TRY

UNDER CONSTRUCTION

15+ million

Trait records

305,000+

Plant Taxa

15+

Years in Operation

ABOUT US

TRY is a free, open-access database to plant trait data. Future Earth, the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, and iDiv run the TRY network of scientists and researchers to map global plant traits.

Important Links

Data Portal

Search by trait, species, trait/species, dataset, or region

Contribute Data

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TRY Archive

Access older versions of TRY

R Package

rtry to process files in the TRY database

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Contacts

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Invaluable Resource

Here, the TRY plant database is highlighted as the most comprehensive archive of global plant data, with open access to the public.

Lauchlan Fraser, 2019

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