TRY – a global database of plant traits

作者：Jens Kattge, Soledad Dı́az, Sandra Lavorel, Iain Colin Prentice, Paul Leadley, Gerhard Bönisch, Éric Garnier, Mark Westoby, Peter B. Reich, Ian J. Wright, J. H. C. Cornelissen, Cyrille Violle, Sandy P. Harrison, Peter M. van Bodegom, Markus Reichstein, Brian Joseph Enquist, Nadejda A. Soudzilovskaia, David D. Ackerly, Muthusamy Anand, Owen K. Atkin, Michael Bahn, Timothy R. Baker, Dennis Baldocchi, R.M. Bekker, Carolina Casagrande Blanco, Benjamin Wong Blonder, William John Bond, Ross A. Bradstock, Dan Bunker, Fernando Casanoves, Jeannine M. Cavender-Bares, Jeffrey Quintin Chambers, F. Stuart Chapin, Jérôme Chave, David A. Coomes, William K. Cornwell, Joseph M. Craine, Barbara Dobrin, Leandro Duarte, Walter Durka, James J. Elser, GERD ESSER, Marc Estiarte, William F. Fagan, Jinwei Fang, Fernando Fernández‐Méndez, Alessandra Fidélis, Bryan Finegan, Olivier Flores, Henry Jones Ford, Dorothea Frank, Grégoire T. Freschet, Nikolaos M. Fyllas, Rachael V. Gallagher, W. A. GREEN, Álvaro G. Gutiérrez, Thomas Hickler, Steven I. Higgins, J. G. Hodgson, Amir Jalili, Steven Jansen, Carlos Alfredo Joly, Andrew J. Kerkhoff, Donald W. Kirkup, Kaoru Kitajima, Michael Kleyer, Stefan Klotz, Johannes M. H. Knops, K. Krämer, Ingolf Kühn, Hidemoto Kurokawa, Daniel C. Laughlin, Tali D. Lee, Michelle R. Leishman, Frederic Lens, Tanja I. Lenz, Simon L. Lewis, Jon Lloyd, Joan Llusià, Frédérique Louault, Sai Ma, Miguel D. Mahecha, Peter Manning, Tara Joy Massad, Belinda E. Medlyn, JEAN MESSIER, Angela T. Moles, Sandra Cristina Müller, Karin Nadrowski, S. NAEEM, Ülo Niinemets, Stephanie Nöllert, Alison Nuske, Romà Ogaya, Jacek Oleksyn, V. G. Onipchenko, Yusuke Onoda, Jenny C. Ordoñez, Gerhard Ernst Overbeck, W.A. Ozinga, S. Patiño, Susana Paula, Juli Garcia Pausas, Josep Peñuelas, Oliver Lawrence Phillips, Valério D. Pillar, Hendrik Poorter, Lourens Poorter, Peter Poschlod, Andréas Prinzing, Raphaël Proulx, Anja Rammig, Sabine Reinsch, Björn Reu, Lawren Sack, Beatriz Salgado‐Negret, Jordi Sardans, Satomi Shiodera, Bill Shipley, Andrew Siefert, Ênio Sosinski, Jean‐François Soussana, Emily K. Swaine, Nathan G. Swenson, Ken A. Thompson, PETER E. THORNTON, Matthew Waldram, Evan R. Weiher, Michael A. White, Sue White, S. Joseph Wright‬, Benjamin Yguel, Sönke Zaehle, Amy E. Zanne, Christian Wirth · 发表于：Global Change Biology · 年份：2011 · DOI：10.1111/j.1365-2486.2011.02451.x · 被引用次数：2699 · 研究领域：Forest ecology and management、Genetics and Plant Breeding、Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals

Abstract Plant traits – the morphological, anatomical, physiological, biochemical and phenological characteristics of plants and their organs – determine how primary producers respond to environmental factors, affect other trophic levels, influence ecosystem processes and services and provide a link from species richness to ecosystem functional diversity. Trait data thus represent the raw material for a wide range of research from evolutionary biology, community and functional ecology to biogeography. Here we present the global database initiative named TRY, which has united a wide range of the plant trait research community worldwide and gained an unprecedented buy‐in of trait data: so far 93 trait databases have been contributed. The data repository currently contains almost three million trait entries for 69 000 out of the world's 300 000 plant species, with a focus on 52 groups of traits characterizing the vegetative and regeneration stages of the plant life cycle, including growth, dispersal, establishment and persistence. A first data analysis shows that most plant traits are approximately log‐normally distributed, with widely differing ranges of variation across traits. Most trait variation is between species (interspecific), but significant intraspecific variation is also documented, up to 40% of the overall variation. Plant functional types (PFTs), as commonly used in vegetation models, capture a substantial fraction of the observed variation – but for several traits...