The global spectrum of plant form and function: enhanced species-level trait dataset

Sandra Díaz; Jens Kattge; Johannes H.C. Cornelissen; Ian J. Wright; Sandra Lavorel; Stéphane Dray; Björn Reu; Michael Kleyer; Christian Wirth; I. Colin Prentice; Eric Garnier; Gerhard Bönisch; Mark Westoby; Hendrik Poorter; Peter B. Reich; Angela T. Moles; John Dickie; Amy E. Zanne; Jérôme Chave; S. Joseph Wright; Serge N. Sheremetiev; Hervé Jactel; Christopher Baraloto; Bruno E.L. Cerabolini; Simon Pierce; Bill Shipley; Fernando Casanoves; Julia S. Joswig; Angela Günther; Valeria Falczuk; Nadja Rüger; Miguel D. Mahecha; Lucas D. Gorné; Bernard Amiaud; Owen K. Atkin; Michael Bahn; Dennis Baldocchi; Michael Beckmann; Benjamin Blonder; William Bond; Ben Bond-Lamberty; Kerry Brown; Sabina Burrascano; Chaeho Byun; Giandiego Campetella; Jeannine Cavender-Bares; F. Stuart Chapin; Brendan Choat; David Anthony Coomes; William K. Cornwell; Joseph Craine; Dylan Craven; Matteo Dainese; Alessandro Carioca de Araujo; Franciska T. de Vries; Tomas Ferreira Domingues; Brian J. Enquist; Jaime Fagúndez; Jingyun Fang; Fernando Fernández-Méndez; Maria T. Fernandez-Piedade; Henry Ford; Estelle Forey; Gregoire T. Freschet; Sophie Gachet; Rachael Gallagher; Walton Green; Greg R. Guerin; Alvaro G. Gutiérrez; Sandy P. Harrison; Wesley Neil Hattingh; Tianhua He; Thomas Hickler; Steven I. Higgins; Pedro Higuchi; Jugo Ilic; Robert B. Jackson; Adel Jalili; Steven Jansen; Fumito Koike; Christian König; Nathan Kraft; Koen Kramer; Holger Kreft; Ingolf Kühn; Hiroko Kurokawa; Eric G. Lamb; Daniel C. Laughlin; Michelle Leishman; Simon Lewis; Frédérique Louault; Ana C.M. Malhado; Peter Manning; Patrick Meir; Maurizio Mencuccini; Julie Messier; Regis Miller; Vanessa Minden; Jane Molofsky; Rebecca Montgomery; Gabriel Montserrat-Martí; Marco Moretti; Sandra Müller; Ülo Niinemets; Romà Ogaya; Kinga Öllerer; Vladimir Onipchenko; Yusuke Onoda; Wim A. Ozinga; Juli G. Pausas; Begoña Peco; Josep Penuelas; Valério D. Pillar; Clara Pladevall; Christine Römermann; Lawren Sack; Norma Salinas; Brody Sandel; Jordi Sardans; Brandon Schamp; Michael Scherer-Lorenzen; Ernst Detlef Schulze; Fritz Schweingruber; Satomi Shiodera; Ênio Sosinski; Nadejda Soudzilovskaia; Marko J. Spasojevic; Emily Swaine; Nathan Swenson; Susanne Tautenhahn; Ken Thompson; Alexia Totte; Rocío Urrutia-Jalabert; Fernando Valladares; Peter van Bodegom; François Vasseur; Kris Verheyen; Denis Vile; Cyrille Violle; Betsy von Holle; Patrick Weigelt; Evan Weiher; Michael C. Wiemann; Mathew Williams; Justin Wright; Gerhard Zotz

doi:10.1038/s41597-022-01774-9

The global spectrum of plant form and function: enhanced species-level trait dataset

