MOSAIC

MOSAIC provides an open-access trait database that integrates species-level trait records, species-level phylogenies, and population-specific climate data and interoperates with COMADRE, COMPADRE, and PADRINO to support comparative demography and functional trait research.

Key Features:

• Trait Data Integration: v. 1.0.0 contains trait information for 300 animal and plant species across 14 fields: biomass, height, growth determination, regeneration, sexual dimorphism, mating systems, hermaphroditism, sequential hermaphroditism, dispersal capacity, type of dispersal, mode of dispersal, dispersal classes, volancy, and aquatic habitat dependency.
• Phylogenetic Data: Provides species-level phylogenies for 1,359 species to support evolutionary and comparative analyses.
• Climate Data Integration: Incorporates population-specific climate data linked to demographic and trait records.
• Interoperability: Integrates and interoperates with existing demographic databases COMADRE, COMPADRE, and PADRINO to enhance dataset interoperability.
• Digitization and Curation: Includes digitized and curated trait records compiled from existing datasets and primary literature sources.

Scientific Applications:

• Comparative Demography: Enables standardized cross-species comparisons of demographic rates and functional traits.
• Trait-focused Analyses: Facilitates investigation of both well-quantified traits and less-understood traits such as growth determination and modularity.
• Environmental Response Studies: Supports analysis of how traits and demography relate to environmental variation using linked climate data.

Methodology:

Meticulous digitization and curation combined existing datasets with newly sourced trait records extracted from primary literature.