TY - JOUR
T1 - Tropical Seed Trait Database
T2 - advancing seed functional ecology in the world's most biodiverse region
AU - Oliveira, Davi N.
AU - Ordóñez-Parra, Carlos A.
AU - Chen, Si Chong
AU - Arnold, A. Elizabeth
AU - Davis, Adam S.
AU - González, Alba Marina Torres
AU - Morales-Pérez, Alcides L.
AU - Díaz-Castellanos, Aleida Rocío
AU - Pérez-Enriquez, Alejandra
AU - Fidelis, Alessandra
AU - Carvalho, Amanda S.R.
AU - Santos, Amanda S.
AU - Sandoval, Ana C.
AU - Crestani, Ana Cristina V.
AU - Mairinck, Ana Luiza A.
AU - Neto, André Dias Azevedo
AU - Coetzee, Anina
AU - Traveset, Anna
AU - Andrade, Antonio Carlos S.
AU - Datta, Aparajita
AU - Teles, Aristônio M.
AU - Nerlekar, Ashish N.
AU - Sengupta, Asmita
AU - Munje, Avishkar
AU - Negret, Beatriz Salgado
AU - Basu, Bibidishananda
AU - Rocha, Carla Souza
AU - De Melo e Silva-Neto, Carlos
AU - Santos, Carlos Henrique Barbosa
AU - Sarmiento, Carolina
AU - da Cruz Vasconcelos, Caroline
AU - Offord, Catherine A.
AU - López, Cecilia L.
AU - Mayta, Cesar
AU - Ordoñez-Salanueva, Cesar Alejandro
AU - Seal, Charlotte E.
AU - Cruz, Claudineia Regina Pelacani
AU - Seymour, Colleen Lynda
AU - Almeida, Daiane Sampaio
AU - Pifano, Daniel Salgado
AU - Vieira, Daniel Luis Mascia
AU - Dias, Daniela Pereira
AU - Ramos-Chuquimia, Daniela
AU - Vieira, Daniela Cristine Mascia
AU - Sánchez, David Alejandro
AU - Cruz-Tejada, Diana Maria
AU - Cunha, Diego Da Silva
AU - Escobar, Diego Fernando Escobar
AU - Santos, Dionei Lima
AU - Silva, Dulce Alves
AU - Gonçalves, Edilma Pereira
AU - Damasceno, Edjane Silva
AU - Duarte, Edson Ferreira
AU - Mendes, Eduardo Teles Barbosa
AU - Peña-Miranda, Elkys Tomás
AU - do Carmo, Elzineide Moreira
AU - Tarazona-Tubens, Fabio L.
AU - Silva, Fabricio Francisco Santos
AU - Piña-Rodrigues, Fatima Conceição Márquez
AU - Souza, Fernanda Cristina
AU - Faria, Flavia Santos
AU - Nascimento, Francinete Alves
AU - Torres-Romero, Francisco Javier
AU - Motta, Gabriel Schmidt Teixeira
AU - Oda, Gabriela Akemi
AU - Liyanage, Ganesha S.
AU - Calvi, Geângelo Petene
AU - Costa, Glória Fabiani Leão
AU - Errington, Graeme
AU - Joseph, Grant Stuart
AU - Da Costa, Grênivel Mota
AU - Canassa, Guilherme Gonzalez
AU - Gama, Guilherme
AU - Liang, Hanci
AU - Wang, Hao Yu
AU - Yadav, Harsh
AU - Consolaro, Hélder Nagai
AU - Ferreira, Heleno Dias
AU - Miranda, Heloisa Sinatora
AU - Zirondi, Heloiza Lourenço
AU - Botey, Hillary Mireku
AU - Fontenele, Hudson Gabriel Virtuoso
AU - Pritchard, Hugh W.
AU - Pinto, Ícaro Menezes
AU - Araujo-Santos, Ilana
AU - Ferraz, Isolde Dorothea Kossmann
AU - Da Gama, Itamara Gonçalves
AU - Zambrano, Ivonne Andrea Narváez
AU - Dalling, James W.
