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ibartomeus / traitbase

This repo manages the dynamic individual trait database www.traitbase.info via traitbaseR (https://github.com/metadevpro/traitbaser)
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Common traits across animals #8

Open ibartomeus opened 6 years ago

ibartomeus commented 6 years ago

Can we make a list of common traits to retain? As units won't be common. I think the right thing to do is make a function that transform all to common values (e.g. recategorizing or using allometric relationships)

Candidates [ ] body size (fresh grams) [ ] Feundity (descendents per female) [ ] Metabolic rate /thermal tolerance? [ ] Feeding guild?

indradecastro commented 5 years ago

More candidates can be found in Moretti et al 2017 Handbook of protocols for standardized measurement of terrestrial invertebrate functional traits.

From their summary:

Here, we present a comprehensive review and detailed protocol for a set of 29 traits known to be sensitive to global stressors and to affect ecosystem processes and services. We give recommendations how to measure these traits under standardized conditions across various terrestrial invertebrate taxonomic groups.

And

This handbook is a crucial first step towards standardizing trait methodology across the most studied terrestrial invertebrate groups, and the protocols are aimed to balance general applicability and requirements for special cases or particular taxa. Therefore, we envision this handbook as a common platform to which researchers can further provide methodological input for additional special cases.