Tundra Trait Team: A database of plant traits spanning the tundra biome

Anne D. Bjorkman; Isla H. Myers-Smith; Sarah C. Elmendorf; Signe Normand; Haydn J.D. Thomas; Juha M. Alatalo; Heather Alexander; Alba Anadon-Rosell; Sandra Angers-Blondin; Yang Bai; Gaurav Baruah; Mariska te Beest; Logan Berner; Robert G. Björk; Daan Blok; Helge Bruelheide; Agata Buchwal; Allan Buras; Michele Carbognani; Katherine Christie; Laura S. Collier; Elisabeth J. Cooper; J. Hans C. Cornelissen; Katharine J.M. Dickinson; Stefan Dullinger; Bo Elberling; Anu Eskelinen; Bruce C. Forbes; Esther R. Frei; Maitane Iturrate-Garcia; Megan K. Good; Oriol Grau; Peter Green; Michelle Greve; Paul Grogan; Sylvia Haider; Tomáš Hájek; Martin Hallinger; Konsta Happonen; Karen A. Harper; Monique M.P.D. Heijmans; Gregory H.R. Henry; Luise Hermanutz; Rebecca E. Hewitt; Robert D. Hollister; James Hudson; Karl Hülber; Colleen M. Iversen; Francesca Jaroszynska; Borja Jiménez-Alfaro; Jill Johnstone; Rasmus Halfdan Jorgensen; Elina Kaarlejärvi; Rebecca Klady; Jitka Klimešová; Annika Korsten; Sara Kuleza; Aino Kulonen; Laurent J. Lamarque; Trevor Lantz; Amanda Lavalle; Jonas J. Lembrechts; Esther Lévesque; Chelsea J. Little; Miska Luoto; Petr Macek; Michelle C. Mack; Rabia Mathakutha; Anders Michelsen; Ann Milbau; Ulf Molau; John W. Morgan; Martin Alfons Mörsdorf; Jacob Nabe-Nielsen; Sigrid Schøler Nielsen; Josep M. Ninot; Steven F. Oberbauer; Johan Olofsson; Vladimir G. Onipchenko; Alessandro Petraglia; Catherine Pickering; Janet S. Prevéy; Christian Rixen; Sabine B. Rumpf; Gabriela Schaepman-Strub; Philipp Semenchuk; Rohan Shetti; Nadejda A. Soudzilovskaia; Marko J. Spasojevic; James David Mervyn Speed; Lorna E. Street; Katharine Suding; Ken D. Tape; Marcello Tomaselli; Andrew Trant; Urs A. Treier; Jean Pierre Tremblay; Maxime Tremblay; Susanna Venn; Anna Maria Virkkala; Tage Vowles; Stef Weijers; Martin Wilmking; Sonja Wipf; Tara Zamin

