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Who is this for?
FRED is for plant scientists and modelers to contribute their work, join together, and answer challenging questions that will shape the future of ecological innovation.
“If you can analyze root, wood, and leaf traits together, you can potentially understand the entire plant or, in a perfect world, could even predict what a root will do based on a leaf or wood characteristic.”
Colleeen Iversen
“One of our biggest goals is to develop an understanding of how a root trait would change when you go from a cold ecosystem to a hot, tropical one, or from a really fertile soil to a nutrient-poor soil.”
Luke mccormack
“Here, phylogenetically
or taxonomically constrained gap-filling algorithms have proven
powerful in allowing the characterization of species mean traits and trait–trait correlations.”
Jans Kattge
How to Get Involved
Visit FRED. Contribute data. Collaborate. Research.