Among the datasets below are small individual contributions (often unpublished data) as well as several large datasets covering several thousands of entries (like LEDA, GLOPNET, BiolFlor).
| DatasetID | Dataset | Main Custodian | Institution | Availability | Embargo Start Date | Details |
| 334 | A Global Data Set of Leaf Photosynthetic Rates, Leaf N and P, and Specific Leaf Area | Anthony Walker | Oak Ridge National Laboratory | public | | |
| 430 | A Global Dataset of Leaf Delta13C Data
(link) | Will Cornwell | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam | public | | |
| 1 | Abisko & Sheffield Database | Johannes Cornelissen | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam | public | | |
| 356 | Aboveground morphological traits of grassland species | Marina Semchenko | University of Manchester | public | | |
| 408 | Alaska Peatland Experiment PFT values | Mara McPartland | University of Minnesota | public | | |
| 253 | Allometric Coefficients of Aboveground Tree Biomass | Carlos Sierra | | public | | |
| 200 | Altitudinal Vicariants Spain | Ruben Milla | Universidad Rey Juan Carlos | public | | |
| 151 | Aluminium Tolerance Dataset | Peter Poschlod | University of Regensburg | public | | |
| 361 | Angiosperm leaf venation networks | Benjamin Blonder | University of Arizona | public | | |
| 259 | Angiosperm Shoot Ionomes Dataset | Philip White | The James Hutton Institute, Invergowrie Dundee | public | | |
| 458 | Antibiotics-effects on plant elements | Vanessa Minden | | public | | |
| 457 | Antibiotics-effects on plant traits | Vanessa Minden | | public | | |
| 305 | Araucaria Forest Database | Pedro Higuchi | Santa Catarina State University | public | | |
| 401 | Arctic Leaf Photosynthetic Parameters Vcmax and Jmax Estimated from CO2 Response Curves
(link) | Alistair Rogers | Brookhaven National Laboratory | public | | |
| 402 | Arctic Photosynthetic parameter Vcmax Estimated Using the 1-Point Method
(link) | Alistair Rogers | Brookhaven National Laboratory | public | | |
| 89 | ArtDeco Database | Will Cornwell | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam | public | | |
| 3 | Australian Fire Ecology Database | Ross Bradstock | University of Wollongong | public | | |
| 431 | BAAD: a biomass and allometry database for woody plants
(link) | Daniel Falster | University of New South Wales | public | | |
| 191 | Baccara - Plant Traits of European Forests | Koen Kramer | Alterra | public | | |
| 175 | BASECO: a floristic and ecological database of Mediterranean French flora | Sophie Gachet | Aix Marseille University / IMBE | public | | |
| 441 | BBB - A global Belowground Bud Bank database
(link) | Juli Pausas | Centro de Investigaciones sobre Desertificación | public | | |
| 4 | BiolFlor Database
(link) | Ingolf Kühn | Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ | public | | |
| 376 | Biomass allocation in beech and spruce seedlings | Christian Ammer | University of Göttingen | public | | |
| 287 | Biomass allocation of Carex obnupta and Carex stipata | Nate Hough-Snee | Utah State University | public | | |
| 79 | BIOME-BGC Parameterization Database
(link) | Michael White | Utah State University | public | | |
| 71 | BIOPOP: Functional Traits for Nature Conservation
(link) | Peter Poschlod | University of Regensburg | restricted | 2019-03-26 | |
| 210 | BIOTREE Trait Data | Michael Scherer-Lorenzen | University of Freiburg | cur. na | | | |
| 211 | BIOTREE Trait Shade Experiment | Michael Scherer-Lorenzen | University of Freiburg | public | | |
| 27 | BROT Plant Trait Database
(link) | Juli Pausas | Centro de Investigaciones sobre Desertificación | public | | |
| 450 | BryForTrait – a life-history trait database of forest bryophytes | Markus Bernhardt-Römermann | Friedrich Schiller University Jena | public | | |
| 289 | Cabo de Gata-Níjar Natural Park | Angel de Frutos | | public | | |
| 448 | Cadotte 2017 Ecology Letters: herbaceous traits measured in the filed | Marc Cadotte | University of Toronto-Scarborough | public | | |
| 249 | California Coastal Grassland Database | Brody Sandel | Santa Clara University | public | | |
| 217 | Canopy Traits for Temperate Tree Species Under High N-Deposition | Kris Verheyen | Ghent University | public | | |
| 91 | Catalonian Mediterranean Forest Trait Database | Josep Peńuelas | Universitat Autňnoma de Barcelona | public | | |
| 131 | Catalonian Mediterranean Shrubland Trait Database | Josep Peńuelas | Universitat Autňnoma de Barcelona | public | | |
| 110 | Categorical Plant Traits Database | Hendrik Poorter | Forschungszentrum Jülich | public | | |
| 117 | Categorical Plant Traits Database | Peter van Bodegom | Leiden University | public | | |
| 57 | Categorical Plant Traits Database | Ian Wright | Macquarie University | public | | |
| 104 | Categorical Plant Traits Database | Olivier Flores | Université de la Réunion / CIRAD | public | | |
| 84 | Caucasus Plant Traits Database | Nadejda Soudzilovskaia | Leiden University | public | | |
| 185 | cDNA Content of Carex | Andrew Hipp | The Morton Arboretum | public | | |
| 7 | Cedar Creek Plant Physiology Database | Daniel Bunker | New Jersey Institute of Technology | public | | |
| 354 | Cedar Creek prairie plants (leaf, seed, dispersule, height, plant, root) | Jane Catford | Kings College London | restricted | 2019-03-26 | |
