Marcelo Reginato, Carlos A Ordónez-Parra, João Vitor S Messeder, Vinicius L G Brito, Agnes Dellinger, Ricardo Kriebel, Camilla Marra, Lilian Melo, Tatiana Cornelissen, Lisieux Fuzessy, Patricia Sperotto, Manuela Calderón-Hernández, Tadeu J Guerra, Constantin Kopper, Carolina Mancipe-Murillo, Marco A Pizo, Juan Mauricio Posada-Herrera, Érica Hasui, Wesley R Silva, Fernando A O Silveira
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...
April 17, 2024: Ecology