- 138 Department of Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology, University of California Riverside, Riverside, California, 92521, USA.
- 139 School of Biological Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, AB24 3FX, UK.
- 140 Department of Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, 46556, USA.
- 141 Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Western Bank, Sheffield, S10 2TN, UK.
- 142 Département de biologie des organismes et écologie, Université libre de Bruxelles, Roosevelt, Belgique.
- 143 Departamento de Ciencias Naturales y Tecnología, Universidad de Aysén, Coyhaique, Chile.
- 144 Center for Climate and Resilience Research CR2, Santiago, Chile.
- 145 National Museum of Natural Sciences, MNCN, CSIC, Serrano 115, 28006, Madrid, Spain.
- 146 University Rey Juan Carlos, Mostoles, Área de Biodiversidad y Conservación C/Tulipán sn, 28033, Móstoles, Madrid, Spain.
- 147 LEPSE, Univ Montpellier, INRAE, Institut Agro, Montpellier, France.
- 148 Forest & Nature Lab, Department of Environment, Ghent University, Geraardsbergsesteenweg 267, B-9090, Melle-Gontrode, Belgium.
- 149 National Science Foundation, Division of Environmental Biology, Alexandria, VA, 22314, USA.
- 150 Department of Biology, University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire, Eau Claire, WI, 54702, USA.
- 151 Department of Biology, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA.
- 152 Functional Ecology Group, Inst. of Biology and Environmental Sciences, University of Oldenburg, 26111, Oldenburg, Germany.
- PMID: 36477373
- PMCID: PMC9729214
- DOI: 10.1038/s41597-022-01774-9
Abstract
Here we provide the 'Global Spectrum of Plant Form and Function Dataset', containing species mean values for six vascular plant traits. Together, these traits -plant height, stem specific density, leaf area, leaf mass per area, leaf nitrogen content per dry mass, and diaspore (seed or spore) mass - define the primary axes of variation in plant form and function. The dataset is based on ca. 1 million trait records received via the TRY database (representing ca. 2,500 original publications) and additional unpublished data. It provides 92,159 species mean values for the six traits, covering 46,047 species. The data are complemented by higher-level taxonomic classification and six categorical traits (woodiness, growth form, succulence, adaptation to terrestrial or aquatic habitats, nutrition type and leaf type). Data quality management is based on a probabilistic approach combined with comprehensive validation against expert knowledge and external information. Intense data acquisition and thorough quality control produced the largest and, to our knowledge, most accurate compilation of empirically observed vascular plant species mean traits to date.
© 2022. The Author(s).
Conflict of interest statement
The authors declare no competing interests.
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