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license: MIT
title: 'traits: Species Trait Data from Around the Web'
version: 0.5.2
identifiers:
- type: doi
  value: 10.32614/CRAN.package.traits
abstract: Species trait data from many sources, including sequence data from 'NCBI'
  (<https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/>), plant traits from 'BETYdb', and data from 'EOL
  Traitbank' and 'Birdlife International'.
authors:
- family-names: LeBauer
  given-names: David
  email: dlebauer@gmail.com
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7228-053X
- family-names: Chamberlain
  given-names: Scott
  email: myrmecocystus@gmail.com
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1444-9135
- family-names: Foster
  given-names: Zachary
- family-names: Bartomeus
  given-names: Ignasi
- family-names: Black
  given-names: Chris
- family-names: Harris
  given-names: David
preferred-citation:
  type: manual
  title: 'traits: Species Trait Data from Around the Web'
  authors:
  - family-names: LeBauer
    given-names: David
    email: dlebauer@gmail.com
    orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7228-053X
  - family-names: Chamberlain
    given-names: Scott
    email: myrmecocystus@gmail.com
    orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1444-9135
  - family-names: Foster
    given-names: Zachary
  - family-names: Bartomeus
    given-names: Ignasi
  - family-names: Black
    given-names: Chris
  - family-names: Harris
    given-names: David
  year: '2025'
  notes: R package version 0.5.2, https://github.com/ropensci/traits, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11224037
  url: https://docs.ropensci.org/traits/
repository: https://ropensci.r-universe.dev
repository-code: https://github.com/ropensci/traits
commit: a6d2f028955edf4c4133a62d1eb4dd85afed2d40
url: https://docs.ropensci.org/traits/
date-released: '2025-04-10'
contact:
- family-names: LeBauer
  given-names: David
  email: dlebauer@gmail.com
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7228-053X
keywords:
- traits
- API
- web-services
- species
- taxonomy
- biodiversity
- ecology
- environmental-data
- species-traits