International workshop on the world-wide largest database on functional plant traits (TRY)

New developments of the TRY initiative and how the exchange of plant trait data can be optimized and disseminated was discussed at the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) in Leipzig, Germany, from September 3-5, 2013. 

The international workshop entitled 'Quantifying and scaling global plant trait diversity' was hosted by Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, DIVERSITAS and the synthesis center sDIV which is integrated in iDiv.

(For more information on the German press release, please see the German pages)