sDevTrait - Streamlining Development Efforts in Tools for Ecological Trait Analyses

Fully virtual meeting: 26.-30.10.2020

PIs:
Alexander Keller
Markus Ankenbrand

iDiv members:
Jens Kattge
Helge Bruelheide
Renske Onstein

Project summary:
Traits related to function determine how organisms interact with environments and other species. Databases and software are developed to hold and process this wealth of data, yet interoperability is mostly lacking. We aim to provide a unified framework for existing and future tool developments, but also to streamline analytical trait pipelines. With this, reusable data will be available for large scale syntheses, which we will use to tackle key questions in trait-based ecology only answerable by unified big-data integration.

Participants:
Markus Ankenbrand (Universität Würzburg), Susanne Butschkau (Technical University of Munich), Stefanie Dekeyzer (Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ) ), Daniel Falster (University of New South Wales), Rachael Gallagher (Macquarie University), Amanda Gallinat (Utah State University), Jennifer Hammock (Smithsonian Institution), Jens Kattge (Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry), Alexander Keller (University of Würzburg), Sara Leonhardt (Technical University of Munich), Joshua Madin (Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology), Brian Maitner (University of Connecticut), Renske Onstein, Will Pearse (Imperial College London), Caterina Penone (University of Bern), Jorrit Poelen (Ronin Institute for Independent Scholarship), Florian Schneider (ISOE – Institute for Social-Ecological Research), Aniko Toth (University of New South Wales)


First meeting: 31.08. - 03.09.2021

In Person Participants:
Markus Ankenbrand (Universität Würzburg), Jennifer Hammock (Smithsonian Institution), Jens Kattge (Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry), Alexander Keller (University of Würzburg), Renske Onstein (iDiv), Helge Bruelheide (MLU)

Remote Participants:
Stefanie Dekeyzer (Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ) ), Rachael Gallagher (Macquarie University), Joshua Madin (Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology), Brian Maitner (University of Connecticut), Will Pearse (Imperial College London), Caterina Penone (University of Bern), Jorrit Poelen (Ronin Institute for Independent Scholarship), Florian Schneider (ISOE – Institute for Social-Ecological Research), Aniko Toth (University of New South Wales)

Meeting report


Second meeting: 08-11.08.2022

In-person participants:
Markus Ankenbrand (CCTB, University of Würzburg), Stefanie Dekeyzer (Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ)); Jennifer Hammock (Smithsonian); Jens Kattge (MPI-BGC); Alexander Keller (LMU Munich); Brian Maitner (University at Buffalo); Daniel Mietchen (Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries); Caterina Penone (University of Bern); Jorrit Poelen (Independent)

Remote participants:
Katja Seltmann (University of California, Santa Barbara); Aniko Toth (University of New South Wales)

Meeting report


Publications:

Keller, A., Ankenbrand, M. J., Bruelheide, H., Dekeyzer, S., Enquist, B. J., Erfanian, M. B., Falster, D. S., Gallagher, R. V., Hammock, J., Kattge, J., Leonhardt, S. D., Madin, J. S., Maitner, B., Neyret, M., Onstein, R. E., Pearse, W. D., Poelen, J. H., Salguero-Gomez, R., Schneider, F. D. … Penone, C. (2023). Ten (mostly) simple rules to future-proof trait data in ecological and evolutionary sciences. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 14, 444– 458. See here

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