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      The Coral Trait Database, a curated database of trait information for coral species from the global oceans

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      Community ecology, Marine biology, Biodiversity, Biogeography, Coral reefs

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          Trait-based approaches advance ecological and evolutionary research because traits provide a strong link to an organism’s function and fitness. Trait-based research might lead to a deeper understanding of the functions of, and services provided by, ecosystems, thereby improving management, which is vital in the current era of rapid environmental change. Coral reef scientists have long collected trait data for corals; however, these are difficult to access and often under-utilized in addressing large-scale questions. We present the Coral Trait Database initiative that aims to bring together physiological, morphological, ecological, phylogenetic and biogeographic trait information into a single repository. The database houses species- and individual-level data from published field and experimental studies alongside contextual data that provide important framing for analyses. In this data descriptor, we release data for 56 traits for 1547 species, and present a collaborative platform on which other trait data are being actively federated. Our overall goal is for the Coral Trait Database to become an open-source, community-led data clearinghouse that accelerates coral reef research.

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          NIH Image to ImageJ: 25 years of image analysis.

          For the past 25 years NIH Image and ImageJ software have been pioneers as open tools for the analysis of scientific images. We discuss the origins, challenges and solutions of these two programs, and how their history can serve to advise and inform other software projects.
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            Rebuilding community ecology from functional traits.

            There is considerable debate about whether community ecology will ever produce general principles. We suggest here that this can be achieved but that community ecology has lost its way by focusing on pairwise species interactions independent of the environment. We assert that community ecology should return to an emphasis on four themes that are tied together by a two-step process: how the fundamental niche is governed by functional traits within the context of abiotic environmental gradients; and how the interaction between traits and fundamental niches maps onto the realized niche in the context of a biotic interaction milieu. We suggest this approach can create a more quantitative and predictive science that can more readily address issues of global change.
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              Incorporating plant functional diversity effects in ecosystem service assessments.

              Global environmental change affects the sustained provision of a wide set of ecosystem services. Although the delivery of ecosystem services is strongly affected by abiotic drivers and direct land use effects, it is also modulated by the functional diversity of biological communities (the value, range, and relative abundance of functional traits in a given ecosystem). The focus of this article is on integrating the different possible mechanisms by which functional diversity affects ecosystem properties that are directly relevant to ecosystem services. We propose a systematic way for progressing in understanding how land cover change affects these ecosystem properties through functional diversity modifications. Models on links between ecosystem properties and the local mean, range, and distribution of plant trait values are numerous, but they have been scattered in the literature, with varying degrees of empirical support and varying functional diversity components analyzed. Here we articulate these different components in a single conceptual and methodological framework that allows testing them in combination. We illustrate our approach with examples from the literature and apply the proposed framework to a grassland system in the central French Alps in which functional diversity, by responding to land use change, alters the provision of ecosystem services important to local stakeholders. We claim that our framework contributes to opening a new area of research at the interface of land change science and fundamental ecology.
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                Journal
                Sci Data
                Sci Data
                Scientific Data
                Nature Publishing Group
                2052-4463
                29 March 2016
                2016
                : 3
                : 160017
                Affiliations
                [1 ] Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University , New South Wales 2109, Australia
                [2 ] Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University , Townsville 4811, Australia
                [3 ] Center for Macroecology, Evolution & Climate, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen , Copenhagen DK-2100, Denmark
                [4 ] Australian Institute of Marine Science , PMB #3, Townsville MC, Townsville 4810, Australia
                [5 ] Department of Invertebrate Zoology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian , Washington, District Of Columbia 20013, USA
                [6 ] College of Marine and Environmental Sciences, James Cook University , Townsville 4811, Australia
                [7 ] Marine Program, Wildlife Conservation Society , Bronx, New York 10460, USA
                [8 ] University of Hawaii, Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology, School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology , Kaneohe, Hawaii 96744, USA
                [9 ] Department of Biological Sciences and Tropical Marine Science Institute, National University of Singapore , Singapore 117543, Singapore
                [10 ] School of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland , St Lucia, Queensland 4072, Australia
                [11 ] Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland , St Lucia, Queensland 4072, Australia
                [12 ] Environmental Technologies, Coastal & Freshwater Group, The Cawthron Institute , Nelson 7010, New Zealand
                [13 ] Institute of Marine Science, The University of Auckland , Auckland 1142, New Zealand
                [14 ] Trace and Environmental DNA Laboratory, Department of Environment and Agriculture, Curtin University , Perth, Western Australia 6102, Australia
                [15 ] Biodiversity and Geosciences Program, Queensland Museum Network , South Brisbane, Queensland 4101, Australia
                [16 ] School of Life Sciences, The University of Warwick , Coventry CV4 7AL, UK
                Author notes
                [a ] J.S.M. (email: joshua.madin@ 123456mq.edu.au )
                [b ] A.H.B. (email: andrew.baird@ 123456jcu.edu.au ).
                []

                J.S.M. and A.H.B. conceived the idea. J.S.M., M.D. and A.H.B. compiled the preliminary data. J.S.M., K.D.A., A.H.A., T.B., S.D.C., S.C., S.R.C., E.D., M.D., D.F., E.C.F., R.D.G., M.O.H., D.H., S.A.K., M.A.K., C.K., J.M.L., C.E.L., O.L., J.M., T.M., J.M.P., X.P., M.S.P., H.M.P., T.E.R., M.S., C.C.W., E.W. and A.H.B. compiled, entered and edited trait data and jointly wrote the data descriptor.

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                http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1537-0859
                http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9814-092X
                http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5380-7041
                http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2322-3269
                Article
                sdata201617
                10.1038/sdata.2016.17
                4810887
                27023900
                27f2bd05-795c-4a3c-adb6-24180cea4846
                Copyright © 2016, Macmillan Publishers Limited

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                : 06 October 2015
                : 28 January 2016
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                community ecology,marine biology,biodiversity,biogeography,coral reefs

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