Quantifying and scaling global plant trait diversity

Main objectives

• Provide a global archive of plant traits
• Promote trait-based approaches in ecology and biodiversity science
• Support the design of a new generation of global vegetation models

Current state of database and network

• 3 million trait records for about 69000 plant species
• 372 participants from 179 scientific institutes worldwide
• 219 scientific projects requesting plant trait data from TRY

News

Upcoming Open TRY Workshop (2013-05-06)
5th Open Workshop of the TRY initiative: 3-5 September 2013, Leipzig, Germany. (link)

New guidelines for trait measurements (2013-04-28)
N. Pérez-Harguindeguy et al. New handbook for standardised measurement of plant functional traits worldwide. Australian Journal of Botany (link)

Paper published (2013-04-05)
Loranger et al. Predicting invertebrate herbivory from plant traits: polycultures show strong non-additive effects. Ecology. (link)

Paper published (2013-04-05)
Kazakou et al. Are trait-based species’ rankings consistent across datasets and spatial scales? Journal of Vegetation Science. (link)

Call for trait data (2013-03-22)
We are working on an improved version of the TRY database. In this context we are also looking for new datasets of plant traits. Please contact Jens Kattge (jkattge@bgc-jena.mpg.de). Details for data contribution: (link)

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