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TRY will be presented at the Open Science Meeting of the Global Land Project (GLP) October, 17-19, Phoenix, Arizona
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Call for PhD fellowships at the IMPRS for Global Biogeochemical Cycles in Jena, Germany
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Welcome to the TRY initiative

A global network of vegetation scientists
to compile and share plant trait data

TRY is jointly headed by IGBP, QUEST, DIVERSITAS and
the Organismic Biogeochemistry Group at MPI-BGC

Main objectives:

  • Construction of a global database of plant functional traits
  • Make the data available for the ecological community
  • Support the design of a new generation of global vegetation models

Current state of the TRY database:

  • Network of >100 data contributors
  • >2.400.000 trait records compiled
  • 17 projects using data from the TRY database

More about the TRY initiative, how to contribute or request data:
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