Fig 1. Selected biodiversity data types, arranged according to their primary domain (here, species distributions versus functional traits) and informational resolution (disaggregated versus aggregated).

Projects that integrate global plant diversity data are often domain-specific (e.g., Map of Life [24]; TRY [7]) or focus on the disaggregated end of the data spectrum (e.g., GBIF [6], BIEN [26]). Complementing the ecological data landscape with aggregated data (e.g., GIFT [28]) creates strong synergies and facilitates biodiversity data integration across domains and resolutions. BIEN, Botanical Information Network and Ecology Network; GBIF, Global Biodiversity Information Facility; GIFT, Global Inventory of Floras and Traits.