doi:10.1111/geb.12821

Tundra Trait Team: A database of plant traits spanning the tundra biome

Anne D. Bjorkman, Isla H. Myers-Smith, Sarah C. Elmendorf, Signe Normand, Haydn J.D. Thomas, Juha M. Alatalo, Heather Alexander, Alba Anadon-Rosell, Sandra Angers-Blondin, Yang Bai, Gaurav Baruah, Mariska te Beest, Logan Berner, Robert G. Björk, Daan Blok, Helge Bruelheide, Agata Buchwal, Allan Buras, Michele Carbognani, Katherine ChristieLaura S. Collier, Elisabeth J. Cooper, J. Hans C. Cornelissen, Katharine J.M. Dickinson, Stefan Dullinger, Bo Elberling, Anu Eskelinen, Bruce C. Forbes, Esther R. Frei, Maitane Iturrate-Garcia, Megan K. Good, Oriol Grau, Peter Green, Michelle Greve, Paul Grogan, Sylvia Haider, Tomáš Hájek, Martin Hallinger, Konsta Happonen, Karen A. Harper, Monique M.P.D. Heijmans, Gregory H.R. Henry, Luise Hermanutz, Rebecca E. Hewitt, Robert D. Hollister, James Hudson, Karl Hülber, Colleen M. Iversen, Francesca Jaroszynska, Borja Jiménez-Alfaro, Jill Johnstone, Rasmus Halfdan Jorgensen, Elina Kaarlejärvi, Rebecca Klady, Jitka Klimešová, Annika Korsten, Sara Kuleza, Aino Kulonen, Laurent J. Lamarque, Trevor Lantz, Amanda Lavalle, Jonas J. Lembrechts, Esther Lévesque, Chelsea J. Little, Miska Luoto, Petr Macek, Michelle C. Mack, Rabia Mathakutha, Anders Michelsen, Ann Milbau, Ulf Molau, John W. Morgan, Martin Alfons Mörsdorf, Jacob Nabe-Nielsen, Sigrid Schøler Nielsen, Josep M. Ninot, Steven F. Oberbauer, Johan Olofsson, Vladimir G. Onipchenko, Alessandro Petraglia, Catherine Pickering, Janet S. Prevéy, Christian Rixen, Sabine B. Rumpf, Gabriela Schaepman-Strub, Philipp Semenchuk, Rohan Shetti, Nadejda A. Soudzilovskaia, Marko J. Spasojevic, James David Mervyn Speed, Lorna E. Street, Katharine Suding, Ken D. Tape, Marcello Tomaselli, Andrew Trant, Urs A. Treier, Jean Pierre Tremblay, Maxime Tremblay, Susanna Venn, Anna Maria Virkkala, Tage Vowles, Stef Weijers, Martin Wilmking, Sonja Wipf, Tara Zamin

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Abstract

Motivation: The Tundra Trait Team (TTT) database includes field-based measurements of key traits related to plant form and function at multiple sites across the tundra biome. This dataset can be used to address theoretical questions about plant strategy and trade-offs, trait–environment relationships and environmental filtering, and trait variation across spatial scales, to validate satellite data, and to inform Earth system model parameters. Main types of variable contained: The database contains 91,970 measurements of 18 plant traits. The most frequently measured traits (> 1,000 observations each) include plant height, leaf area, specific leaf area, leaf fresh and dry mass, leaf dry matter content, leaf nitrogen, carbon and phosphorus content, leaf C:N and N:P, seed mass, and stem specific density. Spatial location and grain: Measurements were collected in tundra habitats in both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres, including Arctic sites in Alaska, Canada, Greenland, Fennoscandia and Siberia, alpine sites in the European Alps, Colorado Rockies, Caucasus, Ural Mountains, Pyrenees, Australian Alps, and Central Otago Mountains (New Zealand), and sub-Antarctic Marion Island. More than 99% of observations are georeferenced. Time period and grain: All data were collected between 1964 and 2018. A small number of sites have repeated trait measurements at two or more time periods. Major taxa and level of measurement: Trait measurements were made on 978 terrestrial vascular plant species growing in tundra habitats. Most observations are on individuals (86%), while the remainder represent plot or site means or maximums per species. Software format: csv file and GitHub repository with data cleaning scripts in R; contribution to TRY plant trait database (www.try-db.org) to be included in the next version release.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1402-1411
Number of pages	10
Journal	Global Ecology and Biogeography
Volume	27
Issue number	12
Early online date	22 Oct 2018
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.12821
Publication status	Published - Dec 2018

