To cite package ‘traits’ in publications use:

  LeBauer D, Chamberlain S, Foster Z, Bartomeus I, Black C, Harris D
  (2024). _traits: Species Trait Data from Around the Web_. R package
  version 0.5.1, , <https://github.com/ropensci/traits>.

A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is

  @Manual{,
    title = {traits: Species Trait Data from Around the Web},
    author = {David LeBauer and Scott Chamberlain and Zachary Foster and Ignasi Bartomeus and Chris Black and David Harris},
    year = {2024},
    note = {R package version 0.5.1, 
},
    url = {https://github.com/ropensci/traits},
  }