TR8 (version 0.8)

TR8-package: TR8: a tool for retrieving functional traits data for plant species.

Description

This package provide a set of functions for extracting traits data for plant species from the following sources:

• Biolflorhttp://www2.ufz.de/biolflor/index.jsp

Ecological Flora of the British Isles http://www.ecoflora.co.uk/

LEDA traitbase http://www.leda-traitbase.org/LEDAportal/

Ellenberg values for Italian Flora

Mycorrhizal intensity database

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package

Details

ll{ Package: TR8 Type: Package Version: 1.0 Date: 2014-02-27 License: GPL>=2 Depends: XML, RCurl, plyr, taxize }

The easiest way of using the package is through the tr8() function, which accepts a vector of plant species names and returns a data frame containg traits data which have been found in the various sources. The TR8 name, inspired by "car plates" jokes, was chosen since it both reminds of the main object of the package and is extremely short to type.

References

Please always use the following citations any time you use trait data retrieved with tr8

BiolFlor

Klotz, S., Kühn, I., Durka, W. (eds) (2002). BIOLFLOR - Eine Datenbank zu biologisch-ökologischen Merkmalen zur Flora von Deutschland. Schriftenreihe für Vegetationskunde *38*: 1-333. (Bundesamt für. Bonn, Bundesamt für Naturschutz)

Ecoflora

Fitter, A . H. and Peat , H. J. (1994). The Ecological Flora Database, J. Ecol., 82, 415-425. http://www.ecoflora.co.uk

LEDA traitbase Kleyer, M., Bekker, R.M., Knevel, I.C., Bakker, J.P, Thompson, K., Sonnenschein, M., Poschlod, P., Van Groenendael, J.M., Klimes, L., Klimesova, J., Klotz, S., Rusch, G.M., Hermy, M., Adriaens, D., Boedeltje, G., Bossuyt, B., Dannemann, A., Endels, P., Götzenberger, L., Hodgson, J.G., Jackel, A-K., Kühn, I., Kunzmann, D., Ozinga, W.A., Römermann, C., Stadler, M., Schlegelmilch, J., Steendam, H.J., Tackenberg, O., Wilmann, B., Cornelissen, J.H.C., Eriksson, O., Garnier, E., Peco, B. (2008). The LEDA Traitbase: A database of life-history traits of Northwest European flora. Journal of Ecology 96: 1266-1274.

Akhmetzhanova et al, 2012

Akhmetzhanova, A.A, Soudzilovskaia, N.A., Onipchenko, V.G., Cornwell, W. K., Agafonov, V. A., Selivanov, I.A., and Cornelissen, J. H. C. (2012): A rediscovered treasure: mycorrhizal intensity database for 3000 vascular plants species across the former Soviet Union. Ecology 93:689. http://esapubs.org/Archive/ecol/E093/059/default.htm

Pignatti et al., 2005

Pignatti, S., Menegoni, P., Pietrosanti, S. (2005). Biondicazione attraverso le piante vascolari. Valori di indicazione secondo Ellenberg (Zeigerwerte) per le specie della Flora d'Italia. Braun-Blanquetia 39, Camerino, pp. 97.

See Also

bib()

Examples

## download trait data for Abies alba and store
## them in a dataframe called My_traits (beware: at the moment
## setting gui_config=FALSE will only retrieve Ellenberg
## data from Italian Flora's species
My_traits<-tr8(species_list=c("Abies alba"),gui_config=FALSE)