description: TraitAM, a global spore trait database for arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi

webpage:

paperDOIcitation: 10.1038/s41597-025-04940-x

contentURL: https://datadryad.org/downloads/file_stream/3985003

datasetDOI_URL: https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.6hdr7sr8z

dataStandard:

standardizationScripts:

contactName: Bala Chaudhary

contactEmail: bala.chaudhary@dartmouth.edu

license: CC0

traitList: volume | shape | surface ornamentation | color | wall thickness

higherGeography:

decimalLatitude:

decimalLongitude:

taxon: Glomeromycotina

eventDate:

taxaList: subphylum Glomeromycotina

usefulClasses: mined from original species descriptions and used to calculate newly developed fungal trait metrics that can be employed to explore both intra- and inter-specific variation in traits