TR8 (version 0.8)

tr8: tr8: retrieving functional traits data from various databases.

Description

tr8 makes internally use of other functions provided by the TR8 package in order to query various databases and provide the user with a dataframe containing traits data for the species of interest. At the moment the following databeses are available:

• 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

Usage

tr8(species_list, gui_config = TRUE)

Value

data.frame containing various traits data for the species of interest

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 (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)