Spanning animal and plant biology – the critical need for an Open Traits initiative across biology

Announcing the first OpenTraits workshop

August 4-5, 2018, prior to the Ecological Society of America annual meetings, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA 

 

OpenTraits.org are launching their inaugural  OpenTraits workshop (http://opentraits.org/) this summer. This workshop is part of a coordinated, international series of meetings focused on facilitating open collaboration and standardization in the collection and sharing of trait data. Find out more about their mission and this meeting here.

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By Bjorn Robroek (University of Southampton, @unpeatable) and Sarah Marsham (Newcastle University, @sara_marine)

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At the end of June, about 125 ecologists from all over the world got together at the University of Exeter Streatham Campus for a 3-day symposium on trait-based ecology, organized by the New Phytologist Trust. Continue reading “Trait co-variation: structural and functional relationships in plant ecology at the 39th New Phytologist Symposium.”