TRY plant trait database – enhanced coverage and open access
Creators: name: Kattge, Jens
name: Bönisch, Gerhard
name: Díaz, Sandra
name: Lavorel, Sandra
name: Prentice, Iain Colin
name: Leadley, Paul
name: Tautenhahn, Susanne
name: Werner, Gijsbert D. A.
name: Aakala, Tuomas
name: Abedi, Mehdi
name: Acosta, Alicia T. R.
name: Adamidis, George C.
name: Adamson, Kairi
name: Aiba, Masahiro
name: Albert, Cécile H.
name: Alcántara, Julio M.
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name: Ammer, Christian
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name: Anderson, Carolyn
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name: Antos, Joseph
name: Apgaua, Deborah Mattos Guimarães
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name: Asmara, Degi Harja
name: Asner, Gregory P.
name: Aspinwall, Michael
name: Atkin, Owen
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name: Baastrup‐Spohr, Lars
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name: Bahn, Michael
name: Baker, Timothy
name: Baker, William J.
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name: Baltzer, Jennifer
name: Banerjee, Arindam
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name: Berdugo‐Lattke, Mary Lee
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name: Bergamin, Rodrigo
name: Bergmann, Joana
name: Bergmann Carlucci, Marcos
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name: Yanai, Ruth
name: Yankov, Nikolay
name: Yguel, Benjamin
name: Zanini, Kátia Janaina
name: Zanne, Amy E.
name: Zelený, David
name: Zhao, Yun‐Peng
name: Zheng, Jingming
name: Zheng, Ji
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Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: data coverage
subject: data representativeness
subject: functional diversity
subject: plant traits
subject: TRY plant trait database
subject: DDC 004 / Data processing &amp; computer science
subject: DDC 580 / Botanical sciences
subject: Data integration (Computer science)
subject: Datenintegration

description: Plant traits—the morphological, anatomical, physiological, biochemical and phenological characteristics of plants—determine how plants respond to environmental factors, affect other trophic levels, and influence ecosystem properties and their benefits and detriments to people. Plant trait data thus represent the basis for a vast area of research spanning from evolutionary biology, community and functional ecology, to biodiversity conservation, ecosystem and landscape management, restoration, biogeography and earth system modelling. Since its foundation in 2007, the TRY database of plant traits has grown continuously. It now provides unprecedented data coverage under an open access data policy and is the main plant trait database used by the research community worldwide. Increasingly, the TRY database also supports new frontiers of trait-based plant research, including the identification of data gaps and the subsequent mobilization or measurement of new data. To support this development, in this article we evaluate the extent of the trait data compiled in TRY and analyse emerging patterns of data coverage and representativeness. Best species coverage is achieved for categorical traits—almost complete coverage for ‘plant growth form’. However, most traits relevant for ecology and vegetation modelling are characterized by continuous intraspecific variation and trait–environmental relationships. These traits have to be measured on individual plants in their respective environment. Despite unprecedented data coverage, we observe a humbling lack of completeness and representativeness of these continuous traits in many aspects. We, therefore, conclude that reducing data gaps and biases in the TRY database remains a key challenge and requires a coordinated approach to data mobilization and trait measurements. This can only be achieved in collaboration with other initiatives.