Sandra Díaz, Jens Kattge, Johannes H.C. Cornelissen, Ian J. Wright, Sandra Lavorel, Stéphane Dray, Björn Reu, Michael Kleyer, Christian Wirth, I. Colin Prentice, Eric Garnier, Gerhard Bönisch, Mark Westoby, Hendrik Poorter, Peter B. Reich, Angela T. Moles, John Dickie, Amy E. Zanne, Jérôme Chave, S. Joseph WrightSerge N. Sheremetiev, Hervé Jactel, Christopher Baraloto, Bruno E.L. Cerabolini, Simon Pierce, Bill Shipley, Fernando Casanoves, Julia S. Joswig, Angela Günther, Valeria Falczuk, Nadja Rüger, Miguel D. Mahecha, Lucas D. Gorné, Bernard Amiaud, Owen K. Atkin, Michael Bahn, Dennis Baldocchi, Michael Beckmann, Benjamin Blonder, William Bond, Ben Bond-Lamberty, Kerry Brown, Sabina Burrascano, Chaeho Byun, Giandiego Campetella, Jeannine Cavender-Bares, F. Stuart Chapin, Brendan Choat, David Anthony Coomes, William K. Cornwell, Joseph Craine, Dylan Craven, Matteo Dainese, Alessandro Carioca de Araujo, Franciska T. de Vries, Tomas Ferreira Domingues, Brian J. Enquist, Jaime Fagúndez, Jingyun Fang, Fernando Fernández-Méndez, Maria T. Fernandez-Piedade, Henry Ford, Estelle Forey, Gregoire T. Freschet, Sophie Gachet, Rachael Gallagher, Walton Green, Greg R. Guerin, Alvaro G. Gutiérrez, Sandy P. Harrison, Wesley Neil Hattingh, Tianhua He, Thomas Hickler, Steven I. Higgins, Pedro Higuchi, Jugo Ilic, Robert B. Jackson, Adel Jalili, Steven Jansen, Fumito Koike, Christian König, Nathan Kraft, Koen Kramer, Holger Kreft, Ingolf Kühn, Hiroko Kurokawa, Eric G. Lamb, Daniel C. Laughlin, Michelle Leishman, Simon Lewis, Frédérique Louault, Ana C.M. Malhado, Peter Manning, Patrick Meir, Maurizio Mencuccini, Julie Messier, Regis Miller, Vanessa Minden, Jane Molofsky, Rebecca Montgomery, Gabriel Montserrat-Martí, Marco Moretti, Sandra Müller, Ülo Niinemets, Romà Ogaya, Kinga Öllerer, Vladimir Onipchenko, Yusuke Onoda, Wim A. Ozinga, Juli G. Pausas, Begoña Peco, Josep Penuelas, Valério D. Pillar, Clara Pladevall, Christine Römermann, Lawren Sack, Norma Salinas, Brody Sandel, Jordi Sardans, Brandon Schamp, Michael Scherer-Lorenzen, Ernst Detlef Schulze, Fritz Schweingruber, Satomi Shiodera, Ênio Sosinski, Nadejda Soudzilovskaia, Marko J. Spasojevic, Emily Swaine, Nathan Swenson, Susanne Tautenhahn, Ken Thompson, Alexia Totte, Rocío Urrutia-Jalabert, Fernando Valladares, Peter van Bodegom, François Vasseur, Kris Verheyen, Denis Vile, Cyrille Violle, Betsy von Holle, Patrick Weigelt, Evan Weiher, Michael C. Wiemann, Mathew Williams, Justin Wright, Gerhard Zotz

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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.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	755
Journal	Scientific Data
Volume	9
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-022-01774-9
State	Published - Dec 2022

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The study has been supported by the TRY initiative on plant traits ( https://www.try-db.org ). TRY is an initiative of the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, bioDISCOVERY/Future Earth (ICSU), the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig and Núcleo DiverSus (CONICET- Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina). The Global Spectrum of Plant Form and Function study has been supported by the European BACI project (Towards a Biosphere Atmosphere change Index, EU grant ID 640176), and grants to SD by FONCyT, CONICET, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research, and The Newton Fund (NERC UK – CONICET ARG). VO thanks RSF (#19-14-00038p).

