The importance of digitized biocollections as a source of trait data and a new VertNet resource.

Abstract excerpt

For vast areas of the globe and large parts of the tree of life, data needed to inform trait diversity is incomplete. Such trait data, when fully assembled, however, form the link between the evolutionary history of organisms, their assembly into communities, and the nature and functioning of ecosystems. Recent efforts to close data gaps have focused on collating trait-by-species databases, which only provide...

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• Databases, Genetic
• Genetic Variation
• Quantitative Trait Loci
• Sequence Analysis, DNA
• Software