Authors
Joseph A Tobias, Catherine Sheard, Alex L Pigot, Adam JM Devenish, Jingyi Yang, Ferran Sayol, Montague HC Neate‐Clegg, Nico Alioravainen, Thomas L Weeks, Robert A Barber, Patrick A Walkden, Hannah EA MacGregor, Samuel EI Jones, Claire Vincent, Anna G Phillips, Nicola M Marples, Flavia A Montaño‐Centellas, Victor Leandro‐Silva, Santiago Claramunt, Bianca Darski, Benjamin G Freeman, Tom P Bregman, Christopher R Cooney, Emma C Hughes, Elliot JR Capp, Zoë K Varley, Nicholas R Friedman, Heiko Korntheuer, Andrea Corrales‐Vargas, Christopher H Trisos, Brian C Weeks, Dagmar M Hanz, Till Töpfer, Gustavo A Bravo, Vladimír Remeš, Larissa Nowak, Lincoln S Carneiro, Amilkar J Moncada R, Beata Matysioková, Daniel T Baldassarre, Alejandra Martínez‐Salinas, Jared D Wolfe, Philip M Chapman, Benjamin G Daly, Marjorie C Sorensen, Alexander Neu, Michael A Ford, Rebekah J Mayhew, Luis Fabio Silveira, David J Kelly, Nathaniel ND Annorbah, Henry S Pollock, Ada M Grabowska‐Zhang, Jay P McEntee, Juan Carlos T. Gonzalez, Camila G Meneses, Marcia C Muñoz, Luke L Powell, Gabriel A Jamie, Thomas J Matthews, Oscar Johnson, Guilherme RR Brito, Kristof Zyskowski, Ross Crates, Michael G Harvey, Maura Jurado Zevallos, Peter A Hosner, Tom Bradfer‐Lawrence, James M Maley, F Gary Stiles, Hevana S Lima, Kaiya L Provost, Moses Chibesa, Mmatjie Mashao, Jeffrey T Howard, Edson Mlamba, Marcus AH Chua, Bicheng Li, M Isabel Gómez, Natalia C García, Martin Päckert, Jérôme Fuchs, Jarome R Ali, Elizabeth P Derryberry, Monica L Carlson, Rolly C Urriza, Kristin E Brzeski, Dewi M Prawiradilaga, Matt J Rayner, Eliot T Miller, Rauri CK Bowie, René‐Marie Lafontaine, R Paul Scofield, Yingqiang Lou, Lankani Somarathna, Denis Lepage, Marshall Illif, Eike Lena Neuschulz, Mathias Templin, D Matthias Dehling, Jacob C Cooper, Olivier SG Pauwels, Kangkuso Analuddin, Jon Fjeldså, Nathalie Seddon, Paul R Sweet, Fabrice AJ DeClerck, Luciano N Naka, Jeffrey D Brawn, Alexandre Aleixo, Katrin Böhning‐Gaese, Carsten Rahbek, Susanne A Fritz, Gavin H Thomas, Matthias Schleuning
Publication date
2022/3
Journal
Ecology Letters
Volume
25
Issue
3
Pages
581-597
Description
Functional traits offer a rich quantitative framework for developing and testing theories in evolutionary biology, ecology and ecosystem science. However, the potential of functional traits to drive theoretical advances and refine models of global change can only be fully realised when species‐level information is complete. Here we present the AVONET dataset containing comprehensive functional trait data for all birds, including six ecological variables, 11 continuous morphological traits, and information on range size and location. Raw morphological measurements are presented from 90,020 individuals of 11,009 extant bird species sampled from 181 countries. These data are also summarised as species averages in three taxonomic formats, allowing integration with a global phylogeny, geographical range maps, IUCN Red List data and the eBird citizen science database. The AVONET dataset provides the most …
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