Funding Information:
The study has been supported by the TRY initiative on plant traits (https://www.try-db.org). TRY is an initiative of the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, bioDISCOVERY/Future Earth (ICSU), the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig and Núcleo DiverSus (CONICET- Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina). The Global Spectrum of Plant Form and Function study has been supported by the European BACI project (Towards a Biosphere Atmosphere change Index, EU grant ID 640176), and grants to SD by FONCyT, CONICET, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research, and The Newton Fund (NERC UK – CONICET ARG). VO thanks RSF (#19-14-00038p).

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Díaz, S., Kattge, J., Cornelissen, J. H. C., Wright, I. J., Lavorel, S., Dray, S., Reu, B., Kleyer, M., Wirth, C., Prentice, I. C., Garnier, E., Bönisch, G., Westoby, M., Poorter, H., Reich, P. B., Moles, A. T., Dickie, J., Zanne, A. E., Chave, J., ... Zotz, G. (2022). The global spectrum of plant form and function: enhanced species-level trait dataset. Scientific Data, 9(1), Article 755. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-022-01774-9

Díaz, S, Kattge, J, Cornelissen, JHC, Wright, IJ, Lavorel, S, Dray, S, Reu, B, Kleyer, M, Wirth, C, Prentice, IC, Garnier, E, Bönisch, G, Westoby, M, Poorter, H, Reich, PB, Moles, AT, Dickie, J, Zanne, AE, Chave, J, Wright, SJ, Sheremetiev, SN, Jactel, H, Baraloto, C, Cerabolini, BEL, Pierce, S, Shipley, B, Casanoves, F, Joswig, JS, Günther, A, Falczuk, V, Rüger, N, Mahecha, MD, Gorné, LD, Amiaud, B, Atkin, OK, Bahn, M, Baldocchi, D, Beckmann, M, Blonder, B, Bond, W, Bond-Lamberty, B, Brown, K, Burrascano, S, Byun, C, Campetella, G, Cavender-Bares, J, Chapin, FS, Choat, B, Coomes, DA, Cornwell, WK, Craine, J, Craven, D, Dainese, M, de Araujo, AC, de Vries, FT, Domingues, TF, Enquist, BJ, Fagúndez, J, Fang, J, Fernández-Méndez, F, Fernandez-Piedade, MT, Ford, H, Forey, E, Freschet, GT, Gachet, S, Gallagher, R, Green, W, Guerin, GR, Gutiérrez, AG, Harrison, SP, Hattingh, WN, He, T, Hickler, T, Higgins, SI, Higuchi, P, Ilic, J, Jackson, RB, Jalili, A, Jansen, S, Koike, F, König, C, Kraft, N, Kramer, K, Kreft, H, Kühn, I, Kurokawa, H, Lamb, EG, Laughlin, DC, Leishman, M, Lewis, S, Louault, F, Malhado, ACM, Manning, P, Meir, P, Mencuccini, M, Messier, J, Miller, R, Minden, V, Molofsky, J, Montgomery, R, Montserrat-Martí, G, Moretti, M, Müller, S, Niinemets, Ü, Ogaya, R, Öllerer, K, Onipchenko, V, Onoda, Y, Ozinga, WA, Pausas, JG, Peco, B, Penuelas, J, Pillar, VD, Pladevall, C, Römermann, C, Sack, L, Salinas, N, Sandel, B, Sardans, J, Schamp, B, Scherer-Lorenzen, M, Schulze, ED, Schweingruber, F, Shiodera, S, Sosinski, Ê, Soudzilovskaia, N, Spasojevic, MJ, Swaine, E, Swenson, N, Tautenhahn, S, Thompson, K, Totte, A, Urrutia-Jalabert, R, Valladares, F, van Bodegom, P, Vasseur, F, Verheyen, K, Vile, D, Violle, C, von Holle, B, Weigelt, P, Weiher, E, Wiemann, MC, Williams, M, Wright, J & Zotz, G 2022, 'The global spectrum of plant form and function: enhanced species-level trait dataset', Scientific Data, vol. 9, no. 1, 755. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-022-01774-9

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AU - Pierce, Simon

AU - Shipley, Bill

AU - Casanoves, Fernando

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AU - Gorné, Lucas D.

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