AU - Santos, Jaylson Araujo Dos
AU - Viana, Jeandson Silva
AU - Castellanos-Barliza, Jeiner De Jesús
AU - Rodríguez, Jeniffer Viviana Díaz
AU - Hoyos, Jennifer Lorena Lopez
AU - Powers, Jennifer Sarah
AU - Corredor-Prado, Jenny Paola
AU - Vázquez-Ramírez, Jerónimo
AU - Sansevero, Jerônimo Boelsums Barreto
AU - Vargas-Figueroa, Jhon Alexander
AU - Magalhães, João Guilherme Scarpelli
AU - Borges, João Paulo Goes Da Silva
AU - Flores, Joel
AU - Ribeiro, Jonathan Wesley Ferreira
AU - Barlow, Jos
AU - Rojas, Jose Miguel
AU - Fonseca-Altahon, José Damián
AU - Morante-Filho, José Carlos
AU - Santos, José Hermeson Severo Dos
AU - Silva, Joyce Naiara
AU - Hurtado, Juan Sebastian
AU - Ley-López, Juan Manuel
AU - Villalba-Malaver, Juan Carlos
AU - Lage, Julia Maria Medeiros
AU - Benítez-Malvido, Julieta
AU - Lim, Jun Ying
AU - Jayasuriya, K. M.G.Gehan
AU - Sommerville, Karen D.
AU - Pradhan, Karishma
AU - Chong, Kelvin G.J.
AU - Mcconkey, Kim R.
AU - Garcia, Lara Amaral
AU - Brito, Laura Évora
AU - Marín, Laura Esperanza Ruiz
AU - Morellato, L. Patricia C.
AU - Aona, Lidyanne Yuriko Saleme
AU - de Oliveira, Lucas Silva
AU - Macias-Sposito, Luciano
AU - Martinez-Martinez, Luis Alfonso
AU - Navarro, Luis
AU - Daibes, Luís Felipe
AU - Coelho, Luís Francisco Mello
AU - Pinheiro, Luiz Felipe Souza
AU - Melgarejo, Luz Marina
AU - Benchimol, Maíra
AU - Wijayasinghe, Malaka Maduranga
AU - Meiado, Marcos Vinicius
AU - Amador-Cubides, Maria Camila
AU - Braz, Maria Isabel Guedes
AU - Dairel, Mariana
AU - Villegas, Mariana
AU - Guedes, Mariane Rodrigues
AU - Conde, Marilena Menezes Silva
AU - Magalhães, Marília Larocerie Lupchinski
AU - Shibata, Marília
AU - Côrtes, Marina Corrêa
AU - Ooi, Mark K.J.
AU - Prates, Mateus Brandão
AU - Chua, Matthias Seng En
AU - Figueiredo, Maurílio Assis
AU - Galetti, Mauro
AU - Ferreira, Maxmiller Cardoso
AU - Arthur, Michael
AU - Soto-Avendaño, Michelle Vanesa
AU - Cházaro-Basañez, Miguel
AU - Koutouan-Kontchoi, Milène N.
AU - Da Silva, Monalisa Alves Diniz
AU - Alves, Monique
AU - Bullón, Natali Ramírez
AU - Borawake, Noopur
AU - Santos, Núbia Sousa Carrijo Dos
AU - Razafindratsima, Onja Harinala
AU - Dávila-Aranda, Patricia
AU - Zalamea, Paul Camilo
AU - Laumann, Pedro Dias
AU - León-Lobos, Pedro
AU - Poschlod, Peter
AU - Souza-Perera, Ramón
AU - Cavalcante, Ramon Athayde Souza
AU - Gasparini, Raquel
AU - Rodrigues, Renato Garcia
AU - Frigeri, Renita B.C.
AU - Alvarez-Espino, Ricardo X.
AU - Portela, Rita De Cássia Quitete
AU - Timmers, Robert
AU - Naniwadekar, Rohit
AU - Staneke, Romano
AU - Kolb, Rosana Marta
AU - Contreras, Ruben Dario
AU - Heleno, Ruben H.
