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FAIRTraits: an enriched, FAIR-compliant database of plant traits from Mediterranean populations of 240 species

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FAIRTraits compiles and standardizes plant trait data collected over the 1997-2023 period on six sites by the same research group, ensuring that a consistent methology was followed.

Description

These data were obtained on individuals from 1,955 populations of 240 species belonging to 155 genera and 48 families (172 herbaceous and 39 woody species). FAIRTraits contains 189,452 records for 183 quantitative traits from the different plant organs (leaves, stems, roots, and reproductive parts), which have been grouped into 10 categories: allocation ratio, architecture, chemistry, dynamics, mechanics, microbial associations, morphology, phenology, physiology and plant size.

Trait values are given at the level of individual measurements. The complete FAIRTraits database in composed of six other files. One is available at GBIF as a separate Darwin Core "Checklist" archive: (1) FAIRTraits_Taxon, which gives further details on taxa; The other five are available in the InDoRES repository, as .csv files.

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These are: (2) FAIRTraits_MeteoSitesMonth.csv, which gives data on monthly averages of meteorological variables from the meteorological stations closest to the six sites; (3) FAIRTraits_MeteoSitesYear.csv, which gives data on yearly averages of meteorological variables from the meteorological stations closest to the six sites; (4) FAIRTraits_EnvironmentalPlots.csv, which gives information on georeferencing, treatments, type of soils and soil properties of plots in which environmental data were collected; (5) FAIRTraits_DescriptionEnvVariables.csv, which gives a description of variables, methods and items found in files FAIRTraits_MeteoSitesMonth.csv, FAIRTraits_MeteoSitesYear.csv and FAIRTraits_EnvironmentalPlots.csv (6) FAIRTraits_PublishedPapers.csv, which gives a list of scientific articles in which subsets of the database have been used.

A data paper submitted to the "Ecology" journal describes the database in detail.

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