Funding

This paper is an outcome of the sTundra working group supported by sDiv, the Synthesis Centre of the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle‐Jena‐Leipzig (DFG FZT 118). ADB was supported by an iDiv postdoctoral fellowship and The Danish Council for Independent Research ‐ Natural Sciences (DFF 4181‐00565 to SN). ADB, IHM‐S, HJDT and SAB were funded by the UK Natural Environment Research Council (ShrubTundra Project NE/M016323/1 to IHM‐S) and SN by the Villum Foundation’s Young Grant/Award Number: 2015‐00465 and 2015‐ 00498; Russian Science Foundation, Grant/ Award Number: 14‐50‐00029; Swiss National Science Foundation, Grant/Award Number: 155554; Carlsberg Foundation, Grant/Award Number: 2013‐01‐ 0825; Research Council of Norway, Grant/ Award Number: 262064; Academy of Finland, Grant/Award Number: 253385 and 297191; U.S. National Science Foundation, Grant/ Award Number: 1504312; U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service; U.S. Department of Energy; Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada; ArcticNet; Aarhus University; University of Zurich; Research Foundation Flanders; Marie Skłodowska Curie Actions co‐funding, Grant/Award Number: INCA 600398; EU‐F7P INTERACT, Grant/ Award Number: 262693; MOBILITY PLUS, Grant/Award Number: 1072/MOB/2013/0; Spanish OAPN, Grant/Award Number: 534S/2012; Czech Science Foundation, Grant/ Award Number: 17‐20839S and MSMT LM2015078; South African National Research Fund SANAP, Grant/Award Number: 110734; Danish National Research Foundation, Grant/ Award Number: CENPERM DNRF100; Carl Tryggers stiftelse fD?r vetenskaplig forskning Investigator Programme (VKR023456). HJDT was also funded by a NERC doctoral training partnership grant (NE/L002558/1). DB was supported by The Swedish Research Council (2015‐00465) and Marie Skłodowska Curie Actions co‐funding (INCA 600398). RDH was supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation. JSP was supported by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. AB was sup‐ ported by EU‐F7P INTERACT (262693) and MOBILITY PLUS (1072/ MOB/2013/0). CMI was supported by the Office of Biological and Environmental Research in the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science as part of the Next‐Generation Ecosystem Experiments in the Arctic (NGEE Arctic) project. JJ, PG, GHRH, KAH, LSC and TZ were supported by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada. GHRH, LSC and LH were supported by ArcticNet. GHRH, and LSC were also supported by the Northern Scientific Training Program. GHRH was additionally supported by the Polar Continental Shelf Program. JN‐N was supported by the Arctic Research Centre, Aarhus University. AAR, OG and JMN were supported by the Spanish OAPN (project 534S/2012) and European INTERACT project (262693 Transnational Access). GS‐S and MI‐G were supported by the University of Zurich Research Priority Program on Global Change and Biodiversity. VGO was supported by the Russian Science Foundation (#14‐50‐00029). ERF was sup‐ ported by the Swiss National Science Foundation (#155554). SSN was supported by the Carlsberg Foundation (2013‐01‐0825), The Danish Council for Independent Research ‐ Natural Sciences (DFF 4181‐00565) and the Villum Foundation (VKR023456). JDMS was supported by the Research Council of Norway (262064). JMA was supported by the Carl Tryggers stiftelse fD?r vetenskaplig fors‐kn ing. AE was supported by the Academy of Finland (projects 253385 and 297191). PM and TH were supported by the Czech Science Foundation 17‐20839S and MSMT LM2015078. MG and RM were supported by the South African National Research Fund SANAP Grant 110734. REH and MCM were supported by the National Science Foundation (award #1504312). JJL received funding from the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO) through a personal grant. EK was supported by Swedish Research Council (2015‐00498). BE and A Michelsen were supported by the Danish National Research Foundation (CENPERM DNRF100). HB, SH and BJA thank all partici‐ pants in the 2016 and 2018 field ecology course of the Geobotany group at Martin Luther University Halle‐Wittenberg. We acknowl‐ edge the contributions of Steven Mamet, Mélanie Jean, Kirsten Allen, Nathan Young, Jenny Lowe, and many others to trait data Natural Environment Research Council, Grant/Award Number: NE/M016323/1 and NE/L002558/1; Danish Council for Independent Research, Grant/Award Number: DFF 4181‐00565; Villum Foundation, Grant/Award Number: VKR023456; Swedish Research Council, This paper is an outcome of the sTundra working group supported by sDiv, the Synthesis Centre of the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig (DFG FZT 118). ADB was supported by an iDiv postdoctoral fellowship and The Danish Council for Independent Research - Natural Sciences (DFF 4181-00565 to SN). ADB, IHM-S, HJDT and SAB were funded by the UK Natural Environment Research Council (ShrubTundra Project NE/M016323/1 to IHM-S) and SN by the Villum Foundation?s Young Investigator Programme (VKR023456). HJDT was also funded by a NERC doctoral training partnership grant (NE/L002558/1). DB was supported by The Swedish Research Council (2015-00465) and Marie Sk?odowska Curie Actions co-funding (INCA 600398). RDH was supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation. JSP was supported by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. AB was supported by EU-F7P INTERACT (262693) and MOBILITY PLUS (1072/MOB/2013/0). CMI was supported by the Office of Biological and Environmental Research in the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science as part of the Next-Generation Ecosystem Experiments in the Arctic (NGEE Arctic) project. JJ, PG, GHRH, KAH, LSC and TZ were supported by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada. GHRH, LSC and LH were supported by ArcticNet. GHRH, and LSC were also supported by the Northern Scientific Training Program. GHRH was additionally supported by the Polar Continental Shelf Program. JN-N was supported by the Arctic Research Centre, Aarhus University. AAR, OG and JMN were supported by the Spanish OAPN (project 534S/2012) and European INTERACT project (262693 Transnational Access). GS-S and MI-G were supported by the University of Zurich Research Priority Program on Global Change and Biodiversity. VGO was supported by the Russian Science Foundation (#14-50-00029). ERF was supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation (#155554). SSN was supported by the Carlsberg Foundation (2013-01-0825), The Danish Council for Independent Research - Natural Sciences (DFF 4181-00565) and the Villum Foundation (VKR023456). JDMS was supported by the Research Council of Norway (262064). JMA was supported by the Carl Tryggers stiftelse f?r vetenskaplig forskning. AE was supported by the Academy of Finland (projects 253385 and 297191). PM and TH were supported by the Czech Science Foundation 17-20839S and MSMT LM2015078. MG and RM were supported by the South African National Research Fund SANAP Grant 110734. REH and MCM were supported by the National Science Foundation (award #1504312). JJL received funding from the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO) through a personal grant. EK was supported by Swedish Research Council (2015-00498). BE and A Michelsen were supported by the Danish National Research Foundation (CENPERM DNRF100). HB, SH and BJA thank all participants in the 2016 and 2018 field ecology course of the Geobotany group at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg. We acknowledge the contributions of Steven Mamet, M?lanie Jean, Kirsten Allen, Nathan Young, Jenny Lowe, and many others to trait data collection, and thank the governments, parks, field stations, and local and indigenous people for the opportunity to conduct research on their land.