| 70 | Cedar Creek Savanna SLA, C, N Database | Peter Reich | University of Minnesota | public | | |
| 53 | Chinese Leaf Traits Database | Jingyun Fang | University of Peking | public | | |
| 420 | Chinese savanna trees - aboveground trait data | Coline Boonman | Radboud University | public | | |
| 236 | Chinese Traits | Sandy Harrison | University of Reading | public | | |
| 345 | CIRAD Selmet Tree LNC Sahel | Simon Taugourdeau | CIRAD_SELMET | public | | |
| 106 | Climbing Plants Trait Database | Rachael Gallagher | Macquarie University | public | | |
| 176 | Climbing plants trait dataset | Rachael Gallagher | Macquarie University | public | | |
| 243 | CLO-PLA : a Database of Clonal Growth in Plants | Jitka Klimesova | | public | | |
| 427 | Coffea arabica var. Caturra - leaf traits | Serra Willow Buchanan | University of Toronto | public | | |
| 184 | Cold Tolerance, Seed Size and Height of North American Forest Tree Species | Bradford Hawkins | University of California, Irvine | public | | |
| 9 | CORDOBASE | Sandra Díaz | Universidad Nacional de Cordoba | cur. na | | | |
| 74 | Costa Rica Rainforest Trees Database | Bryan Finegan | Tropical Agricultural Centre for Research and Higher Education (CATIE) | public | | |
| 263 | Costa Rican Tropical Dry Forest Trees | Jennifer Powers | | public | | |
| 438 | Crop Trait Database | Adam Martin | University of Toronto | public | | |
| 274 | Crown Architecture Database | Felipe Lenti | Universidade de Brasília | public | | |
| 288 | CTFS Luquillo Forest Dynamics Plot | Nathan Swenson | University of Maryland | public | | |
| 257 | D3: The Dispersal and Diaspore Database
(link) | Oliver Tackenberg | | cur. na | | | |
| 391 | Dataset for Rosell 2016 New Phytologist | Julieta Rosell | Universidad Nacional Autonoma de México | restricted | 2019-03-26 | |
| 392 | Dataset for Rosell et al. 2017 New Phytologist | Julieta Rosell | Universidad Nacional Autonoma de México | restricted | 2019-03-26 | |
| 213 | Day and Night Gas Exchange of Deciduous Tree Seedlings in Response to Experimental Warming and Preci | Nick Smith | Texas Tech University | public | | |
| 225 | Diameter at Breast Height and Life Form of Amazonian Flora | Erika Berenguer | | restricted | 2019-03-26 | |
| 48 | Dispersal Traits Database | Steve Higgins | Goethe-University Frankfurt | public | | |
| 327 | Eastern US Old Field Plant Traits Database | Andrew Siefert | Syracuse University | public | | |
| 12 | ECOCRAFT | Belinda Medlyn | Western Sydney University | public | | |
| 174 | Ecological Flora of the British Isles
(link) | Henry Ford | University of York | public | | |
| 336 | Ecophsiological traits of Pinus halepensis Miller | Tamir Klein | Weizmann Institute of Science | public | | |
| 75 | ECOQUA South American Plant Traits Database | Valerio Pillar | Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul | public | | |
| 245 | Ecotron Species Composition and Global Change Experiment | Peter Manning | | public | | |
| 341 | eHALOPH - Halophytes Database (2015)
(link) | Tim Flowers | | public | | |
| 414 | eHALOPH - Halophytes Database (2018) | Tim Flowers | | public | | |
| 316 | Element contents of plant organs of halohytic species, NW-Germany | Vanessa Minden | | public | | |
| 242 | Ellenberg Indicator Values | Gerhard Boenisch | Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry | public | | |
| 76 | European Mountain Meadows Plant Traits Database | Michael Bahn | University of Innsbruck | public | | |
| 453 | European North Russia | Alexander Novakovskiy | Institute of Biology of Komi SC UB RAS | public | | |
| 411 | Fall Velocity from Baltic Island species | Markus Bernhardt-Römermann | Friedrich Schiller University Jena | public | | |
| 77 | FAPESP Brazil Rainforest Database | Enio Sosinski | Embrapa Temperate Agriculture | public | | |
| 121 | Fern Spore Mass Database | Johannes Cornelissen | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam | public | | |
| 397 | Fine root traits of 141 Central European grassland species
(link) | Joana Bergmann | Freie Universität Berlin | public | | |
| 238 | Fire Related Traits in Proteaceae and Pinaceae | Tianhua He | | public | | |
| 228 | Flora d’Italia Functional Traits Hoard (FIFTH) | Bruno E. L. Cerabolini | University of Insubria | restricted | 2019-03-26 | |
| 54 | Floridian Leaf Traits Database | Jeannine Cavender-Bares | University of Minnesota | public | | |
| 63 | Fonseca/Wright New South Wales Database | Ian Wright | Macquarie University | public | | |
| 360 | Fossil Leaf Traits | Benjamin Blonder | University of Arizona | public | | |
| 339 | FRED - Fine Root Ecology Database | Colleen Iversen | | public | | |
| 310 | French Alps Trait Data | Sandra Lavorel | LECA-CNRS | public | | |
| 80 | French Massif Central Grassland Trait Database | Frédérique Louault | Université Clermont Auvergne, INRAE, VetAgro Sup, UMR Ecosystčme Prairial | public | | |
| 150 | French Weeds Trait Database | Bernard Amiaud | | public | | |
| 59 | Frost Hardiness Database | Anja Rammig | Technical University of Munich | public | | |
| 435 | Functional Resilience of Temperate Forests Dataset | Mario Liebergesell | University of Leipzig | public | | |
| 285 | Functional traits explaining variation in plant life history strategies | Peter Adler | Utah State University | public | | |
