The global spectrum of plant form and function: enhanced species-level trait dataset.
Creators: name: Díaz, Sandra
name: Kattge, Jens
name: Cornelissen, Johannes HC
name: Wright, Ian J
name: Lavorel, Sandra
name: Dray, Stéphane
name: Reu, Björn
name: Kleyer, Michael
name: Wirth, Christian
name: Prentice, I Colin
name: Garnier, Eric
name: Bönisch, Gerhard
name: Westoby, Mark
name: Poorter, Hendrik
name: Reich, Peter B
name: Moles, Angela T
name: Dickie, John
name: Zanne, Amy E
name: Chave, Jérôme
name: Wright, S Joseph
name: Sheremetiev, Serge N
name: Jactel, Hervé
name: Baraloto, Christopher
name: Cerabolini, Bruno EL
name: Pierce, Simon
name: Shipley, Bill
name: Casanoves, Fernando
name: Joswig, Julia S
name: Günther, Angela
name: Falczuk, Valeria
name: Rüger, Nadja
name: Mahecha, Miguel D
name: Gorné, Lucas D
name: Amiaud, Bernard
name: Atkin, Owen K
name: Bahn, Michael
name: Baldocchi, Dennis
name: Beckmann, Michael
name: Blonder, Benjamin
name: Bond, William
name: Bond-Lamberty, Ben
name: Brown, Kerry
name: Burrascano, Sabina
name: Byun, Chaeho
name: Campetella, Giandiego
name: Cavender-Bares, Jeannine
name: Chapin, F Stuart
name: Choat, Brendan
name: Coomes, David Anthony
name: Cornwell, William K
name: Craine, Joseph
name: Craven, Dylan
name: Dainese, Matteo
name: De Araujo, Alessandro Carioca
name: De Vries, Franciska T
name: Domingues, Tomas Ferreira
name: Enquist, Brian J
name: Fagúndez, Jaime
name: Fang, Jingyun
name: Fernández-Méndez, Fernando
name: Fernandez-Piedade, Maria T
name: Ford, Henry
name: Forey, Estelle
name: Freschet, Gregoire T
name: Gachet, Sophie
name: Gallagher, Rachael
name: Green, Walton
name: Guerin, Greg R
name: Gutiérrez, Alvaro G
name: Harrison, Sandy P
name: Hattingh, Wesley Neil
name: He, Tianhua
name: Hickler, Thomas
name: Higgins, Steven I
name: Higuchi, Pedro
name: Ilic, Jugo
name: Jackson, Robert B
name: Jalili, Adel
name: Jansen, Steven
name: Koike, Fumito
name: König, Christian
name: Kraft, Nathan
name: Kramer, Koen
name: Kreft, Holger
name: Kühn, Ingolf
name: Kurokawa, Hiroko
name: Lamb, Eric G
name: Laughlin, Daniel C
name: Leishman, Michelle
name: Lewis, Simon
name: Louault, Frédérique
name: Malhado, Ana CM
name: Manning, Peter
name: Meir, Patrick
name: Mencuccini, Maurizio
name: Messier, Julie
name: Miller, Regis
name: Minden, Vanessa
name: Molofsky, Jane
name: Montgomery, Rebecca
name: Montserrat-Martí, Gabriel
name: Moretti, Marco
name: Müller, Sandra
name: Niinemets, Ülo
name: Ogaya, Romà
name: Öllerer, Kinga
name: Onipchenko, Vladimir
name: Onoda, Yusuke
name: Ozinga, Wim A
name: Pausas, Juli G
name: Peco, Begoña
name: Penuelas, Josep
name: Pillar, Valério D
name: Pladevall, Clara
name: Römermann, Christine
name: Sack, Lawren
name: Salinas, Norma
name: Sandel, Brody
name: Sardans, Jordi
name: Schamp, Brandon
name: Scherer-Lorenzen, Michael
name: Schulze, Ernst-Detlef
name: Schweingruber, Fritz
name: Shiodera, Satomi
name: Sosinski, Ênio
name: Soudzilovskaia, Nadejda
name: Spasojevic, Marko J
name: Swaine, Emily
name: Swenson, Nathan
name: Tautenhahn, Susanne
name: Thompson, Ken
name: Totte, Alexia
name: Urrutia-Jalabert, Rocío
name: Valladares, Fernando
name: Van Bodegom, Peter
name: Vasseur, François
name: Verheyen, Kris
name: Vile, Denis
name: Violle, Cyrille
name: Von Holle, Betsy
name: Weigelt, Patrick
name: Weiher, Evan
name: Wiemann, Michael C
name: Williams, Mathew
name: Wright, Justin
name: Zotz, Gerhard
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2022
Subjects: Data Descriptor
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data-descriptor

description: 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.