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Data description paper
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09 Jan 2026
Data description paper |
| 09 Jan 2026
| 09 Jan 2026
The Global Spectra-Trait Initiative: A database of paired leaf spectroscopy and functional traits associated with leaf photosynthetic capacity
Centre de Recherche sur la Biodiversité et l'Environnement (CRBE), Université de Toulouse, CNRS, IRD, Toulouse INP, Université Toulouse 3 – Paul Sabatier (UT3), Toulouse, France
Shawn P. Serbin
Biospheric Sciences Laboratory (BSL), Code 618 NASA Goddard Space Flight Center 8800 Greenbelt Road Greenbelt, MD 20771 USA
Alistair Rogers
Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley CA 94720, USA
Kelvin T. Acebron
Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Edgewater MD 21403, USA
Elizabeth Ainsworth
University of Illinois Urbana, Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
Loren P. Albert
Oregon State University Department of Forest Ecosystems & Society, Corvallis, OR 97333, USA
Michael Alonzo
Department of Environmental Science, American University, Washington, DC 20016, USA
Jeremiah Anderson
Biospheric Sciences Laboratory (BSL), Code 618 NASA Goddard Space Flight Center 8800 Greenbelt Road Greenbelt, MD 20771 USA
Owen K. Atkin
ARC Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology, Research School of Biology, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia
Division of Plant Sciences, Research School of Biology, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia
Nicolas Barbier
AMAP, Univ Montpellier, CIRAD, CNRS, INRAE, IRD, Montpellier, France
Mallory L. Barnes
The O'Neill School of Public & Environmental Affairs, Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, IN, USA
Carl J. Bernacchi
USDA-ARS Photosynthesis Research Unit, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
University of Illinois Urbana, Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
Ninon Besson
AMAP, Univ Montpellier, CIRAD, CNRS, INRAE, IRD, Montpellier, France
UMR EcoFoG, AgroParisTech, Cirad, CNRS, INRAE, Université des Antilles, Université de la Guyane, Kourou, France
Angela C. Burnett
Advanced Research + Invention Agency, London, UK
Joshua S. Caplan
Department of Architecture & Environmental Design, Temple University, Ambler PA 19010, USA
Jérôme Chave
Centre de Recherche sur la Biodiversité et l'Environnement (CRBE), Université de Toulouse, CNRS, IRD, Toulouse INP, Université Toulouse 3 – Paul Sabatier (UT3), Toulouse, France
Alexander W. Cheesman
College of Science & Engineering, James Cook University, Cairns, Queensland 4878, Australia
Ilona Clocher
AMAP, Univ Montpellier, CIRAD, CNRS, INRAE, IRD, Montpellier, France
UMR EcoFoG, AgroParisTech, Cirad, CNRS, INRAE, Université des Antilles, Université de la Guyane, Kourou, France
Onoriode Coast
School of Environmental and Rural Science, University of New England, Armidale, NSW 2351, Australia
Sabrina Coste
UMR EcoFoG, AgroParisTech, Cirad, CNRS, INRAE, Université des Antilles, Université de la Guyane, Kourou, France
Holly Croft
Plants, Photosynthesis and Soil, School of Biosciences, University of Sheffield, South Yorkshire, UK
School of Biosciences, Institute for Sustainable Food, University of Sheffield, South Yorkshire, UK
Boya Cui
Department of Physical and Environmental Sciences, University of Toronto Scarborough, M1C 1A4, Toronto, Canada
Clément Dauvissat
AMAP, Univ Montpellier, CIRAD, CNRS, INRAE, IRD, Montpellier, France
Kenneth J. Davidson
American Forests, Washington, DC 20005, USA
Christopher Doughty
School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, USA
Kim S. Ely
Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley CA 94720, USA
John R. Evans
ARC Centre of Excellence for Translational Photosynthesis, Research school of Biology, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia
Jean-Baptiste Féret
TETIS, INRAE, AgroParisTech, CIRAD, CNRS, Université Montpellier, Montpellier, France
Iolanda Filella
Center for Ecological Research and Forestry Applications (CREAF) – National Research Council (CSIC), Edifici C, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, 08193 Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain
Claire Fortunel
AMAP, Univ Montpellier, CIRAD, CNRS, INRAE, IRD, Montpellier, France
Peng Fu
School of Plant, Environmental and Soil Sciences, Louisiana State University and Louisiana State University AgCenter, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, USA
Robert T. Furbank
ARC Centre of Excellence for Translational Photosynthesis, Research school of Biology, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia
Maquelle Garcia
Oregon State University Department of Forest Ecosystems & Society, Corvallis, OR 97333, USA
Bruno O. Gimenez
Department of Geography, University of California – Berkeley (UCB), 507 McCone Hall #4740, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
Forest Management Laboratory, National Institute of Amazonian Research (INPA), Av. Andre Araújo, 69060-082, Manaus-AM, Brazil
Kaiyu Guan
Agroecosystem Sustainability Center, Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and Environment, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
Department of Nature Resources and Environmental Sciences, College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
Zhengfei Guo
School of Biological Sciences, University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong, China
David Heckmann
Bayer Crop Science, 40789 Monheim am Rhein, Germany
Patrick Heuret
AMAP, Univ Montpellier, CIRAD, CNRS, INRAE, IRD, Montpellier, France
Marney Isaac
Department of Physical and Environmental Sciences, University of Toronto Scarborough, M1C 1A4, Toronto, Canada
Shan Kothari
Department of Renewable Resources, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2E3, Canada
Etsushi Kumagai
Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences, NARO, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8604, Japan
Thu Ya Kyaw
Department of Environmental Science, American University, Washington, DC 20016, USA
Liangyun Liu
Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100094, China
Lingli Liu
State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiangshan, Beijing 100093, China
Shuwen Liu
Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1630 Linden Drive, Madison, WI 53706, USA
School of Biological Sciences, University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong, China
Joan Llusià
Center for Ecological Research and Forestry Applications (CREAF) – National Research Council (CSIC), Edifici C, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, 08193 Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain
Troy Magney
Department of Plant Sciences, University of California, Davis, California, USA
Isabelle Maréchaux
AMAP, Univ Montpellier, CIRAD, CNRS, INRAE, IRD, Montpellier, France
Adam R. Martin
Department of Physical and Environmental Sciences, University of Toronto Scarborough, M1C 1A4, Toronto, Canada
Katherine Meacham-Hensold
Carl R Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA
Christopher M. Montes
USDA-ARS Photosynthesis Research Unit, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
University of Illinois Urbana, Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
Romà Ogaya
Center for Ecological Research and Forestry Applications (CREAF) – National Research Council (CSIC), Edifici C, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, 08193 Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain
Joy Ojo
School of Environmental and Rural Science, University of New England, Armidale, NSW 2351, Australia
Regison Oliveira
Forest Management Laboratory, National Institute of Amazonian Research (INPA), Av. Andre Araújo, 69060-082, Manaus-AM, Brazil
Alain Paquette
Centre for Forest Research, Université du Québec à Montréal, Montréal, Canada
Josep Peñuelas
Center for Ecological Research and Forestry Applications (CREAF) – National Research Council (CSIC), Edifici C, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, 08193 Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain
Antonia Debora Placido
Forest Management Laboratory, National Institute of Amazonian Research (INPA), Av. Andre Araújo, 69060-082, Manaus-AM, Brazil
Juan M. Posada
Biology Department, Carrera 24 # 63C – 69, Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá, Colombia
Xiaojin Qian
School of Internet of Things, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing 210003, China
Heidi J. Renninger
Department of Forestry, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS 39762, USA
Milagros Rodriguez-Caton
Institute for Snow, Glaciers and Environmental Research, IANIGLA-CONICET, Mendoza, Argentina
Department of Plant Sciences, University of California, Davis, California, USA
Andrés Rojas-González
Laboratorio de Ecología Funcional y Ecosistemas Tropicales (LEFET), Escuela de Ciencias Biológicas, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad Nacional, Heredia, Costa Rica