| 267 | Functional Traits for Restoration Ecology in the Colombian Amazon | Andres Gonzalez-Melo | | public | | |
| 264 | Functional Traits Of Bulgarian Grasslands | Kiril Vassilev | Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and Arts | public | | |
| 152 | Functional Traits of Graminoids in Semi-Arid Steppes Database | Peter Adler | Utah State University | public | | |
| 439 | Functional Traits of Trees
(link) | C. E. Timothy Paine | University of Stirling | public | | |
| 377 | Functional Traits of Trees in Golfo Dulce, Costa Rica | Eduardo Chacon | University of Costa Rica | public | | |
| 357 | Functional traits of woody species in the Brazilian semi-arid region | Guilherme Mazzochini | Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte | public | | |
| 250 | FYNBASE - Database of Plant Traits From the South African Fynbos Biome | Frank Schurr | University of Hohenheim | public | | |
| 416 | Garmisch-Partenkirchen elevational gradients | Solveig Franziska Bucher | Friedrich Schiller University Jena | public | | |
| 130 | Global 15N Database | Joseph Craine | Jonah Ventures | public | | |
| 94 | Global A, N, P, SLA Database | Peter Reich | University of Minnesota | public | | |
| 432 | Global Dataset of Maximum Rooting Depth | Ying Fan Reinfelder | Rutgers University | public | | |
| 81 | Global Leaf Element Composition Database | Steven Jansen | Ulm University | public | | |
| 436 | Global Leaf Gas Exchange Database (I)
(link) | Yan-Shih Lin | | public | | |
| 437 | Global Leaf Gas Exchange Database (II)
(link) | Belinda Medlyn | Western Sydney University | public | | |
| 279 | Global Leaf Phenology Database | Ian Wright | Macquarie University | public | | |
| 87 | Global Leaf Robustness and Physiology Database | Ülo Niinemets | Estonian University of Life Sciences | public | | |
| 340 | Global leaf size dataset | Ian Wright | Macquarie University | public | | |
| 198 | Global Leaf-Sapwood Area Ratios | Maurizio Mencuccini | | public | | |
| 286 | Global Respiration Database | Owen Atkin | Australian National University | public | | |
| 96 | Global Respiration Database | Peter Reich | University of Minnesota | public | | |
| 28 | Global Seed Mass, Plant Height Database | Angela Moles | University of New South Wales | public | | |
| 62 | Global Vessel Anatomy Database | Amy Zanne | University of Missouri | public | | |
| 244 | Global Wood Anatomy Database 1 | Frederic Lens | Naturalis Biodiversity Center | public | | |
| 82 | Global Wood Anatomy Database 2 | Steven Jansen | Ulm University | public | | |
| 258 | Global Wood Decomposition Database (version 1.1) | James Weedon | | public | | |
| 61 | Global Wood Density Database
(link) | Amy Zanne | University of Missouri | public | | |
| 280 | Global Woodiness Database | Will Cornwell | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam | public | | |
| 20 | GLOPNET - Global Plant Trait Network Database
(link) | Ian Wright | Macquarie University | public | | |
| 320 | Grassland Plant Trait Database | Meelis Pärtel | University of Tartu | public | | |
| 394 | Great Basin sagebrush seedlings-greenhouse experiment | Courtney Collins | University of California Riverside | public | | |
| 186 | Growth and Herbivory of Juvenil Trees | Hervé Jactel | Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA) | public | | |
| 237 | Harze Trait Intravar: SLA, LDMC and Plant Height for Calcareous Grassland Species in South Belgium | Mélanie Harzé | University of Ličge | public | | |
| 422 | Hawaii native and non indigenous species. Traits and environment | Zdravko Baruch | University of Adelaide | public | | |
| 114 | Hawaiian Leaf Traits Database | Josep Peńuelas | Universitat Autňnoma de Barcelona | public | | |
| 266 | Hawaiian Lobeliad | Rebecca Montgomery | University of Minnesota | public | | |
| 447 | Herbaceous plants of Rouge National Urban Park | Marc Cadotte | University of Toronto-Scarborough | public | | |
| 207 | Herbaceous Plants Traits From Southern Germany | Christine Roemermann | Universität Jena | public | | |
| 115 | Herbaceous Traits from the Öland Island Database | Thomas Hickler | LOEWE Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre | public | | |
| 212 | Herbs Water Relations on Soil Moisture Gradients | Serge Sheremetev | Komarov Botanical Institute | public | | |
| 307 | Hokkaido leaf traits | Akira Mori | | public | | |
| 229 | Hydrophytes Traits Database | Bruno E. L. Cerabolini | University of Insubria | restricted | 2019-03-26 | |
| 204 | Impatiens Glandulifera Dataset | Anna Pahl | Technische Universität München | public | | |
| 403 | Iranian Plant Trait Dataset | Mehdi Abedi | Tarbiat Modares University | public | | |
| 164 | Italian Alps Plant Traits Database | Matteo Dainese | University of Würzburg | public | | |
| 405 | JACARE A-Ci leaf trait data base 2017 | Owen Atkin | Australian National University | public | | |
| 55 | Jasper Ridge Californian Woody Plants Database | Will Cornwell | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam | public | | |
| 293 | Jasper Ridge leaf chemistry data | Kyla Dahlin | Michigan State University | public | | |
| 60 | KEW African Plant Traits Database | Don Kirkup | Royal Botanic Gardens KEW | public | | |
| 21 | KEW Seed Information Database (SID)
(link) | Udayangani Liu | Kew | public | | |
| 449 | KIT herbaceous functional gradient (median) | Teja Kattenborn | Leipzig University | public | | |
| 355 | Knautia arvensis; Mid-Norway | Knut Hovstad | Bioforsk | public | | |
| 183 | Komati Leaf Trait Data | Wesley Hattingh | University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg | public | | |
| 393 | LABDENDRO Brazilian Subtropical Forest Traits Database [Dataset II] | Ana Carolina Silva | Santa Catarina State University | public | | |
| 232 | LBA ECO CD02: Tapajos Leaf Water Potential | Tomas Domingues | | public | | |
| 255 | LBA ECO Tapajos: Leaf Characteristics and Photosynthesis | Tomas Domingues | | public | | |
| 224 | LBA-ECO CD-02 C and N Isotopes in Leaves and Atmospheric CO2, Amazonas, Brazil | Alessandro de Araujo | | public | | |
| 262 | LBA-ECO CD-09 Soil and Vegetation Characteristics, Tapajos National Forest, Brazil | Mathew Williams | University of Edinburgh | public | | |
| 424 | LCE: Leaf carbon exchange dataset for tropical, temperate, and boreal species of North and Central A
(link) | Nick Smith | Texas Tech University | public | | |
| 205 | Leaf Allometry Dataset | Charles Price | University of Western Australia | public | | |
| 50 | Leaf and Whole Plant Traits Database | Bill Shipley | Université de Sherbrooke | public | | |
| 111 | Leaf and Whole-Plant Traits Database: Hydraulic and Gas Exchange Physiology, Anatomy, Venation Struc | Lawren Sack | University of California | public | | |
| 321 | Leaf angles | Jan Pisek | Tartu Observatory | public | | |
| 417 | Leaf angles Raabe et al 2015 | Jan Pisek | Tartu Observatory | public | | |
| 209 | Leaf Area, Dry Mass and SLA Dataset | Brandon Schamp | Algoma University | public | | |
| 180 | Leaf Ash Content in China's Terrestrial Plants | Wenxuan Han | China Agricultural University | public | | |
| 124 | Leaf Biomechanics Database | Yusuke Onoda | Kyushu University | public | | |
| 172 | Leaf Characteristics of Pinus Sylvestris and Picea Abies | Katrin Fleischer | VU Amsterdam | public | | |
| 109 | Leaf Chemical Defense Database | Tara Massad | Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry | public | | |
| 221 | Leaf Economic Traits Across Varying Environmental Conditions | Justin Wright | Duke University | public | | |
| 423 | Leaf economic traits in wheat and maize
(link) | Adam Martin | University of Toronto | public | | |
| 362 | Leaf economics spectrum and venation networks in Populus tremuloides | Benjamin Blonder | University of Arizona | public | | |
| 389 | Leaf element composition of ferns and lycophytes | Steven Jansen | Ulm University | public | | |
| 295 | Leaf functional traits in the Hawaiian silversword alliance | Benjamin Blonder | University of Arizona | public | | |
| 179 | Leaf Gross Morphometrics Within one Species in Relation to Latitude, Altitude and Time | Greg Guerin | | public | | |
| 195 | Leaf Herbivores, Fibres and Secondary Compounds For European Grassland Species | Jessy Loranger | Université de Sherbrooke | public | | |
| 400 | Leaf Mass Area, Leaf Carbon and Nitrogen Content, Barrow, Alaska
(link) | Alistair Rogers | Brookhaven National Laboratory | public | | |
| 167 | Leaf N-Retention Database | Franciska de Vries | | public | | |
| 181 | Leaf Nitrogen and Phosphorus for China's Terrestrial Plants | Wenxuan Han | China Agricultural University | public | | |
| 326 | Leaf nutrient concentrations | Victor Rolo Romero | Mendel University | public | | |
| 407 | Leaf nutrient concentration_Scalon et al. 2017
(link) | Marina Scalon | | public | | |
| 404 | Leaf nutrients and SLA for old field shrubs and small trees from northeastern Connecticut, USA | Nicole Kinlock | Stony Brook University | public | | |
| 154 | Leaf Photosynthesis and Nitrogen at Oak Ridge Dataset | Dennis Baldocchi | University of California | public | | |
| 67 | Leaf Physiology Database | Jens Kattge | Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry | public | | |
| 358 | Leaf Respiration Acclimation in Panama | Martijn Slot | | public | | |
| 252 | Leaf Structure and Chemistry | Bill Shipley | Université de Sherbrooke | public | | |
| 227 | Leaf Structure and Economics Spectrum | Bruno E. L. Cerabolini | University of Insubria | restricted | 2019-03-26 | |
| 226 | Leaf Structure, Venation and Economic Spectrum | Benjamin Blonder | University of Arizona | public | | |
| 388 | Leaf traits (and a few seed weights) collected from plants in the Macquarie Marshes, Australia | Samantha Dawson | SLU, Sweden | public | | |
| 338 | Leaf Traits and Seed Mass of Cover Crops | Hélčne Tribouillois | INRA Toulouse | public | | |
| 348 | Leaf traits data (SLA) for 56 woody species at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute-Forest | Erika B. Gonzalez-Akre | Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institu | public | | |
| 315 | Leaf traits for Picea glauca and Pinus sylvestris on University of Calgary (Canada) campus | Sean Michaletz | University of Arizona | public | | |
| 381 | Leaf traits from Baltic Island species | Markus Bernhardt-Römermann | Friedrich Schiller University Jena | public | | |
| 454 | Leaf traits from ECOSHRUB Dovrefjell Norway | Mia Vedel Sřrensen | NTNU | public | | |
| 165 | Leaf Traits From Madagascar | Kerry Brown | Kingston University London | public | | |
| 304 | Leaf traits from North West Italy | Giovanni Gligora | | public | | |
| 194 | Leaf Traits From the LBA SECA Rain Exclusion Experiment
