AusTraits, a curated plant trait database for the Australian flora

2021-09-30

Falster, Daniel

Gallagher, Rachael

Wenk, Elizabeth H

Wright, Ian J

Indiarto, Dony

Andrew, Samuel C

Baxter, Caitlan

Lawson, James

Allen, Stuart

Fuchs, Anne

Monro, Anna

Kar, Fonti

Adams, Mark A

Ahrens, Collin W

Alfonzetti, Matthew

Angevin, Tara

Apgaua, Deborah M G

Arndt, Stefan

Atkin, Owen K

Atkinson, Joe

Auld, Tony

Baker, Andrew

von Balthazar, Maria

Bean, Anthony

Blackman, Chris J

Bloomfield, Keith

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Bragg, Jason

Brodribb, Timothy J

Buckton, Genevieve

Burrows, Geoff

Caldwell, Elizabeth

Camac, James

Carpenter, Raymond

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Cawthray, Gregory R

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Chandler, Gregory

Chapman, Alex R

Cheal, David

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Chen, Si-Chong

Choat, Brendan

Clinton, Brook

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Cornwell, William K

Cosgrove, Meredith

Crisp, Michael

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Cunningham, Saul

Curran, Timothy

Curtis, Ellen

Daws, Matthew I

DeGrabriel, Jane L

Denton, Matthew D

Dong, Ning

Du, Pengzhen

Duan, Honglang

Duncan, David H

Duncan, Richard P

Duretto, Marco

Dwyer, John M

Edwards, Cheryl

Esperon-Rodriguez, Manuel

Evans, John R

Everingham, Susan E

Farrell, Claire

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French, Ben J

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Ghannoum, Oula

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Grootemaat, Saskia

Gross, Caroline

Guerin, Greg

Guja, Lydia

Hahs, Amy K

Harrison, Matthew Tom

Hayes, Patrick E

Henery, Martin

Hochuli, Dieter

Howell, Jocelyn

Huang, Guomin

Hughes, Lesley

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Ilic, Jugoslav

Jagdish, Ashika

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Jurado, Enrique

Kanowski, John

Kasel, Sabine

Kellermann, Jürgen

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Lai, Hao Ran

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Lanfear, Robert

van Langevelde, Frank

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Liu, Udayangani

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Lusk, Christopher H

Macinnis-Ng, Cate

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Magallón, Susana

Manea, Anthony

López-Martinez, Andrea

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van der Merwe, Marlien

Metcalfe, Daniel J

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Moore, Ben D

Moore, Nicholas

Morgan, John W

Morris, William

Muir, Annette

Munroe, Samantha

Nicholson, Áine

Nicolle, Dean

Nicotra, Adrienne B

Niinemets, Ülo

North, Tom

O'reilly-Nugent, Andrew

O'Sullivan, Odhran S

Oberle, Brad

Onoda, Yusuke

Ooi, Mark K J

Osborne, Colin P

Paczkowska, Grazyna

Pekin, Burak

Pereira, Caio Guilherme

Pickering, Catherine

Pickup, Melinda

Pollock, Laura J

Poot, Pieter

Powell, Jeff R

Power, Sally A

Prentice, Iain Colin

Prior, Lynda

Prober, Suzanne M

Read, Jennifer

Reynolds, Victoria

Richards, Anna E

Richardson, Ben

Roderick, Michael L

Rosell, Julieta A

Rossetto, Maurizio

Rye, Barbara

Rymer, Paul D

Sams, Michael A

Sanson, Gordon

Sauquet, Hervé

Schmidt, Susanne

Schönenberger, Jürg

Schulze, Ernst-Detlef

Sendall, Kerrie

Sinclair, Steve

Smith, Benjamin

Smith, Renee

Soper, Fiona

Sparrow, Ben

Standish, Rachel J

Staples, Timothy L

Stephens, Ruby

Szota, Christopher

Taseski, Guy

Tasker, Elizabeth

Thomas, Freya

Tissue, David T

Tjoelker, Mark G

Tng, David Yue Phin

de Tombeur, Félix

Tomlinson, Kyle

Turner, Neil C

Veneklaas, Erik J

Venn, Susanna

Vesk, Peter

Vlasveld, Carolyn

Vorontsova, Maria S

Warren, Charles A

Warwick, Nigel

Weerasinghe, Lasantha K

Wells, Jessie

Westoby, Mark

White, Matthew

Williams, Nicholas S G

Wills, Jarrah

Wilson, Peter G

Yates, Colin

Zanne, Amy E

Zemunik, Graham

Ziemińska, Kasia

Journal Article

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Publication

Nature Publishing Group

United Kingdom

10.1038/s41597-021-01006-6

une:1959.11/31686

We introduce the AusTraits database - a compilation of values of plant traits for taxa in the Australian flora (hereafter AusTraits). AusTraits synthesises data on 448 traits across 28,640 taxa from field campaigns, published literature, taxonomic monographs, and individual taxon descriptions. Traits vary in scope from physiological measures of performance (e.g. photosynthetic gas exchange, water-use efficiency) to morphological attributes (e.g. leaf area, seed mass, plant height) which link to aspects of ecological variation. AusTraits contains curated and harmonised individual- and species-level measurements coupled to, where available, contextual information on site properties and experimental conditions. This article provides information on version 3.0.2 of AusTraits which contains data for 997,808 trait-by-taxon combinations. We envision AusTraits as an ongoing collaborative initiative for easily archiving and sharing trait data, which also provides a template for other national or regional initiatives globally to fill persistent gaps in trait knowledge.

Measurement(s)	plant trait
Technology Type(s)	digital curation
Sample Characteristic - Organism	Viridiplantae
Sample Characteristic - Location	Australia

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