FunAndes – A functional trait database of Andean plants

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

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“…At larger scales, efforts to mobilize and integrate existing datasets, particularly those focused on particular geographic regions (e.g. Tavs ßano glu & Pausas, 2018; Falster et al, 2021;B aez et al, 2022) or types of traits (e.g. Iversen et al, 2017;LeBauer et al, 2018;Guerrero-Ram ırez et al, 2021), hold promise to rapidly advance the state of our knowledge (Feng et al, 2022).…”

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A global assessment of the Raunkiæran shortfall in plants: geographic biases in our knowledge of plant traits

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A global assessment of the Raunkiæran shortfall in plants: geographic biases in our knowledge of plant traits

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“…Rasgos‐CL represents a significant step forward for trait ecology in southern South America, which has been underrepresented in many global and regional analyses of functional diversity and trait‐environment relationships (e.g. Báez et al, 2022; Wieczynski et al, 2019). While trait ecology has a long, vibrant history in the region (e.g.…”

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“…Chytrý et al, 2021; Peyre et al, 2022), it has yet to be applied broadly in trait research (Gallagher et al, 2020; Sterner et al, 2020). Recent initiatives in Brazil (Mariano et al, 2021), the Andes (Báez et al, 2022) and the Azores (Borges et al, 2010) have built open‐access trait datasets for an impressive number of taxa by compiling both published and unpublished datasets. This regional approach also addresses some of the intrinsic barriers that have contributed to the persistence of gaps in biodiversity data: language and professional networks (Amano et al, 2016; Ivanova & Shashkov, 2017).…”

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“…Particularly in large‐scale trait databases and resulting analyses (e.g. Báez et al, 2022; Wieczynski et al, 2019), trait records data from Chile are largely absent, despite the high endemism of its flora (Arroyo et al, 1996; Villagrán & Hinojosa, 1997) along latitudinal and elevational gradients (Di Castri & Hajek, 1976; Luebert & Pliscoff, 2006). We therefore built the first comprehensive database of plant functional traits for Chile, taking advantage of its well‐described vascular flora (Rodriguez et al, 2018).…”

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Rasgos‐CL: A functional trait database of Chilean woody plants

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Pérez‐Tello,

Acevedo

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Global Ecol Biogeogr

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MotivationDue to language and networking barriers, global initiatives to compile trait data often fail to integrate data from sources in non‐English languages or scientists that largely speak and write in non‐English languages. To illustrate the potential for regional databases to fill gaps in trait data, and how such databases may fill critical gaps in global biodiversity databases, we built the Rasgos‐CL Database. Rasgos‐CL provides a comprehensive set of plant traits for the woody flora of Chile by mobilizing and standardizing unstructured data largely from the Spanish‐language literature. We quantified the gains in trait coverage compared to global trait databases and identified phylogenetic and geographic biases of trait data gaps.Main Types of Variables ContainedRasgos‐CL contains 25,174 trait records, including 2 continuous and 21 categorical traits for 662 woody species.Spatial Location and GrainNational coverage, with species that occur across all ecosystems in continental Chile.Time Period and GrainData were extracted from sources published between 1833 and 2023.Major Taxa and Level of MeasurementRasgos‐CL includes trait data aggregated at the species level for 662 tree and shrub species, and also provides trait records from individual data sources.Software FormatRasgos‐CL includes four csv files. A GitHub repository contains the csv files.

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“…If different fruit lengths and widths were reported for a species by different studies, we used the maximum, although there was usually consistency among the literature. Data of leaf area (in mm 2 ) and plant height (in m) were derived from the TRY plant trait database (Kattge et al., 2020), complemented by the Botanical Information and Ecology Network database (BIEN) and published literature (Báez et al., 2022; Burkill, 1944; Burns et al., 2012; Dissanayake et al., 2022; Gallagher & Leishman, 2012; Ravi et al., 2020; Tavşanoğlu & Pausas, 2018). In total, our study extracted 349 plant species and 932 frugivore species and subspecies with detailed information (e.g.…”

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Contrasting effects of frugivore assemblages and phylogeny on global variation in fruit length and width

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Zhang,

Wang

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Global Ecol Biogeogr

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AimThe evolution of fruit size is poorly understood, though long‐standing hypotheses, the dispersal syndrome hypothesis and correlated evolution hypothesis, have highlighted the influence of frugivores and phylogeny on fruit size variation.LocationInteraction networks were extracted from studies carried out in Asia, Europe, Africa, Hawaii, Australia, New Zealand and the Neotropics.Time PeriodUp to 50 years between 1970 and 2022.Major Taxa StudiedFrugivores (birds and mammals) and fleshy‐fruited plants.MethodsWe compiled a global data set on fruit size (i.e. width and length) and plant traits (i.e. leaf area and plant height) for 349 fleshy‐fruited plants, and the body mass of frugivores from 326 interaction networks. We constructed a plant phylogeny from a mega‐tree containing 74,533 vascular plant species and we calculated Pagel's λ to assess the phylogenetic signal in plant traits and fruit size. Phylogenetic generalized linear mixed model (PGLMM) was used to reveal relationships between fruit size and plant traits as well as the body mass of interacting frugivores. We used phylogenetic partial R2s regression model to tease apart the effects of body mass of frugivores, leaf area, plant height and plant phylogeny on the evolution of fruit size.ResultsWe show that the global variation in fruit width is better explained by frugivorous assemblages than by phylogeny and plant functional traits (leaf area and plant height). Despite the significant evolutionary correlation between fruit length and width, fruit length appears to be more phylogenetically constrained and less sensitive to frugivore‐driven selection than fruit width.Main ConclusionIn light of the two original hypotheses, our study demonstrates a global phylogenetic constraint on fruit length and frugivore‐driven selection on fruit width, provides a novel mechanistic explanation for the evolution of fruit size across fleshy‐fruited plant species. Our findings contribute to a deeper understanding of the complex interplay between frugivory, phylogeny and plant traits in the evolution of fruit size, offering valuable insights into the broader context of published findings and hypotheses in this field.

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FunAndes – A functional trait database of Andean plants

Cited by 16 publications

References 29 publications

A global assessment of the Raunkiæran shortfall in plants: geographic biases in our knowledge of plant traits

A global assessment of the Raunkiæran shortfall in plants: geographic biases in our knowledge of plant traits

Rasgos‐CL: A functional trait database of Chilean woody plants

Contrasting effects of frugivore assemblages and phylogeny on global variation in fruit length and width

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