(link) | Jens Kattge | Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry | public | | |
| 300 | Leaf traits from the Loess Plateau region of northern Shaanxi in China | Yongfu Chai | School of Life Science | public | | |
| 161 | Leaf Traits in Central Apennines Beech Forests | Giandiego Campetella | | public | | |
| 220 | Leaf Traits in Italian Central Apennines Beech Forests | Giandiego Campetella | | public | | |
| 234 | Leaf Traits Mount Hutt, New Zealand | Gregoire Freschet | CNRS | public | | |
| 346 | Leaf traits of Dipterocarpus alatus Roxb. ex. G. Don | Anh Tuan Dang-Le | University of Science, VN Universities | public | | |
| 318 | Leaf traits related to mesophyll conductance in wild relatives of tomato (Solanum lycopersicon) | Christopher Muir | University of British Columbia | public | | |
| 373 | Leaf vein density of Fagus sylvatica L. and Quercus faginea Lam. | Raquel Benavides | | public | | |
| 421 | LECA - Traits of the European Alpine Flora | Louise Boulangeat | Laboratoire dEcologie Alpine, Grenoble | public | | |
| 387 | LEVA-UFPE plant trait database | Bruno Pinho | Universidade Federal de Pernambuco - UFP | public | | |
| 425 | Linking hard and soft traits | Michaël Belluau | Université de Sherbrooke | public | | |
| 157 | Litter N Content of Canadian Forests | Benjamin Bond-Lamberty | Joint Global Change Research Institute | public | | |
| 177 | Litter Traits Dataset | Pablo García-Palacios | Centre dEcologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive-CNRS | public | | |
| 333 | LMA, leaf tissue density and N&P content along the Amazon-Andes gradient in Peru | Marjan van de Weg | | public | | |
| 344 | LosTuxtlas_functionaltraits | Cristina Martinez-Garza | Universidad Autonoma del Estado de Morel | public | | |
| 372 | Malga San Simone Trait Database (MSS) | Bruno E. L. Cerabolini | University of Insubria | restricted | 2019-03-26 | |
| 291 | MARGINS - leaf traits database | Daniel Hornstein | HSWT | public | | |
| 206 | Maxfield Meadow, Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory - LMA | Quentin Read | USDA Agricultural Research Service | public | | |
| 214 | Maximum Height of Chinese Tree Species (From Silva Sinica) | Nathan Swenson | University of Maryland | public | | |
| 192 | Meadow Plant Traits: Biomass Allocation, Rooting depth | Vojtech Lanta | University of Turku | public | | |
| 349 | Mediterranean psammophytes | Daniela Ciccarelli | University of Pisa | public | | |
| 66 | Midwestern and Southern US Herbaceous Species Trait Database | Evan Weiher | University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire | public | | |
| 281 | Minimum Freezing Exposure Database | Daniel McGlinn | College of Charleston | public | | |
| 352 | Miombo tree species - leaf nutrients | Colleen Seymour | South African National Biodiversity Institute | public | | |
| 351 | Miombo tree species - SLA, leaf and seed size | Colleen Seymour | South African National Biodiversity Institute | public | | |
| 189 | Mycorrhiza Database | Ian Dickie | Lincoln University | public | | |
| 445 | Mycorrhizal Association Database | Gijsbert Werner | University of Oxford | public | | |
| 162 | Mycorrhizal Intensity Database Across the Former Soviet Union | Nadejda Soudzilovskaia | Leiden University | public | | |
| 64 | Neotropical Plant Traits Database | Ian Wright | Macquarie University | public | | |
| 98 | New South Wales Plant Traits Database | Michelle Leishman | Macquarie University | public | | |
| 133 | New York Old Field Plant Traits Database | Andrew Siefert | Syracuse University | public | | |
| 256 | Niwot Alpine Plant Traits | Marko Spasojevic | University of California Riverside | public | | |
| 451 | NodDB - a global database of plants with root-symbiotic nitrogen fixation | Leho Tedersoo | | public | | |
| 296 | Northern mixed-grass prairie species traits - Wyoming, USA | Dana Blumenthal | USDA-ARS | public | | |
| 240 | Nutrient Resorption Efficiency Database | Robert Jackson | | public | | |
| 353 | Old fields of Eastern US (Siefert Data) | Luka Negoita | Syracuse University | public | | |
| 371 | Olive Lawn Orchid Trait Database (OLO) | Bruno E. L. Cerabolini | University of Insubria | restricted | 2019-03-26 | |
| 410 | Onoda 2017 leaf dataset | Yusuke Onoda | Kyushu University | public | | |
| 188 | Orchid Trait Dataset | Yael Kisel | Independent Researcher | public | | |
| 65 | Overton/Wright New Zealand Database | Ian Wright | Macquarie University | public | | |
| 415 | Ozark glade grassland plants
(link) | Jesse Miller | UC Davis | public | | |
| 418 | Ozark Tree leaf traits | Marko Spasojevic | University of California Riverside | public | | |
| 440 | P50R - A global P50 & Resprouting Database
(link) | Juli Pausas | Centro de Investigaciones sobre Desertificación | public | | |
| 113 | Panama Leaf Traits Database | Julie Messier | University of Waterloo | public | | |
| 112 | Panama Plant Traits Database | S. Joseph Wright | Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute | public | | |
| 230 | Panama Tree Traits | Dylan Craven | German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) | public | | |
| 384 | Panama wood anatomy | Peter Hietz | | public | | |
| 201 | Phalaris Arundinacea Genotypes | Jane Molofsky | University of Vermont | public | | |
