Promoting open Science for global trait based ecology and biology.
Joined August 2018
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OpenTraits retweeted
29 Jun 2025
CactEcoDB: Trait, spatial, environmental, phylogenetic and diversification data for the cactus family biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/… #biorxiv_evobio
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A new #OpenScience #plant #seed #trait dataset for the flora of #China is now available! The paper was led by Hao-Yu Wang and is available at: doi.org/10.1111/nph.70296
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OpenTraits retweeted
29 Oct 2024
New in @Ecology_Letters: Acclimation unifies the scaling of carbon assimilation across climate gradients and levels of organisation (shorturl.at/fhsVs) - Exciting work by #MichaletzLab PhD graduate #JosefGaren @UBCBotany @UBCBiodiversity @ZoologyUBC @BiologyUBC @ubcscience
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OpenTraits retweeted
7 Aug 2024
Excited to share some #MichaletzLab talks at the #ESA2024 annual meeting in #TheLBC! We hope you can attend and hear about our current work!
@MilosSimovic12
@UBCBiodiversity
@UBCBotany
@ZoologyUBC
@BiologyUBC
@ubcscience
@ESA_org
@ESA_Phys
@ESAhistory
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OpenTraits retweeted
5 May 2024
Bad data is a problem, especially when it informs decisions & is seen as reliable and standardised. We decided that we would look into what informs the IUCN assessments, given that they are the main species indicator for the global biodiversity framework.
doi.org/10.32942/X2KK7D
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OpenTraits retweeted
1 May 2024
What a nice and useful platform to look for #traits datasets!📏😮
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29 Apr 2024
Looking for animal trait data? The new ZooTraits shiny app helps you find datasets that might be of interest!
The app is available here:
ecofun.shinyapps.io/zootrait…
And the publication is available here:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
#OpenScience #FunctionalTraits @TraitsOpen
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29 Apr 2024
Looking for animal trait data? The new ZooTraits shiny app helps you find datasets that might be of interest!
The app is available here:
ecofun.shinyapps.io/zootrait…
And the publication is available here:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
#OpenScience #FunctionalTraits @TraitsOpen
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OpenTraits retweeted
20 Sep 2023
Thrilled to share Rasgos-CL, an open trait database with data for 662 woody species in Chile: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/… @AnidInforma @DataObsCL @GEB_macro @Open_Traits @TraitsOpen
@BESMacroecol @akmacroecology @EcoEvoLatam 1/n
ALT Here's the URL: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/geb.13755
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OpenTraits retweeted
9 Sep 2023
Our new paper showing that bootstrapping outperforms community-weighted approaches when estimating trait distributions is out at @MethodsEcolEvol ! By embracing variation, we get closer to the true community distribution and metrics. doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.14…
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OpenTraits retweeted
21 Jul 2023
How can we collect large datasets of plant functional traits? Here’s a time lapse of taking one plant through the @BtwnTheFjords and @PFTCourses trait wheel, an efficient system that can be scaled to process thousands of leaves.
#IAmABotanist #ecophysiology
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OpenTraits retweeted
28 Jun 2023
A global assessment of the Raunkiæran shortfall in #plants: geographic biases in our knowledge of plant #traits - check our new analysis @NewPhyt, led by @BrianMaitner w/ @w_eiserhardt & great team doi.org/10.1111/nph.18999 ☘️🌿🌲🪻🍀🌵🌍🌎🌏 #macroecology #ecology
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OpenTraits retweeted
3 Jun 2023
We are excited to announce a new trait database for ecologists: MOSAIC traits, leveraging the full power of @comadreDB, @compadreDB, and @PadrinoDB. Read about us in Nature Scientific Data: nature.com/articles/s41597-0… @ScientificData @UniofOxford @OxfordBiology
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OpenTraits retweeted
3 Jun 2023
Check out the bilingual blog of our latest
publication, led by @biodemography: the
@mosaicdatabase, out now in
@ScientificData salgo.ox.ac.uk/article/unlea…
Spread the love (and data/functionality) please
@Open_Traits @bjenquist @jonesor @OxfordBiology @tommaso_jucker @ZurellLab
3 Jun 2023
We are excited to announce a new trait database for ecologists: MOSAIC traits, leveraging the full power of @comadreDB, @compadreDB, and @PadrinoDB. Read about us in Nature Scientific Data: nature.com/articles/s41597-0… @ScientificData @UniofOxford @OxfordBiology
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OpenTraits retweeted
20 Apr 2023
New paper alert 🕷️🐟🐜🦍🦎🦀🐦
Bringing light onto the Raunkiæran shortfall: A comprehensive review of traits used in functional animal ecology #OpenAccess
Half of the authors are graduate students, which makes me very happy!
Read the full thread🧶
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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OpenTraits retweeted
6 Apr 2023
Forest canopies can #thermoregulate! Our @PNAS letter shows most layers exhibit #limitedHomethermy, with only the canopy-top exhibiting #megathermy. Canopy-top thermal imaging data are widely reported, but do not accurately quantify canopy-scale behavior. shorturl.at/cqrN9
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OpenTraits retweeted
3 Apr 2023
Stealing from the (data) rich and giving to the poor: a Robin Hood approach to predict traits for all fishes worldwide! Led by Jim Thorson @NOAAFisheries with @Aurore_Maureaud and others. Now out in @MethodsEcolEvol
fisheries.noaa.gov/feature-s…
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4 Apr 2023
Looking for Open Source information related to sustainability (including biodiversity and natural resources, amongst many others)? Check out github.com/protontypes/open-…
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OpenTraits retweeted
28 Mar 2023
New versions of COMPADRE and COMADRE now available with hundreds of new MPMs for dozens of new studies. Read more about it here compadre-db.org/AboutUs/Blog @SalGoTeam @OxfordBiology @sam_gascoigne @jonesor @EvoDemo8 @AldoCompagnoni @tif_knight @bjenquist @Open_Traits
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15 Mar 2023
Training session in the framework of the EMODnet Biology Phase IV on the feasibility study for recognition of specific ecological traits and sampling devices/methodologies in text emodnet.ec.europa.eu/node/49…
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OpenTraits retweeted
27 Feb 2023
Better incentives are needed to reward academic software development nature.com/articles/s41559-0… (or rdcu.be/c6uMN if you don't subscribe to NEE)
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