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Organized Oral Session

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Organized Oral Session

OOS 35 - Plant Traits for All Ecologists

Wednesday, August 9, 2023
8:00 AM – 9:30 AM PDT
Location: 252

The traits of plants control their biotic and abiotic interactions and the ecosystem services they provide and are the primary determinant of terrestrial ecosystem function. Understanding the factors that determine which traits are found in which locations, how those traits may change over time, and the effects those changes will have is thus of critical global importance. To meet these global challenges, we need global data and global participation, both of which are facilitated by an Open Science approach emphasizing the free sharing of data, code, and educational materials. Open Science lowers barriers to participation in research. It is fundamentally necessary for many questions in trait-based ecology: one person or group cannot collect all the data needed. It requires a collaborative effort.

This hybrid oral session consists of presentations highlighting some of the largest ongoing Open Science plant trait efforts globally. The presentations highlight challenges and progress across the data life cycle, including the data collection, aggregation, and sharing stages. We discuss the importance of an Open and inclusive approach to teaching.

Presentations:

  • 8:00 AM – 8:15 AM PDT
    Global plant trait data for global questions: TRY and the move to Open Data

    Presenting Author: Jens Kattge – Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry

    Co-author: Gerhard Boenisch – Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany

    Co-author: Olee Hoi Ying Lam – University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA

    Co-author: David Schellenberger Costa – University of Leipzig, Germany; German Centre For Integrative Biodiversity Research (IDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Germany

    Co-author: Sandra Diaz – Consejo Nacional de investigaciones Cient ficas y T cnicas, Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biolog a Vegetal (IMBIV), Cordoba, Argentina; Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, F sicas y Naturales, Universidad Nacional de C rdoba, Casilla de Correo 495, 5000, Cordoba, Argentina

    Co-author: Sandra Lavorel – Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, Univ. Savoie Mont Blanc, LECA, Grenoble, France

    Co-author: Iain Colin C. Prentice – Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, North Ryde, NSW 2109, Australia

    Co-author: Paul Leadley – ESE Laboratory, Univ. Paris-Saclay, France

    Co-author: Christian Wirth – University of Leipzig; German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv)

  • 8:15 AM – 8:30 AM PDT
    Global imaging spectroscopy unlocks the potential for measuring leaf economics traits (almost) everywhere and (almost) all of the time

    Presenting Author: Phil PA Townsend, Ph.D. – University of Wisconsin - Madison

    Co-author: K. Dana Chadwick – Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology

    Co-author: Adam Chlus – CalTech Jet Propulsion Laboratory

    Co-author: Phuong Dao – Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology, University of Wisconsin-Madison

    Co-author: Benjamin Dechant – German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv)

    Co-author: Kyle R. Kovach – University of Wisconsin

    Co-author: Ryan P. Pavlick – NASA JPL

    Co-author: Natalie Queally – University of Wisconsin-Madison

    Co-author: Fabian Daniel Schneider – Jet Propulsion Laboratory / California Institute of Technology

    Co-author: Zhiwei Ye – University of Wisconsin-Madison

    Co-author: Ting Zheng – University of Wisconsin-Madison

    Co-author: Amy M. Trowbridge – University of Wisconsin - Madison

    Co-author: Celso R. Oliveira – University of Wisconsin - Madison

  • 8:30 AM – 8:45 AM PDT
    Big OpenData needs big OpenTheory: Using Open Science to forecast global changes in plant traits via the Biodiversity Forecasting Institute

    Presenting Author: Brian J. Enquist – University of Arizona

  • 8:45 AM – 9:00 AM PDT
    Plant traits for all? Biogeographic gaps in our knowledge of plant traits

    Presenting Author: Brian Salvin Maitner, Dr. – University at Buffalo

    Co-author: Rachael V. Gallagher – University of Western Sydney; Macquarie University

    Co-author: Jens-Christian Svenning – Aarhus University

    Co-author: Melanie Tietje – Aarhus University

    Co-author: Elizabeth Wenk – University of New South Wales

    Co-author: Wolf L. Eiserhardt – Aarhus University

  • 9:00 AM – 9:15 AM PDT
    The way forward: teaching traits in an Open Science framework

    Presenting Author: Vigdis Vandvik – University of Bergen

    Co-author: Brian J. Enquist – University of Arizona

    Co-author: Aud H. Halbritter, Dr. – University of Bergen

    Co-author: Brian Salvin Maitner, Dr. – University at Buffalo

    Co-author: Sean T. Michaletz – The University of British Columbia

    Co-author: Richard J. Telford, Dr. – University of Bergen

  • 9:15 AM – 9:30 AM PDT
    traits.build – An R package for building harmonized trait databases using the AusTraits workflow

    Presenting Author: Elizabeth Wenk – University of New South Wales

    Co-author: Rachael V. Gallagher – University of Western Sydney; Macquarie University

    Co-author: Daniel Falster – University of New South Wales