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FunAndes – A functional trait database of Andean plants

2022; Nature Portfolio; Volume: 9; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1038/s41597-022-01626-6

2052-4463

Selene Báez, Luis Cayuela, Manuel J. Macía, Esteban Álvarez‐Dávila, Amira Apaza‐Quevedo, Itziar Arnelas, Natalia Baca-Cortes, Guillermo Bañares‐de‐Dios, Marijn Bauters, Celina Ben Saadi, Cecilia Blundo, Marian Cabrera, Felipe Castaño, Leslie Cayola, Julia G. de Aledo, Carlos I. Espinosa, Belén Fadrique, William Farfán-Ríos, Alfredo Fuentes, Claudia Garnica‐Díaz, Mailyn González, Diego González, Isabell Hensen, Ana Belén Hurtado‐M, Oswaldo Jadán, Denis Lippok, M. Isabel Loza, Carla Maldonado, Lucio R. Malizia, Laura Matas‐Granados, Jonathan A. Myers, Natalia Norden, Imma Oliveras, Kerstin Pierick, Hirma Ramírez‐Angulo, Beatriz Salgado‐Negret, Matthias Schleuning, Miles R. Silman, María E. Solarte-Cruz, J. Sebastián Tello, Hans Verbeeck, Emilio Vilanova, Greta Weithmann, Jürgen Homeier,

Forest ecology and management

Abstract We introduce the FunAndes database, a compilation of functional trait data for the Andean flora spanning six countries. FunAndes contains data on 24 traits across 2,694 taxa, for a total of 105,466 entries. The database features plant-morphological attributes including growth form, and leaf, stem, and wood traits measured at the species or individual level, together with geographic metadata (i.e., coordinates and elevation). FunAndes follows the field names, trait descriptions and units of measurement of the TRY database. It is currently available in open access in the FIGSHARE data repository, and will be part of TRY’s next release. Open access trait data from Andean plants will contribute to ecological research in the region, the most species rich terrestrial biodiversity hotspot.