Funders	Funder number
Arctic Research Centre
CENPERM	DNRF100
EU-F7P INTERACT
National Research Fund SANAP	110734
OAPN
Office of Biological and Environmental Research
South African National Research Fund
Synthesis Centre of the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research
Synthesis Centre of the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig
U.S. National Science Foundation
UK Natural Environment Research Council
Villum Foundation?s
Villum Foundation’s Young
National Science Foundation	1504312, 1637686
U.S. Department of Energy
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Office of Science
Aarhus Universitet
Natur og Univers, Det Frie Forskningsråd	DFF 4181‐00565
Villum Fonden	VKR023456
Seventh Framework Programme	262693
Dorrance Family Foundation	4181‐00565
Organismo Autónomo de Parques Nacionales	534S/2012
ArcticNet
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
Natural Environment Research Council	NE/L002558/1, NE/M016323/1
National Eye Research Centre
Marie Curie	1072/MOB/2013/0
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft	FZT 118
Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung	155554
Danmarks Grundforskningsfond	CENPERM DNRF100
Grantová Agentura České Republiky	MSMT LM2015078, 17‐20839S
Academy of Finland	253385, 297191
Carl Tryggers Stiftelse för Vetenskaplig Forskning
Carlsbergfondet	2013‐01‐0825
Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek	2015‐00498
Vetenskapsrådet	2015‐00465, INCA 600398
Norges forskningsråd	262064
Universität Zürich
Russian Science Foundation	14‐50‐00029
iDiv	DFG FZT 118

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alpine
Arctic
plant functional traits
tundra

