RT Journal Article
T1 FunAndes – A functional trait database of Andean plants
A1 Báez, Selene
A1 Cayuela, Luis
A1 Macía, Manuel
A1 Álvarez Dávila, Esteban
A1 Apaza Quevedo, Amira
A1 Arnelas Seco, Itziar
A1 Baca Cortes, Natalia
A1 Bañares de Dios, Guillermo
A1 Bauters, Marijn
A1 Ben Saadi, Celina
A1 Blundo, Cecilia
A1 Cabrera, Marian
A1 Castaño, Felipe
A1 Cayola, Leslie
A1 De Aledo, Julia
A1 Espinosa, Carlos Iván
A1 Fadrique, Belén
A1 Farfán Rios, William
A1 Fuentes, Alfredo
A1 Garnica Díaz, Claudia
A1 González, Mailyn
A1 González, Diego
A1 Hensen, Isabell
A1 Hurtado, Ana Belén
A1 Jadán, Oswaldo
A1 Lippok, Denis
A1 Loza, Isabel
A1 Maldonado, Carla
A1 Malizia, Lucio
A1 Matas Granados, Laura
A1 Myers, Jonathan
A1 Norden, Natalia
A1 Oliveras Menor, Imma
A1 Pierick, Kerstin
A1 Ramírez Angulo, Hirma
A1 Salgado Negret, Beatriz
A1 Schleuning, Matthias
A1 Silman, Miles
A1 Solarte Cruz, María Elena
A1 Tello, Sebastián
A1 Verbeeck, Hans
A1 Vilanova, Emilio
A1 Weithmann, Greta
A1 Homeier, Jürgen
AB 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.
PB Nature Research
SN 2052-4463
YR 2022
FD 2022
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/95221
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/95221
LA eng
NO Báez, S., Cayuela, L., Macía, M.J. et al. FunAndes – A functional trait database of Andean plants. Sci Data 9, 511 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-022-01626-6
NO This work was possible thanks to funding from the Living Earth Collaborative (LEC) at Washington University in St. Louis, for the working group ‘A synthesis of patterns and mechanisms of diversity and forest change in the Andes: A global biodiversity hotspot’ (organized by JST, JAM, and SB), and by the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), for the working group ‘sAndes: Tree diversity, composition and carbon storage in Andean tropical montane forests’ (organized by LC and MJM). The authors are grateful to Jens Kattge for making available the TRY data presented in this paper. AA-Q thanks the Herbario Nacional de Bolivia, the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and DFG for funding (HE3041/20-1); to Ricardo Sonco and Marcelo Reguerin, Arely Palabral, Heike Heklau, and the Chulumani community. SB thanks the financial support of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation through a Georg Foster Fellowship; SB, MB and HV acknowledge VLIR-UOS grants COFOREC (EC2018SIN223A103) and COFOREC II (EC2020SIN279A103). GBD was funded through a PhD grant by the Spanish Ministry of Education (MINEDU; FPU14/05303) and is indebted to Alex Nina, Jorge Armijos, Gonzalo Bañares, José Sánchez, Ángel Delso, Anselmo Vergaray, “Rosho” Tamayo, Reynerio Ishuiza, and national parks rangers for assistance in the field. CB thanks CONICET, Argentina, for a Doctoral Scholarship. LC and MJM were partly funded through projects CGL2013-45634-P, CGL2015-72431-EXP, CGL2016-75414-P, PID2019-105064GB-I00, and S2018/EMT-4 338. JGA and CBS acknowledge Luis Torres, Mara Paneghel, Iñigo Gómez, Maaike Pyck, Manuel Marca, Daniel Irygoin, Piher Maceda and Pontificia Universidad Católica de Perú (PUCP). JH thanks DFG (projects HO3296/2, HO3296/4, HO3296/6) and the Erasmus Go International Plus Program for funding and Katherine Angulo-Schipper, Michel Edelmann, Julius Joosten, Julia Falk, Roman Link, Johanna Lindemann, Stephanie Lorenz, Phillip Obst, Jaime Peña, Bernhard Schuldt, Julia Siegel and Sebastian Wagner for field and lab assistance. OJ thanks the Vicerrectorado de Investigación de la Universidad de Cuenca, Ecuador. NN thanks the support of Instituto Alexander von Humboldt, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Programa de Bosques Andinos and Jardín Botánico de Bogotá. BS-N, CG-D, SS, RL-C acknowledge the support of Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt for financing the project, to the research group Biodiversidad de Alta Montaña (BAM) and William Ariza, Christian Beltran, Camilo Dumar, Janis Morales, Andrés Otalora, and Abelardo Rodriguez-Bolaños. BC-N, CM, SC-M acknowledge the financial and technical support of the Instituto Alexander von Humboldt to obtain the plant trait data. JST and JAM acknowledge the support of the National Science Foundation (DEB 0101775, DEB 0743457, DEB 1836353); the National Geographic Society (NGS 7754-04 and NGS 8047-06); the International Center for Advanced Renewable Energy and Sustainability (I-CARES) at Washington University in St. Louis; the Taylor and Davidson families; Dirección General de Biodiversidad, the Bolivian Park Service (SERNAP). EV thanks the Corkery Family Fund and the Center for Sustainable Forestry at Pack Forest, both from University of Washington, USA for funding support during his PhD program, and the financial support from the ‘Bosques Andinos’ Initiative (http://www.bosquesandinos.org/) that was important for the collection of trait data at San Eusebio. Data collection in Peru was supported by NSF LTREB DEB 1754647, the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation’s Andes to Amazon initiative, and RAINFOR. We thank the Open Access Publication Funds of University of Göttingen.
NO Washington University (St. Louis, USA)
NO German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research
NO Herbario Nacional de Bolivia
NO The German Academic Exchange Service
NO German Research Foundation
NO Ghent University
NO Ministerio de Educación (España)
NO Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (Argentina)
NO Universidad Católica de Perú
NO Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
NO Universidad de Cuenca (Ecuador)
NO Ministerio de Medio Ambiente y Agua (Bolivia)
NO University of Göttingen
DS Docta Complutense
RD 20 abr 2025