Table 4.

Structure of the contexts table, containing observations of contextual characteristics associated with information in traits.

key	value
dataset_id	Primary identifier for each study contributed into AusTraits; most often these are scientific papers, books, or online resources. By default should be name of first author and year of publication, e.g. ‘Falster_2005’.
context_name	Name of contextual senario where individual was sampled. Cross-references to identical columns in ‘contexts’ and ‘traits’.
context_property	The contextual characteristic being recorded. Name should include units of measurement, e.g. ‘CO2 concentration (ppm)’.
value	Measured value.