In 2017 the TRY initiative on plant plants (www.try-db.org) celebrated its 10th anniversary. During these years the TRY database has continuously grown and moved from a ‘give-and-take system’ to open access, which caused an ‘explosion’ of data requests. The current version of the TRY database not only provides more trait records, but key aspects of data curation have been improved as well, i.e. the standardization of plant taxa and trait names.
In parallel, TRY has developed the opportunity to publish individual plant trait datasets, including provision of DOIs. In cooperation with the Biodiversity Data Journal we are now working towards seamless data publications.
Results/Conclusions
This presentation will start with a brief overview of the TRY initiative. We will then present highlight results and ongoing research including the imputation of missing trait values, the global spectrum of plant form and function, trait-environment relationships, mapping plant traits and trait-based development of vegetation and ecosystem models.