AusTraits: a curated plant trait database for the Australian flora

AusTraits is a transformative database, containing measurements on the traits of Australia's plant taxa, standardised from hundreds of disconnected primary sources. So far, data have been assembled from > 300 distinct sources, describing > 500 plant traits and > 34,000 taxa.
To handle the harmonising of diverse data sources, we use a reproducible workflow to implement the various changes required for each source to reformat it suitable for incorporation in AusTraits. Such changes include restructuring datasets, renaming variables, changing variable units, changing taxon names. While this repository contains the harmonised data, the raw data and code used to build the resource are also available on the project's GitHub repository, https://github.com/traitecoevo/austraits.build/.
Further information on the project is available at the project website austraits.org and in the associated publication

AusTraits是一款革新性数据库，收录了澳大利亚植物分类群的性状测量数据，这些数据从数百个分散的原始数据源中完成标准化整合。截至目前，该数据库已从300余个独立数据源整合数据，涵盖500余种植物性状以及34000余个植物分类群。
为完成多源数据的统一协调，我们采用可复现工作流，对每个数据源执行必要的格式调整，使其适配AusTraits数据库的收录要求。此类调整包括重构数据集、重命名变量、转换变量单位以及修正分类群名称。尽管本仓库存储了已完成统一协调的数据，但构建该数据库所需的原始数据与代码，亦可在该项目的GitHub仓库（https://github.com/traitecoevo/austraits.build/）中获取。
更多项目相关信息可登录项目官网austraits.org，或查阅配套发表的学术论文获取。