| 102 | Photosynthesis and Leaf Characteristics Database | Benjamin Blonder | University of Arizona | public | | |
| 385 | Photosynthesis Temperature Response Panama
(link) | Martijn Slot | | public | | |
| 101 | Photosynthesis Traits Database | Dennis Baldocchi | University of California | public | | |
| 342 | Photosynthesis Traits Worldwide
(link) | Vincent Maire | UQTR | public | | |
| 248 | Photosynthesis Type Database | Hendrik Poorter | Forschungszentrum Jülich | public | | |
| 278 | Photosynthetic Capacity Dataset | Patrick Meir | | public | | |
| 332 | Photosynthetic parameters, respiration and leaf traits of a Peruvian tropical montane cloud forest | Marjan van de Weg | | public | | |
| 272 | Plant Coastal Dune Traits (France, Aquitaine) | Estelle Forey | laboratoire ECODIV | public | | |
| 215 | Plant Functional Traits From the Province of Almeria (Spain) | Alexia Totte | Université Libre de Bruxelles | public | | |
| 170 | Plant Functional Traits of Arid Steppes in Eastern Morocco (ECWP-Morocco) | Cedric Frenette-Dussault | Géopole de l'Université de Sherbrooke | public | | |
| 380 | Plant growth form dataset for the New World
(link) | Kristine Engemann | Aarhus University | public | | |
| 122 | Plant Habit Database | Cyrille Violle | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) | public | | |
| 197 | Plant Hydraulic Traits | Stefano Manzoni | Stockholm University | public | | |
| 97 | Plant Physiology Database | Owen Atkin | Australian National University | public | | |
| 364 | Plant species high elevation dataset | Christien Steyn | University of Pretoria | public | | |
| 271 | Plant Trait Database from Bajo Calima Region (Buenaventura, Colombia) | Fernando Fernández-Méndez | Universidad del Tolima | public | | |
| 273 | Plant Trait Database in East and South-East Asia | Fumito Koike | Yokohama National University | public | | |
| 442 | Plant Trait Dataset for Tree-Like Growth Forms
(link) | Arthur Vinicius Rodrigues | Universidade de Blumenau–FURB | public | | |
| 163 | Plant Traits for Grassland Species (Konza Prairie, Kansas, USA) | Joseph Craine | Jonah Ventures | public | | |
| 193 | Plant Traits for Pinus and Juniperus Forests in Arizona | Daniel Laughlin | University of Wyoming | public | | |
| 329 | Plant traits from alpine plants on Mt. Malaya Khatipara | Nadejda Soudzilovskaia | Leiden University | public | | |
| 308 | Plant traits from Andorra | Benjamin Komac | Institut d Estudis Andorrans | public | | |
| 158 | Plant Traits from Circeo National Park, Italy | Sabina Burrascano | University of Rome La Sapienza | public | | |
| 306 | Plant traits from Costa Rica | Karen Holl | University of California, Santa Cruz | public | | |
| 319 | Plant Traits from Fynbos Forests in the Cape Region | Renske Onstein | German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) | public | | |
| 298 | Plant traits from Greby, Oeland, Sweden | Hans Henrik Bruun | University of Copenhagen | public | | |
| 366 | Plant Traits from LTER Matsch (Mazia), Italy | Veronika Fontana | Eurac | public | | |
| 203 | Plant Traits from Romania | Kinga Öllerer | Institute of Biology Bucharest, Romanian Academy | public | | |
| 275 | Plant Traits From Spanish Mediteranean shrublands | Nicolas Gross | INRAE | public | | |
| 335 | Plant traits from Wisconsin, USA | Evan Weiher | University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire | public | | |
| 100 | Plant Traits in Pollution Gradients Database | Madhur Anand | University of Guelph | public | | |
| 270 | Plant Traits of Acidic Grasslands in Central Spain | Begońa Peco | | public | | |
| 359 | Plant traits of Arabidopsis thaliana | Benjamin Blonder | University of Arizona | public | | |
| 156 | Plant Traits of Canadian Forests | Benjamin Bond-Lamberty | Joint Global Change Research Institute | public | | |
| 309 | Plant traits of grassland species | Kim La Pierre | | public | | |
| 218 | Plant Traits, Virginia, USA | Betsy von Holle | University of Central Florida | public | | |
| 178 | PLANTATT - Attributes of British and Irish Plants
(link) | Biological Records Centre (BRC) | Centre of Ecology and Hydrology | public | | |
| 92 | PLANTSdata USDA
(link) | Walton Green | Harvard University | public | | |
| 125 | Quercus Leaf C&N Database | Benjamin Yguel | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) | public | | |
| 196 | Rainfor Leaf Shape, Driptip, Compoundness and Size Database | Ana Malhado | UFAL - Universidade Federal de Alagoas | public | | |
| 396 | Rehabilitating Coastal dune forest | Victor Rolo Romero | Mendel University | public | | |
| 35 | Reich-Oleksyn Global Leaf N, P Database | Peter Reich | University of Minnesota | public | | |
| 208 | Response of Tree Growth to Light and Size, Barro Colorado Island, Panama | Nadja Rueger | German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) | public | | |
| 283 | Response of Tree Mortality to Light, Size and Past Growth, Barro Colorado Island, Panama | Nadja Rueger | German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) | public | | |
| 284 | Response of Tree Recruitment to Light, Barro Colorado Island, Panama | Nadja Rueger | German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) | public | | |
| 390 | Rhododendron leaf and root economics traits | Juliana Medeiros | The Holden Arboretum | public | | |
