AusTraits: a curated plant trait database for the Australian flora

AusTraits is a transformative database, containing measurements on the traits of Australia's plant species, standardised from hundreds of disconnected primary sources. So far, data have been assembled from 139 distinct sources, describing more than 80 plant traits and over 19k species. A full list of sources is provided below. To handle the harmonising of diverse data sources, we use a reproducible workflow to implement the various changes required for each source to reformat it suitable for incorporation in AusTraits. Such changes include restructuring datasets, renaming variables, changing variable units, changing taxon names. While this repository contains the harmonised data, the raw data and code used to build the resource will also be made available, Contributors The project is jointly led by Dr Daniel Falster (University of New South Wales, Sydney) and Dr Rachael Gallagher (Macquarie University), with input from 127 contributors from over 59 institutions. The following people and institutions have have contributed to building this resource. Data contributors (individuals) : Mark Adams, Tara Angevin, Anthony Bean, Biloni, Chris Blackman, Eleanor Bolza, David Bowman, Jason Bragg, Amber Briggs, John Brock, Jeff Burley, Geoff Burrows, Don Butler, Carter, Jane A. Catford, Gregory Chandler, Alex Chapman, Si-Chong Chen, Nguyen Ngoc Chinh, Robert Chinnock, David Christophel, Martin Chudnoff, Peter Clarke, Harold Trevor Clifford, Wendy Cooper, William Cooper, Ian Cowie, Lyn Craven, Michael Crisp, Erika Cross, Saul Cunningham, Ian Davidson, Matthew Denton, Desch, Dimitri, David Duncan, Marco Duretto, John M. Dwyer, Derek Eamus, Rebel Elick, John Evans, James Flynn, Carlos Fonseca, Paul Irwin Forster, Sean Gleason, Ethel Goble-Garratt, Goldsmith, Bruce Gray, Caroline Gross, Peter Grubb, Matthew Harrison, Foteini Hassiotou, Heady, Martin Henery, Lesley Hughes, Kate Hughes, John Huisman, Bernie Hyland, Muhammad Islam, Greg Jordan, Enrique Jurado, Greg Keighery, Juergen Kellerman, Kirsten Knox, Robert Kooyman, Etienne Laliberte, Hans Lambers, Byron Lamont, Daniel C. Laughlin, Michael Lawes, Emma Laxton, Caroline Lehmann, Michelle Leishman, Brendan Lepschi, Margaret Lewington, Janice Lord, Ian Lunt, Christopher Lusk, Anthony Manea, Neville Marchant, Abdurahim Martawijaya, Bruce Maslin, Robert Mason, James McCarthy, Daniel Metcalfe, Angela Moles, John Morgan, Huw Morgan, Andrew O'Reilly-Nugent, Grazyna Paczkowska, Paula Peeters, Burak Pekin, Lynda Prior, Jenny Read