Urte Schlüter
Institute for Plant Biochemistry, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany
Giacomo Sellan
UMR EcoFoG, AgroParisTech, Cirad, CNRS, INRAE, Université des Antilles, Université de la Guyane, Kourou, France
Courtney M. Siegert
Department of Forestry, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS 39762, USA
Viridiana Silva-Perez
ARC Centre of Excellence for Translational Photosynthesis, Research school of Biology, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia
Guangqin Song
School of Biological Sciences, University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong, China
Charles D. Southwick
Oregon State University Department of Forest Ecosystems & Society, Corvallis, OR 97333, USA
Daisy C. Souza
Forest Management Laboratory, National Institute of Amazonian Research (INPA), Av. Andre Araújo, 69060-082, Manaus-AM, Brazil
Clément Stahl
UMR EcoFoG, AgroParisTech, Cirad, CNRS, INRAE, Université des Antilles, Université de la Guyane, Kourou, France
Yanjun Su
State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiangshan, Beijing 100093, China
Leeladarshini Sujeeun
Department of Physical and Environmental Sciences, University of Toronto Scarborough, M1C 1A4, Toronto, Canada
To-Chia Ting
Agronomy Department, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA
Vicente Vasquez
University of Florida, School of Forestry, Fisheries and Geomatics, Gainesville, Florida, USA
Amrutha Vijayakumar
School of Environmental and Rural Science, University of New England, Armidale, NSW 2351, Australia
Marcelo Vilas-Boas
Forest Management Laboratory, National Institute of Amazonian Research (INPA), Av. Andre Araújo, 69060-082, Manaus-AM, Brazil
Diane R. Wang
Agronomy Department, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA
Sheng Wang
Department of Agroecology, Aarhus University, Aarhus 8000, Denmark
Agroecosystem Sustainability Center, Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and Environment, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
Han Wang
Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Earth System Modelling, Department of Earth System Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
Jing Wang
School of Ecology, Shenzhen Campus of Sun Yat-sen University, Shenzhen, Guangdong, 518107, China
Xin Wang
State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiangshan, Beijing 100093, China
Andreas P. M. Weber
Institute for Plant Biochemistry, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany
Cluster of Excellence on Plant Sciences (CEPLAS), Düsseldorf, Germany
Christopher Y. S. Wong
Faculty of Forestry and Environmental Management, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton NB E3B 5A3, Canada
Jin Wu
School of Biological Sciences, University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong, China
Institute for Climate and Carbon Neutrality, University of Hong Kong Kong, Pofulam Road, Hong Kong, China
State Key Laboratory of Agrobiotechnology, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Sha Tin, Hong Kong, China
Fengqi Wu
State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiangshan, Beijing 100093, China
Shengbiao Wu
Future Urbanity and Sustainable Environment (FUSE) Lab, Division of Landscape Architecture, Department of Architecture, Faculty of Architecture, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Zhengbing Yan
State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiangshan, Beijing 100093, China
China National Botanical Garden, Beijing 100093, China
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yuquanlu, Beijing 100049, China
Dedi Yang
Environmental Sciences Division and Climate Change Science Institute, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37830, USA
Yingyi Zhao
School of Biological Sciences, University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong, China
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We present the Global Spectra-Trait Initiative (GSTI), a collaborative repository of paired leaf hyperspectral and gas exchange measurements from diverse ecosystems. This repository provides a unique source of information for creating hyperspectral models for predicting photosynthetic traits and associated leaf traits in terrestrial plants.
We present the Global Spectra-Trait Initiative (GSTI), a collaborative repository of paired leaf...
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