| 446 | Ring-width dataset of dead and living trees | Maxime Cailleret | WSL Birmensdorf | public | | |
| 323 | Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory WSR/gradient plant traits | Quentin Read | USDA Agricultural Research Service | public | | |
| 325 | Rollinson DBH | Emily Rollinson | East Stroudsburg University | public | | |
| 328 | Root Traits of Grassland Species | Stuart William Smith | Nanyang Technological University, Singapore | public | | |
| 10 | Roots Of the World (ROW) Database | Joseph Craine | Jonah Ventures | public | | |
| 223 | San Lorenzo Epiphyte Leaf Traits Database | Gerhard Zotz | University of Oldenburg | public | | |
| 265 | Saskatchewan Plant Trait Database | Eric Lamb | University of Saskatchewan | public | | |
| 171 | Seed Characteristics of Ericaceae | Jaime Fagundez | | public | | |
| 119 | Seed Information Database (SID) Seed Mass 2010
(link) | Udayangani Liu | Kew | public | | |
| 268 | Seed Longevity of European Early Successional Species | Harald Albrecht | Technische Universitaet Muenchen | public | | |
| 434 | Seed mass and nutrient concentration in Grevillea and Hakea species | Tianhua He | | public | | |
| 219 | Seed Mass from Literature | Zhonglei Wang | Michigan State University | public | | |
| 409 | Seed trait data from Neuschulz et al. 2016 Sci REp. | Eike Lena Neuschulz | Senckenberg BiK-F | public | | |
| 395 | Senckenberg leaf venation data of West African Plants | Julio Schneider | Senckenberg Research Institute and Natur | public | | |
| 72 | Sheffield & Spain Woody Database | Johannes Cornelissen | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam | public | | |
| 37 | Sheffield Database | Johannes Cornelissen | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam | public | | |
| 86 | Sheffield-Iran-Spain Database | Sandra Díaz | Universidad Nacional de Cordoba | public | | |
| 419 | Sherbrooke | Yuanzhi Li | | public | | |
| 314 | Shoot dry mass of annual grassland species | Zia Mehrabi | University of Oxford | public | | |
| 322 | Shoot N/P stoichiometry of Inner Mongolia grassland species | Qiang Yu | Chinese Academy of Sciences | public | | |
| 294 | Siberian shrub allometry | Logan Berner | Northern Arizona University | public | | |
| 160 | SLA and LDMC for Canadian Wetland Species | Chaeho Byun | Andong National University | public | | |
| 47 | South African Woody Plants Database (ZLTP) | William Bond | University of Cape Town | public | | |
| 382 | Species able to reproduce after fire in a Brazilian Savanna | Aelton Giroldo | | public | | |
| 383 | Species and trait shifts in Apennine grasslands | Eleonora Giarrizzo | Sapienza University of Rome | public | | |
| 301 | Specific leaf area responses to environmental gradients through space and time | John Dwyer | The University of Queensland | public | | |
| 343 | Sphagnum tissue CNP | Bjorn Robroek | University of Southampton | public | | |
| 379 | Stomatal conductance photosynthesis, soil water content & survival along a water stress experiment | Michaël Belluau | Université de Sherbrooke | public | | |
| 311 | Structural and biochemical leaf traits of boreal tree species in Finland | Petr Lukes | CzechGlobe | public | | |
| 444 | Symbiotic N2-Fixation Database
(link) | Gijsbert Werner | University of Oxford | public | | |
| 129 | The Americas N&P database
(link) | Brian Enquist | University of Arizona | public | | |
| 269 | The Bridge Database
(link) | Chris Baraloto | Florida International University | public | | |
| 443 | The China Plant Trait Database
(link) | Han Wang | | public | | |
| 108 | The DIRECT Plant Trait Database | Peter Manning | | public | | |
| 68 | The Functional Ecology of Trees (FET) Database - Jena | Christian Wirth | University of Leipzig | public | | |
| 412 | The Global Leaf Traits | Serge Sheremetev | Komarov Botanical Institute | public | | |
| 25 | The LEDA Traitbase
(link) | Michael Kleyer | University of Oldenburg | public | | |
| 116 | The Netherlands Plant Height Database | Wim Ozinga | Alterra | public | | |
| 88 | The Netherlands Plant Traits Database | Jenny Ordonez | Wageningen University | public | | |
| 34 | The RAINFOR Plant Trait Database | Jon Lloyd | James Cook University | public | | |
| 95 | The Tansley Review LMA Database | Hendrik Poorter | Forschungszentrum Jülich | public | | |
| 45 | The VISTA Plant Trait Database | Eric Garnier | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) | public | | |
| 251 | The Xylem/Phloem Database
(link) | Fritz Schweingruber | | public | | |
| 426 | Ti Tree | Rachael Nolan | Western Sydney University | public | | |
| 292 | TOPIC (Traits of Plants in Canada) | Isabelle Aubin | Canadian Forest Service | public | | |
| 428 | Trait and biomass data 2014 and 2015 of the BE_LOW project | Helge Bruelheide | Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg | public | | |
| 350 | Trait Data for African Plants - a Photo Guide | Marco Schmidt | Palmengarten | public | | |
| 370 | Trait Data from Niwot Ridge LTER (2016) | Adam Chmurzynski | Arizona State University | public | | |
| 456 | Trait-responses of Impatiens species to light and nutrients | Vanessa Minden | | public | | |
| 429 | TraitDunes | Alicia T.R. Acosta | Universitŕ di Roma Tre | public | | |
| 369 | Traits and ecological strategies of 66 subtropical tree species in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest
(link) | Alexandre Souza | | public | | |
| 216 | Traits for Common Grasses and Herbs in Spain | Fernando Valladares | Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales CSIC | public | | |
| 168 | Traits for Herbaceous Species from Andorra | Clara Pladevall | Institut d'Estudis Andorrans | public | | |
| 169 | Traits for Submerged Species (Aquatic Macrophytes) | Matthew Dunkle | University of Montana | public | | |
| 302 | Traits from Semi-Arid Mediterranean Ecosystems | Daniel Flynn | | public | | |
| 105 | Traits from Subarctic Plant Species Database | Gregoire Freschet | CNRS | public | | |
| 202 | Traits from the Wildfire Project | Marco Moretti | Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL | public | | |
| 347 | Traits of 59 grassland species | Alexandra Weigelt | University of Leipzig | public | | |
| 52 | Traits of Bornean Trees Database | Hiroko Kurokawa | Tohoku University | restricted | 2019-03-26 | |
| 374 | Traits of fertile (spore bearing) leaves of rainforest ferns from El Verde Field, Puerto Rico | Joanne Sharpe | | public | | |
| 247 | Traits of Halohytic Species in North-West-Germany | Vanessa Minden | | public | | |
| 290 | Traits of halophytic species | Vanessa Minden | | public | | |
| 166 | Traits of Hemiparastic Plants | Andreas Demey | Ghent University | public | | |
| 317 | Traits of Hypochaeris radicata under shade and drought conditions | Rachel Mitchell | University of Washington | public | | |
| 297 | Traits of Polygonum viviparum L. | Florian Boucher | Institute of Systematic Botany | public | | |
| 331 | Traits of savannah trees in the Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Game reserve, South Africa | Fons van der Plas | University of Bern | public | | |
| 375 | Traits of sterile (non-spore bearing) leaves of rainforest ferns from El Verde Field, Puerto Rico | Joanne Sharpe | | public | | |
| 312 | Traits of temperate rainforest tree seedlings from New Zealand | Chris Lusk | University of Waikato | public | | |
| 378 | Traits of the Hungarian flora | Anikó Csecserits | Hungarian Academy of Science, Centre for Ecologica | public | | |
| 330 | Traits of Ukraine native and invasive plant species | Peter van Bodegom | Leiden University | public | | |
| 159 | Traits of US Desert Woody Plant Species | Bradley Butterfield | University of California | public | | |
| 299 | Traits related to riparian plant invasion in South East Australia | Jane Catford | Kings College London | public | | |
| 337 | Tree Anatomy China | Jingming Zheng | Beijing Forestry University | public | | |
| 365 | Tree of sex: a database of sexual systems
(link) | Sarah Otto | | public | | |
| 367 | Tree species functional traits from Dinghushan Biosphere Reserve, southern China | Pengcheng He | | public | | |
| 49 | Tree Tolerance Database
(link) | Ülo Niinemets | Estonian University of Life Sciences | public | | |
| 231 | TROBIT West Africa | Tomas Domingues | | public | | |
| 51 | Tropical Plant Traits From Borneo Database | Emily Swaine | Science and Technology Facilities Council | public | | |
| 33 | Tropical Rainforest Traits Database | Lourens Poorter | Wageningen University | public | | |
| 120 | Tropical Respiration Database
(link) | Jeffrey Chambers | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | public | | |
| 99 | Tropical Traits from West Java Database | Satomi Shiodera | Hokkaido University | public | | |
| 460 | TRY Categorical Traits Dataset (update 2018) | Angela Guenther | Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry | public | | |
| 73 | Tundra Plant Traits Database | F Stuart Chapin III | University of Alaska Fairbanks | public | | |
| 90 | Ukraine Wetlands Plant Traits Database | Peter van Bodegom | Leiden University | public | | |
| 277 | UV-B Radiation Sensitivity of Hieracium Pilosella | Michael Beckmann | Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) | public | | |
| 43 | VegClass CBM Global Database
(link) | Andy Gillison | Center for Biodiversity Management | cur. na | | | |
| 123 | VirtualForests Trait Database | Alvaro G. Gutierrez | Universidad Austral de Chile | public | | |
| 56 | Wetland Dunes Database | Peter van Bodegom | Leiden University | public | | |
| 199 | Whole Plant Hydraulic Conductance | Maurizio Mencuccini | | public | | |
| 406 | Whole plant traits and leaf traits of four grassland species in Central Apennines (Italy) | Giandiego Campetella | | public | | |
| 313 | Wood carbon content database | Adam Martin | University of Toronto | public | | |
| 433 | Wood carbon database | Adam Martin | University of Toronto | public | | |
| 368 | Wood traits of trees and lianas from the Brazilian Atlantic Forest | Arildo Dias | | restricted | 2019-03-26 | |
| 241 | Xylem Functional Traits (XFT) Database | Steven Jansen | Ulm University | public | | |
| 187 | Xylem Functional Traits (XFT) Database: Nature Subset | Steven Jansen | Ulm University | public | | |
| 398 | Yangambi (DR Congo) tropical forest tree traits | Kim Jacobsen | Ghent University | public | | |
| 459 | Yasuni Ecuador Leaf Drought Tolerance and Mechanical Toughness | Ian McFadden | University of California, Los Angeles | restricted | 2019-03-26 | |
| 190 | Yasuni Ecuador Leaves | Nathan Kraft | University of California Los Angeles | public | | |
| 413 | Zanne et al. Global wood density database. | Lopez-Gonzalez | | public | | |