AU - Swart, Rudi Crispin
AU - Tangney, Ryan
AU - Madriñán, Santiago
AU - McInnes, Sarah J.
AU - Amoêdo, Semírian Campos
AU - Kim, Seokmin
AU - Phartyal, Shyam S.
AU - Escalante-Rebolledo, Sigfredo Edmundo
AU - Gallegos, Silvia C.
AU - Le Stradic, Soizig
AU - Hernandez-Ortiz, Steffy Margarita
AU - Sidhu, Swati
AU - Zupo, Talita Marques
AU - Vilas-Boas, Tiago
AU - Ulian, Tiziana
AU - Shukla, Ushma
AU - Pivello, Vânia Regina
AU - Klein, Vera Lúcia Gomes
AU - Da Silva, Verônica Marques Feliciano
AU - De Lima, Victor Ferreira
AU - Londoño-Lemos, Viviana
AU - Simioni, Willian Barbosa
AU - Barranco-Pérez, Willinton Andrés
AU - Varela, Yara Cristina Da Silva
AU - Athugala, Yasoja S.
AU - Newby, Zoe Joy
AU - Silveira, Fernando A.O.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2026 The Author(s). New Phytologist © 2026 New Phytologist Foundation.
PY - 2026/8/1
Y1 - 2026/8/1
N2 - Plant functional traits connect biodiversity to ecosystem processes, serving as key metrics for assessing how biota responds to environmental conditions. Functional seed traits are critical because they underpin recruitment and colonization, shaping biodiversity patterns and influencing ecosystem resilience. Yet, seed traits remain underrepresented in major data repositories, with severe gaps in the tropics. Climatic, geological, and historical differences between tropical and temperate regions drive distinct regeneration dynamics, suggesting that the paucity of tropical seed trait data limits our ability to predict regeneration niches and weakens global models largely based on temperate ecosystems. To address this gap, we introduce the Tropical Seed Trait Database (TSTD), an open-access repository spanning the full ecological spectrum of tropical seeds. The TSTD is conceived as a community-driven repository of primary data contributed directly by data owners, rather than as a secondary aggregation of global databases. It was built through contributions from ecologists working across all tropical regions, reached through direct contact, and its first version compiles 78 datasets, totaling 137 583 records across 44 functional traits. Covering 5115 species in 33 countries, with the Neotropics overrepresented, the TSTD marks a crucial step toward more inclusive, globally representative trait databases that can open multiple research avenues.
AB - Plant functional traits connect biodiversity to ecosystem processes, serving as key metrics for assessing how biota responds to environmental conditions. Functional seed traits are critical because they underpin recruitment and colonization, shaping biodiversity patterns and influencing ecosystem resilience. Yet, seed traits remain underrepresented in major data repositories, with severe gaps in the tropics. Climatic, geological, and historical differences between tropical and temperate regions drive distinct regeneration dynamics, suggesting that the paucity of tropical seed trait data limits our ability to predict regeneration niches and weakens global models largely based on temperate ecosystems. To address this gap, we introduce the Tropical Seed Trait Database (TSTD), an open-access repository spanning the full ecological spectrum of tropical seeds. The TSTD is conceived as a community-driven repository of primary data contributed directly by data owners, rather than as a secondary aggregation of global databases. It was built through contributions from ecologists working across all tropical regions, reached through direct contact, and its first version compiles 78 datasets, totaling 137 583 records across 44 functional traits. Covering 5115 species in 33 countries, with the Neotropics overrepresented, the TSTD marks a crucial step toward more inclusive, globally representative trait databases that can open multiple research avenues.
KW - big data
KW - plant regeneration
KW - regeneration niche
KW - seed ecological spectrum
KW - seed ecology
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/105039917732
U2 - 10.1111/nph.71268
DO - 10.1111/nph.71268
M3 - Article
C2 - 42144817
AN - SCOPUS:105039917732
SN - 0028-646X
VL - 251
SP - 945
EP - 958
JO - New Phytologist
JF - New Phytologist
IS - 3
ER -