TRY - Plant Trait Database
- 1Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany (jkattge@bgc-jena.mpg.de)
- 2German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Germany
- 3Image Processing Laboratory (IPL), Image Signal Processing Group, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain
- 4Sensorbased Geoinformatics, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
- 5Universidad Nacional de Cordoba, Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Vegetal, Cordoba, Argentina
- 6Laboratoire d’Ecologie Alpine (LECA) CNRS, Grenoble, France
- 7Imperial College London, Faculty of Natural Science, Department of Life Sciences,, London, United Kingdom,
- 8University of Paris-Sud, Ecology, Systematics and Evolution Laboratory (ESE), Orsay, France
- 9University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
The TRY initiative (https://www.try-db.org) was established in 2007 on request from IGBP and DIVERSITAS to develop a joint database of in-situ measured plant traits supporting vegetation modelling and biodiversity research. Based on the mandate from the two initiatives, TRY has received significant contributions of original and integrated datasets from the global research community and achieved unprecedented coverage. The TRY database is regularly updated, and since 2019, data have been publicly available under a CC BY license.
Trait data from the TRY database are frequently used to map plant traits at global scales. We here provide an overview of the TRY database, briefly summarise trait mapping approaches highlighting caveats, and provide an outlook on upcoming developments in the context of the TRY database.
How to cite: Kattge, J., Boenisch, G., Dechant, B., Moreno-Martínez, Á., Kattenborn, T., Díaz, S., Lavorel, S., Prentice, I. C., Leadley, P., Wirth, C., and Consortium, T. T.: TRY - Plant Trait Database, EGU General Assembly 2024, Vienna, Austria, 14–19 Apr 2024, EGU24-6174, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu24-6174, 2024.