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Bjorkman, A. D., Myers-Smith, I. H., Elmendorf, S. C., Normand, S., Thomas, H. J. D., Alatalo, J. M., Alexander, H., Anadon-Rosell, A., Angers-Blondin, S., Bai, Y., Baruah, G., te Beest, M., Berner, L., Björk, R. G., Blok, D., Bruelheide, H., Buchwal, A., Buras, A., Carbognani, M., ... Zamin, T. (2018). Tundra Trait Team: A database of plant traits spanning the tundra biome. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 27(12), 1402-1411. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.12821

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PY - 2018/12

Y1 - 2018/12

N2 - Motivation: The Tundra Trait Team (TTT) database includes field-based measurements of key traits related to plant form and function at multiple sites across the tundra biome. This dataset can be used to address theoretical questions about plant strategy and trade-offs, trait–environment relationships and environmental filtering, and trait variation across spatial scales, to validate satellite data, and to inform Earth system model parameters. Main types of variable contained: The database contains 91,970 measurements of 18 plant traits. The most frequently measured traits (> 1,000 observations each) include plant height, leaf area, specific leaf area, leaf fresh and dry mass, leaf dry matter content, leaf nitrogen, carbon and phosphorus content, leaf C:N and N:P, seed mass, and stem specific density. Spatial location and grain: Measurements were collected in tundra habitats in both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres, including Arctic sites in Alaska, Canada, Greenland, Fennoscandia and Siberia, alpine sites in the European Alps, Colorado Rockies, Caucasus, Ural Mountains, Pyrenees, Australian Alps, and Central Otago Mountains (New Zealand), and sub-Antarctic Marion Island. More than 99% of observations are georeferenced. Time period and grain: All data were collected between 1964 and 2018. A small number of sites have repeated trait measurements at two or more time periods. Major taxa and level of measurement: Trait measurements were made on 978 terrestrial vascular plant species growing in tundra habitats. Most observations are on individuals (86%), while the remainder represent plot or site means or maximums per species. Software format: csv file and GitHub repository with data cleaning scripts in R; contribution to TRY plant trait database (www.try-db.org) to be included in the next version release.

AB - Motivation: The Tundra Trait Team (TTT) database includes field-based measurements of key traits related to plant form and function at multiple sites across the tundra biome. This dataset can be used to address theoretical questions about plant strategy and trade-offs, trait–environment relationships and environmental filtering, and trait variation across spatial scales, to validate satellite data, and to inform Earth system model parameters. Main types of variable contained: The database contains 91,970 measurements of 18 plant traits. The most frequently measured traits (> 1,000 observations each) include plant height, leaf area, specific leaf area, leaf fresh and dry mass, leaf dry matter content, leaf nitrogen, carbon and phosphorus content, leaf C:N and N:P, seed mass, and stem specific density. Spatial location and grain: Measurements were collected in tundra habitats in both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres, including Arctic sites in Alaska, Canada, Greenland, Fennoscandia and Siberia, alpine sites in the European Alps, Colorado Rockies, Caucasus, Ural Mountains, Pyrenees, Australian Alps, and Central Otago Mountains (New Zealand), and sub-Antarctic Marion Island. More than 99% of observations are georeferenced. Time period and grain: All data were collected between 1964 and 2018. A small number of sites have repeated trait measurements at two or more time periods. Major taxa and level of measurement: Trait measurements were made on 978 terrestrial vascular plant species growing in tundra habitats. Most observations are on individuals (86%), while the remainder represent plot or site means or maximums per species. Software format: csv file and GitHub repository with data cleaning scripts in R; contribution to TRY plant trait database (www.try-db.org) to be included in the next version release.

KW - alpine

KW - Arctic

KW - plant functional traits

KW - tundra

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U2 - 10.1111/geb.12821

DO - 10.1111/geb.12821

M3 - Article

AN - SCOPUS:85054328144

SN - 1466-822X

VL - 27

SP - 1402

EP - 1411

JO - Global Ecology and Biogeography

JF - Global Ecology and Biogeography

IS - 12

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Tundra Trait Team: A database of plant traits spanning the tundra biome

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