ArticleNature communications2026
Crowdsourced biodiversity monitoring fills gaps in global plant trait mapping.
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Daniel LuskChair of Sensor-based Geoinformatics (geosense), University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany. daniel.lusk@geosense.uni-freiburg.de.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0002-9745-5011
Sophie WolfRemote Sensing Centre for Earth System Research, Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7848-3725
Daria SvidzinskaRemote Sensing Centre for Earth System Research, Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany.
Carsten F DormannDepartment of Biometry and Environmental System Analysis, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9835-1794
Jens KattgeGerman Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1022-8469
Helge BruelheideGerman Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3135-0356
Francesco Maria SabatiniBIOME Lab, Department of Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences (BiGeA), Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7202-7697
Gabriella DamascenoGerman Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5103-484X
Álvaro Moreno MartínezImage Signal Processing Group, Image Processing Laboratory (IPL), University of Valencia, Paterna, Spain.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2990-7768
Cyrille ViolleCEFE, CNRS, EPHE, IRD, University of Montpellier, Montpellier, France.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2471-9226
Daniel HendingDepartment of Biology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0609-4354
Georg J A HähnBIOME Lab, Department of Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences (BiGeA), Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3733-1498
Solana TabeniInstituto Argentino de Investigaciones de las Zonas Áridas, CONICET, Mendoza, Argentina.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1510-8084
Shyam PhartyalDepartment of Forestry, Mizoram University, Aizawl, India.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3266-6619
Fernando GonçalvesDepartment of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8620-1011
Holger KreftBiodiversity, Macroecology & Biogeography, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4471-8236
Marco SchmidtPalmengarten der Stadt Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6087-6117
Han ChenCollege of Grassland Science, Inner Mongolia Agricultural University, Hohhot, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9477-5541
Behlül GülerBiology Education, Dokuz Eylül University, Buca, Izmir, Turkey.
Jiri DolezalInstitute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Trebon, Czechia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5829-4051
Remigiusz PielechInstitute of Botany, Faculty of Biology, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland.
Anaclara GuidoInstituto de Ecología y Ciencias Ambientales, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay.
Ciara DwyerCentre for Environmental and Climate Science, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7558-3664
Francesca NapoleoneSapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3807-7180
Jacob WillieCentre for Research and Conservation, Royal Zoological Society of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8939-1321
André Luís GasperUniversidade Regional de Blumenau, Blumenau, Brazil.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1940-9581
Manuel J MacíaDepartamento de Biología (Botánica), Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4676-612X
Milan ChytryDepartment of Botany and Zoology, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Brno, Czechia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8122-3075
Jonathan LenoirUMR CNRS 7058 "Ecologie et Dynamique des Systèmes Anthropisés" (EDYSAN), Université de Picardie Jules Verne, Amiens, France.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0638-9582
Dinesh ThakurInstitute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Trebon, Czechia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4610-5444
Jürgen DenglerInstitute of Natural Resource Sciences (IUNR), Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW), Wädenswil, Switzerland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3221-660X
Sebastian ŚwierszczInstitute of Agroecology and Plant Production, Wrocław University of Environmental and Life Sciences, Wrocław, Poland.
Jan AltmanInstitute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Trebon, Czechia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4879-5773
Ladislav MucinaIluka Chair in Vegetation Science and Biogeography, Harry Butler Institute, Murdoch University, Perth, WA, Australia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0317-8886
Ashish N NerlekarDepartment of Plant Biology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA.
Kaoru KakinumaKorea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, South Korea.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4647-9582
Pravin RawatICFRE- Himalayan Forest Research Institute, Shimla, Himachal Pradesh, India.
Zvjezdana StančićFaculty of Geotechnical Engineering, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6124-811X
Riccardo TestolinBIOME Lab, Department of Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences (BiGeA), Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.
Mohamed Z HatimPlant Ecology and Nature Conservation Group, Environmental Sciences Department, Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, The Netherlands.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0872-5108
Flávio RodriguesPlant Ecology Laboratory (LABEV), UNEMAT, Nova Xavantina, MT, Brazil.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8538-0089
Jürgen HomeierFaculty of Resource Management, HAWK University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Göttingen, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5676-3267
Marcia C M MarquesDepartamento de Botânica, SCB, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba, Brazil.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1003-9596
James K McCarthyManaaki Whenua - Landcare Research, Lincoln, New Zealand.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3060-1678
M A El-SheikhBotany and Microbiology Department, College of Science, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0720-7448
Kirill KorznikovInstitute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Trebon, Czechia.
Kilian GerberdingChair of Sensor-based Geoinformatics (geosense), University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0002-5001-2571
Teja KattenbornChair of Sensor-based Geoinformatics (geosense), University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7381-3828
Funding
Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (Brazilian Federal Agency for the Support and Evaluation of Graduate Education) 88887.974741/2024-00Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation) 202548816Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation) 442032008Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation) 444524904Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation) 459819582Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation) 504978936Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation) EXC 3127 Future ForestsEuropean Space Agency (ESA) FORTRACKSchweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung (Swiss National Science Foundation) TMPFP2_217531
Abstract
Plant functional traits are fundamental to ecosystem dynamics and Earth system processes, but their global characterization is limited by available field surveys and trait measurements. Recent expansions in biodiversity data aggregation-including vegetation surveys, citizen science observations, and trait measurements-offer new opportunities to overcome these constraints. Here we demonstrate that combining these diverse data sources with high-resolution Earth observation data enables accurate modeling of key plant traits at up to 1 km
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