| No. | Principal Investigators | Title | Status |
| 1 | Rosie Fisher, Ian Woodward, Colin Prentice, Ian Wright | Defining plant functional types for the ED-JULES DGVM: understanding the costs and benefits of competing plant strategies | proposal approved |
| 2 | Jens Kattge, TRY database contributors | A joint database of plant functional traits | data released |
| 3 | Jens Kattge, Ian Wright, Peter Reich, Amy Zanne, Gerhard Boenisch, Christian Wirth | Look-up tables for categorical traits: plant growth form, leaf phenological type, leaf compoundness, leaf type, photosynthetic pathway, woodiness and N-fixation capacity | data released |
| 4 | Soenke Zaehle, Andrew D. Friend, Jens Kattge | Quantifying the effect of leaf trait dependent photosynthetic nitrogen use efficiency on the modelling of global photosynthesis | data released |
| 5 | Bjoern Reu, Axel Kleidon, Jens Kattge, Christian Wirth | Using geographic patterns in plant traits for model validation | data released |
| 6 | Peter van Bodegom, Flip Witte, Victor Brovkin | Testing TRICYCLE: a new dynamic global vegetation model based on plant traits | proposal approved |
| 7 | Kerry Woods | Temporal dynamics of community assembly in old-growth hemlock-hardwood forests | proposal approved |
| 8 | Jeannine Cavender-Bares, Stefan Klotz, Sonja Knapp | A comparison of plant phylogenetic and functional diversity across urban to rural gradients in the US and Europe | data released |
| 9 | Jakob Gerstenlauer, Kerstin Wiegand | Modelling population dynamics of wind dispersed grassland plants | data released |
| 10 | Anne-Isabelle Graux, Jean-François Soussana | Simulation of grassland dynamics under global change. Parametrisation of a biogeochemical model with community-scale plant functional traits | data released |
| 12 | Stefanie von Felten, Bernhard Schmid, Jasmin Joshi, Christian Wirth | The role of functional richness for the assembly, functioning, and stability of plant communities | data released |
| 13 | Daniel Goll and Victor Brovkin | P-Cycle: adding a phosphorus cycle to the terrestrial vegetation model JSBACH | data released |
| 14 | Antoine Tardif and Bill Shipley | SLA, LDMC and leaf nitrogen content values of particular species | data released |
| 15 | Ulrike Stahl and Christian Wirth | Pattern of functional diversity of North American forests based on plant functional traits and abundance data | data released |
| 16 | Christian Wirth and Hans Cornelissen | Linking decomposability of leaf litter and dead wood to their traits: a global analysis of woody species | data released |
| 18 | Ben Poulter, Heike Lischke and Nick Zimmermann | Parameterizing shrub plant functional types in the vegetation models LPJ, LPJ-GUESS and TreeMig along global environmental gradients for montane species | data released |
| 19 | David LeBauer and Michael Dietze | Understanding uncertainty in a dynamic global vegetation model (ED2) | proposal approved |
| 22 | Koen Kramer, Hervé Jactel, Fernando Valladares, Michael Scherer-Lorenzen, Harald Bugmann | BACCARA - Biodiversity And Climate Change, A Risk Analysis | data released |