MelastomaTRAITs 1.0: A database of functional traits in Melastomataceae, a large pantropical angiosperm family.

Autor: Reginato M; Departamento de Botânica, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, Brazil., Ordónez-Parra CA; Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biologia Vegetal, Departamento de Biologia Vegetal, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), Belo Horizonte, Brazil.; Centro de Síntese Ecológica e Conservação, Departamento de Ecologia, Genética e Evolução, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), Belo Horizonte, Brazil., Messeder JVS; Biology Department and Ecology Program, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA., Brito VLG; Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Federal de Uberlândia (UFU), Uberlândia, Brazil., Dellinger A; Department of Botany and Biodiversity Research, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria., Kriebel R; Department of Botany, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, California, USA., Marra C; Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Federal de Uberlândia (UFU), Uberlândia, Brazil., Melo L; Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Federal de Uberlândia (UFU), Uberlândia, Brazil., Cornelissen T; Centro de Síntese Ecológica e Conservação, Departamento de Ecologia, Genética e Evolução, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), Belo Horizonte, Brazil., Fuzessy L; CREAF, Bellaterra (Cerdanyola del Vallès), Barcelona, Spain.; Departamento de Biodiversidade, Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho (UNESP), Rio Claro, Brazil., Sperotto P; Departamento de Botânica, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, Brazil., Calderón-Hernández M; Laboratorio Nacional de Semillas, Instituto Colombiano Agropecuario, Bogotá, Colombia., Guerra TJ; Museu de Ciências Naturais da PUC Minas, Belo Horizonte, Brazil., Kopper C; Department of Botany and Biodiversity Research, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria., Mancipe-Murillo C; Independent Researcher, Bogotá, Colombia., Pizo MA; Departamento de Biodiversidade, Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho (UNESP), Rio Claro, Brazil., Posada-Herrera JM; Herbario de la Universidad de Caldas, Universidad de Caldas, Manizales, Colombia., Hasui É; Instituto de Ciências da Natureza, Universidade Federal de Alfenas (UNIFAL), Alfenas, Brazil., Silva WR; Departamento de Biologia Animal, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, (UNICAMP), Campinas, Brazil., Silveira FAO; Centro de Síntese Ecológica e Conservação, Departamento de Ecologia, Genética e Evolução, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Ecology [Ecology] 2024 Jun; Vol. 105 (6), pp. e4308. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Apr 17.
DOI: 10.1002/ecy.4308
Abstrakt: The recent availability of open-access repositories of functional traits has revolutionized trait-based approaches in ecology and evolution. Nevertheless, the underrepresentation of tropical regions and lineages remains a pervasive bias in plant functional trait databases, which constrains large-scale assessments of plant ecology, evolution, and biogeography. Here, we present MelastomaTRAITs 1.0, a comprehensive and updatable database of functional traits for the pantropical Melastomataceae, the ninth-largest angiosperm family with 177 genera and more than 5800 species. Melastomataceae encompass species with a wide diversity of growth forms (herbs, shrubs, trees, epiphytes, and woody climbers), habitats (including tropical forests, savannas, grasslands, and wetlands from sea level to montane areas above the treeline), ecological strategies (from pioneer, edge-adapted and invasive species to shade-tolerant understory species), geographic distribution (from microendemic to continental-wide distribution), reproductive, pollination, and seed dispersal systems. MelastomaTRAITs builds on 581 references, such as taxonomic monographs, ecological research, and unpublished data, and includes four whole-plant traits, six leaf traits, 11 flower traits, 18 fruit traits, and 27 seed traits for 2520 species distributed in 144 genera across all 21 tribes. Most data come from the Neotropics where the family is most species-rich. Miconieae (the largest tribe) contains the highest number of trait records (49.6%) and species (41.1%) records. The trait types with the most information in the database were whole-plant traits, flowers, and leaf traits. With the breadth of functional traits recorded, our database helps to fill a gap in information for tropical plants and will significantly improve our capacity for large-scale trait-based syntheses across levels of organization, plant-animal interactions, regeneration ecology, and thereby support conservation and restoration programs. There are no copyright restrictions on the dataset; please cite this data paper when reusing the data.
(© 2024 The Ecological Society of America.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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