Roots in the TRY database?

Kattge, Jens

OOS 21-3
Roots in the TRY database?

Wednesday, August 13, 2014: 8:40 AM

203, Sacramento Convention Center

Jens Kattge, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany

Sandra Díaz, CONICET - Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Vegetal, Córdoba, Argentina

Sandra Lavorel, Laboratoire d'Ecologie Alpine, Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France

I. Colin Prentice, Imperial College, London, England

Paul W. Leadley, Laboratoire Ecologie Systématique Evolution, Université Paris Sud, Orsay, France

Gerhard Bönisch, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany

Arindam Banerjee, Computer Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN

Farideh Fazayeli, Computer Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN

Hanhuai Shan, Computer Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN

Franziska Schrodt, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany

Julia Joswig, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany

Peter B. Reich, Department of Forest Resources, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN

Christian Wirth, Functional Biogeography Fellow Group, Max-Planck-Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany

Background/Question/Methods

During the last years the TRY initiative has combined an unprecedented number of plant trait measurements and has made these data available for trait-based approaches in ecology and biodiversity science and for the improvement of vegetation models (www.try-db.org).

Results/Conclusions

Here we will present recent progress with respect to (1) the new Intellectual Property Guidelines of the TRY initiative, which facilitate public data access; (2) updated data coverage: where are we missing data? Which PFTs? Which areas of the globe?; (3) the representation of root traits in the TRY database; and (4) improved probabilistic models to statistically fill gaps in the TRY trait matrix.

OOS 21-3 Roots in the TRY database?

OOS 21-3
Roots in the TRY database?