MelastomaTRAITs 1.0: A database of functional traits in M elastomataceae, a large pantropical angiosperm family

作者：Marcelo Reginato, Carlos A. Ordóñez‐Parra, João Vitor S. Messeder, Vinícius Lourenço Garcia de Brito, Agnes S. Dellinger, Ricardo Kriebel, Camilla Cristina Teles Marra, Lilian Faria de Melo, Tatiana Cornelissen, Lisieux Fuzessy, Patrícia Sperotto, Manuela Calderón‐Hernández, Tadeu J. Guerra, Constantin Kopper, Carolina Mancipe‐Murillo, Marco Aurélio Pizo, Juan Mauricio Posada‐Herrera, Érica Hasui, Wesley Rodrigues Silva, Fernando A. O. Silveira · 发表于：Ecology · 年份：2024 · DOI：10.1002/ecy.4308 · 被引用次数：6 · 研究领域：Plant Diversity and Evolution、Plant and Fungal Species Descriptions、Botanical Research and Applications

The recent availability of open-access repositories of functional traits has revolutionized trait-based approaches in ecology and evolution. Nevertheless, the underrepresentation of tropical regions and lineages remains a pervasive bias in plant functional trait databases, which constrains large-scale assessments of plant ecology, evolution, and biogeography. Here, we present MelastomaTRAITs 1.0, a comprehensive and updatable database of functional traits for the pantropical Melastomataceae, the ninth-largest angiosperm family with 177 genera and more than 5800 species. Melastomataceae encompass species with a wide diversity of growth forms (herbs, shrubs, trees, epiphytes, and woody climbers), habitats (including tropical forests, savannas, grasslands, and wetlands from sea level to montane areas above the treeline), ecological strategies (from pioneer, edge-adapted and invasive species to shade-tolerant understory species), geographic distribution (from microendemic to continental-wide distribution), reproductive, pollination, and seed dispersal systems. MelastomaTRAITs builds on 581 references, such as taxonomic monographs, ecological research, and unpublished data, and includes four whole-plant traits, six leaf traits, 11 flower traits, 18 fruit traits, and 27 seed traits for 2520 species distributed in 144 genera across all 21 tribes. Most data come from the Neotropics where the family is most species-rich. Miconieae (the largest tribe) contains the highest number of tra...