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A solution to the challenges of interdisciplinary aggregation and use of specimen-level trait data.

Meghan A Balk, John Deck, Kitty F Emery, Ramona L Walls, Dana Reuter, Raphael LaFrance, Joaquín Arroyo-Cabrales, Paul Barrett, Jessica Blois, Arianne Boileau and 25 more

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Article in iScience, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

35 authors.

Meghan A BalkNational Ecology Observatory Network, Battelle, Boulder, CO 80301, USA.
John DeckBerkeley Natural History Museums, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.
Kitty F EmeryFlorida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA.
Ramona L WallsCritical Path Institute, Tucson, AZ 85718, USA.
Dana ReuterDepartment of Earth Sciences, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403, USA.
Raphael LaFranceFlorida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA.
Joaquín Arroyo-CabralesArchaeozoology Lab, Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia, 06060 Mexico City, CdMx, Mexico.
Paul BarrettDepartment of Earth Sciences, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403, USA.
Jessica BloisDepartment of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of California, Merced, Merced, CA 95343, USA.
Arianne BoileauDepartment of Archaeology, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6, Canada.
Laura BrenskelleDepartment of Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA.
Nicole R CannarozziFlorida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA.
J Alberto CruzArchaeozoology Lab, Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia, 06060 Mexico City, CdMx, Mexico.
Liliana M DávalosStony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA.
Noé U de la SanchaDepartment of Environmental Science and Studies, DePaul University, Chicago, IL 60614, USA.
Prasiddhi GyawaliCollege of Science, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA.
Maggie M HantakFlorida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA.
Samantha HopkinsDepartment of Earth Sciences, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403, USA.
Brooks KohliDepartment of Biology and Chemistry, Morehead State University, Morehead, KY 40351, USA.
Jessica N KingFlorida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA.
Michelle S KooMuseum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.
A Michelle LawingDepartment of Ecology and Conservation Biology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA.
Helena MachadoDepartment of Earth Sciences, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403, USA.
Samantha M McCraneDepartment of Anthropology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA.
Bryan McLeanDepartment of Biology, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC 27412, USA.
Michèle E MorganPeabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.
Suzanne Pilaar BirchDepartment of Anthropology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA.
Denne ReedDepartment of Anthropology, University of Texas, Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA.
Elizabeth J ReitzGeorgia Museum of Natural History, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA.
Neeka SewnathDepartment of Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA.
Nathan S UphamSchool of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85281, USA.
Amelia VillaseñorDepartment of Anthropology, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR 72701, USA.
Laurel YoheDepartment of Bioinformatics and Genomics, University of North Carolina Charlotte, Charlotte, NC 28223, USA.
Edward B DavisDepartment of Earth Sciences, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403, USA.
Robert P GuralnickFlorida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Understanding variation of traits within and among species through time and across space is central to many questions in biology. Many resources assemble species-level trait data, but the data and metadata underlying those trait measurements are often not reported. Here, we introduce FuTRES (Functional Trait Resource for Environmental Studies; pronounced few-tress), an online datastore and community resource for individual-level trait reporting that utilizes a semantic framework. FuTRES already stores millions of trait measurements for paleobiological, zooarchaeological, and modern specimens, with a current focus on mammals. We compare dynamically derived extant mammal species' body size measurements in FuTRES with summary values from other compilations, highlighting potential issues with simply reporting a single mean estimate. We then show that individual-level data improve estimates of body mass-including uncertainty-for zooarchaeological specimens. FuTRES facilitates trait data integration and discoverability, accelerating new research agendas, especially scaling from intra- to interspecific trait variability.

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AnimalsBiological databaseEvolutionary historyOrnithologyPaleobiologyPhylogeneticsSystematics

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PMID36212022
PMCPMC9535407

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