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  • Frugivoria: an open trait database of birds and mammals exhibiting frugivory in moist montane Neotropical forest
  • Gerstner, Beth E; Michigan State University
    Zarnetske, Phoebe L; Michigan State University
    Bills, Patrick; Michigan State University
  • 2021-11-29
  • Gerstner, B.E., P.L. Zarnetske, and P. Bills. 2021. Frugivoria: an open trait database of birds and mammals exhibiting frugivory in moist montane Neotropical forest ver 2. Environmental Data Initiative. https://doi.org/DOI_PLACE_HOLDER (Accessed 2024-12-28).

  • Biodiversity in many areas is rapidly shifting and declining as a consequence of global change. As such, there is an urgent need for new tools and strategies to help identify, monitor, and conserve biodiversity hotspots. One way to identify these areas is by quantifying functional diversity, which measures the unique roles of species within a community and is valuable for conservation because of its relationship with ecosystem functioning. Unfortunately, the functional trait information required to evaluate functional diversity is often lacking and is difficult to harmonize across disparate data sources. Biodiversity hotspots are particularly lacking in this information. To address this knowledge gap, we compiled Frugivoria, a trait database containing dietary, life-history, and morphological traits as well as IUCN conservation status, for mammals and birds exhibiting frugivory, which are important for seed dispersal, an essential ecosystem service. Accompanying Frugivoria is an open workflow that harmonizes trait and taxonomic data from disparate sources and enables users to analyze traits in space. This version of Frugivoria encompasses species in moist montane forests of Central and South America. Compared with existing trait databases, Frugivoria adds 25 species (reclassifying 199 to align with the most recent taxonomic changes), adds new traits such as observed and inferred range size, habitat specialization, and body size, and also fills gaps in trait categories from other databases such as diet category, home range size, generation time, and longevity. Overall, Frugivoria adds 2,045 new trait values for mammals and 4,022 for birds, and includes a total of 17,454 trait entries with minimums and maximums reported for certain traits. Frugivoria and its workflow enables researchers to quantify relationships between traits and the environment, as well as spatial trends in functional diversity, contributing to basic knowledge and applied conservation of frugivores in this region. By harmonizing trait information from disparate sources and providing code to access species occurrence data, this open-access database fills a major knowledge gap and enables more comprehensive trait-based studies of species exhibiting frugivory in this ecologically important region.

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  • Data Entities:
    1. Frugivoria: Montane mammal database  (266.7 KiB; 9 downloads) 
    2. Frugivoria: Montane bird database  (286.4 KiB; 9 downloads) 
    3. Lookup table: All montane birds  (36.2 KiB; 5 downloads) 
    4. Lookup table: All montane mammals  (15.7 KiB; 7 downloads) 
    5. Lookup table: Mammals exhibiting frugivory  (5.6 KiB; 11 downloads) 
    6. Lookup table: Birds exhibiting frugivory  (6.1 KiB; 9 downloads) 
    7. Frugivoria: Sources for newly added mammal traits  (31.9 KiB; 9 downloads) 
    8. Frugivoria: Sources for newly added bird traits  (12.4 KiB; 8 downloads) 
    9. Frugivoria: Ancillary trait information  (30.3 KiB; 7 downloads) 
    10. L0_1_IUCN_species_list_subset  (8.7 KiB; 6 downloads) 
    11. L0_2_external_trait_database_merge  (8.4 KiB; 6 downloads) 
    12. L0_3_montane_frugivore_subset  (1.4 KiB; 6 downloads) 
    13. L0_4_mammal_merge_pantheria  (2.8 KiB; 6 downloads) 
    14. L0_5_database_final_edits  (2.4 KiB; 6 downloads) 
    15. L1_frugivoria_montane_analysis_demo  (9.3 KiB; 5 downloads) 
    16. L2_trait_map_fig  (16.2 KiB; 6 downloads) 
    17. L2_trait_count_barplot  (5.1 KiB; 6 downloads) 
    18. L2_downloading_gbif_records  (4.3 KiB; 5 downloads) 
    19. L2_database_stacked_barplot  (1.7 KiB; 5 downloads) 
    20. L2_study_region_map_fig  (7.6 KiB; 6 downloads) 
    21. Frugivoria workflow diagram  (155.7 KiB; 6 downloads) 
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