A solution to the challenges of interdisciplinary aggregation and use of specimen-level trait data.

ABSTRACT: Understanding variation of traits within and among species through time and across space is central to many questions in biology. Many resources assemble species-level trait data, but the data and metadata underlying those trait measurements are often not reported. Here, we introduce FuTRES (Functional Trait Resource for Environmental Studies; pronounced few-tress), an online datastore and community resource for individual-level trait reporting that utilizes a semantic framework. FuTRES already stores millions of trait measurements for paleobiological, zooarchaeological, and modern specimens, with a current focus on mammals. We compare dynamically derived extant mammal species' body size measurements in FuTRES with summary values from other compilations, highlighting potential issues with

SUBMITTER: Balk MA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9535407 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature