EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals

By H. Wilman, J. Belmaker, J. Simpson, C. Rosa, M. Rivadeneira, Walter Jetz. 2014

1,814 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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In Ecological Modeling

1. Bette A. Loiselle
2. Tim Newbold
3. Laure Gallien
4. Flavia A. Montaño‐Centellas
5. T. Münkemüller
6. Karel Mokany
7. Wilfried Thuiller
8. Marc W. Cadotte

In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

1. Flavia A. Montaño‐Centellas
2. Bette A. Loiselle
3. T. Münkemüller
4. Laure Gallien
5. Wilfried Thuiller
6. A. Etard
7. Marc W. Cadotte
8. K. Ferraz

In Nature and Landscape Conservation

1. Wilfried Thuiller
2. Tim Newbold
3. Laure Gallien
4. T. Münkemüller
5. Karel Mokany
6. Bette A. Loiselle
7. Flavia A. Montaño‐Centellas
8. Marc W. Cadotte

Citations in the corpus

• Global gaps in trait data for terrestrial vertebrates (2020, methodology): “…each trait Sources Taxa Traits BM BL L/ML MA GL LCS TL DA RS H Oliveira et al. (2017) Amphibians (✔) ✔ (✔) ✔ ✔ ~✔ ✔ Cooper et al. (2008) ✔ Sodhi et al. (2008) ✔ Wilman et al. (2014) Birds ✔ ~✔ ✔ BirdLifea ✔ ✔ ✔ Jones et al. (2009) Mammals ✔ (✔) (✔) (✔) ✔ ✔ Kissling et al. (2014) ✔ Gainsbury et…”
• What we (don’t) know about global plant diversity (2018, neutral): “There are other taxonomic groups, including birds and mammals, for which complete sampling has been an explicit aim, and as such relevant trait datasets have high-to-complete species coverage (e.g. Wilman et al. , 2014; Jones et al. , 2009).”
• Using functional and phylogenetic diversity to infer avian community assembly along elevational gradients (2019, positive): “In Wilman et al. (2014), diet and foraging strata are presented as percentages in multiple columns that add up to 100 for each species (categories for diet: invertebrates, vertebrates, fish, fruit, nectar, seed, other plant; cat‐ egories for foraging: ground, understorey, mid‐high, canopy, aerial),…”
• Novel seasonal land cover associations for eastern North American forest birds identified through dynamic species distribution modelling (2016, methodology): “We assigned each species to a foraging guild using the Elton Traits 1.0 database (Wilman et al., 2014).”
• Dos and don'ts when inferring assembly rules from diversity patterns (2020, background): “…Albouy, & Thuiller, 2016; Luck, Lavorel, McIntyre, & Lumb, 2012; Schneider et al., 2019), open-access databases are improving (Kattge et al., 2011; Wilman et al., 2014), and trait syndromes (i.e., observed covariations in traits) can help to reduce trait space to a few relevant dimensions (Diaz…”