description: The TRY database is a growing compilation of vascular plant traits (also mosses and lichens) including published (>10,000 original publications) and unpublished data. TRY started in 2007. As of today, there are 12 mio trait records.

webpage:

paperDOIcitation: https://www.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2486.2011.02451.x

contentURL: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/open-traits-network/otn-taxon-trait-summary/a69427ac1f4ca392457e5cef8fb649232cf86fbb/_data/R/manual_downloads/SpeciesTraitsCombinations4OTN_Family.zip

datasetDOI_URL: https://www.try-db.org

dataStandard: Standardization of traits according to http://top-thesaurus.org/; standardization of taxonomy based on http://www.theplantlist.org/

standardizationScripts: https://www.try-db.org/TryWeb/Database.php

contactName: Jens Kattge / Gerhard Boenisch / Sandra Díaz / Sandra Lavorel / Colin Prentice / Paul Leadley / Christian Wirth / the TRY Network

contactEmail: jkattge@bgc-jena.mpg.de

license: CC BY

traitList: 2091 plant traits

higherGeography: Global | Africa | Antarctica | Asia | Europe | North America | Oceania | South America

decimalLatitude: -66 to 85

decimalLongitude: -178 to 180

taxon: Tracheophyta

eventDate: about 1900 to current

taxaList: 280,000 plant taxa

usefulClasses: Mostly in-situ measurements on plant individuals