The Global Spectra-Trait Initiative: A database of paired leaf spectroscopy and functional traits associated with leaf photosynthetic capacity (v1.0.0)
The Global Spectra-Trait Initiative (GSTI) aims to generate generalizable spectra trait models using reflectance data to predict leaf traits associated with the photosynthesis capacity of leaves. It comprises a synthesized dataset of leaf trait data, input datasets and code. Leaf traits include the maximum carboxylation rate of rubisco (Vcmax), the maximum electron transport rate (Jmax), the dark respiration, as well as the prediction of leaf nitrogen, leaf mass per area (LMA), and leaf water content (LWC). The dataset comprises >7500 paired observations from around 400 species from a broad range of biomes. This dataset comprises a zip file of the GSTI GitHub repository (https://github.com/plantphys/gsti), the synthesized database (.csv) and database metadata files. This dataset was updated on 2025-12-12 with minor edits to mirror the accepted manuscript version and GitHub release (Version 1.0.0 (ESSD accepted version)). Edits included minor changes to the project documentation on GitHub and removal of 12 duplicate entries from the database.
Authors
- Julien Lamour (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4410-507X)
- Christopher Y. S. Wong (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9608-9916)
- Jean‐Baptiste Féret (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0151-1334)
- Adam R. Martin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7207-4004)
- Isabelle Maréchaux (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5401-0197)
- Mallory L. Barnes (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8528-6981)
- R. C. Oliveira (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9277-2627)
- Han Wang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1771-8134)
- Alain Paquette (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1048-9674)
- Peng Fu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1568-1518)
- Xiaojin Qian (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3447-9158)
- Patrick Heuret (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7956-0451)
- To‐Chia Ting (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5273-7520)
- Loren P. Albert (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9674-6071)
- Josep Peñuelas (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7215-0150)
- Iolanda Filella (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6262-5733)
- Juan M. Posada (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7794-9300)
- Antonia Débora Lima Plácido
- Etsushi Kumagai (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4724-489X)
- Michael Alonzo (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9409-2740)
- Owen K. Atkin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1041-5202)
- Katherine Meacham‐Hensold (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1198-5389)
- Alexander W. Cheesman (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3931-5766)
- Robert T. Furbank (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8700-6613)
- Thu Ya Kyaw (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2385-2455)
- Shengbiao Wu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4569-6366)
- Daisy C. Souza (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5522-6494)
- Joshua S. Caplan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4624-2956)
- Romà Ogaya (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4927-8479)
- Dedi Yang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1705-7823)
- Vijayaparthasarathi Vijayakumar (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0744-7986)
- Zhengbing Yan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5028-8167)
- Leeladarshini Sujeeun (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9254-7614)
- Andreas P.M. Weber (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0970-4672)
- Diane Wang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2290-3257)
- Kim Ely (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3915-001X)
- Holly Croft
- John R. Evans (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1379-3532)
- Christopher M. Montes (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7295-3092)
- Joan Llusià (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0164-2737)
- Claire Fortunel (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8367-1605)
- Joy Ojo
- Urte Schlüter (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9134-6511)
- Shan Kothari (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9445-5548)
- Jérôme Chave (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7766-1347)
- Ilona Clocher
- Viridiana Silva‐Pérez (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5653-1802)
- Kaiyu Guan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3499-6382)
- Onoriode Coast (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5013-4715)
- Troy S. Magney (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9033-0024)
- Jing Wang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0116-6179)
- Kelvin Acebron (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8523-0256)
- Christopher E. Doughty (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3985-7960)
- Milagros Rodríguez‐Catón (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9608-0150)
- Kenneth Davidson (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5745-9689)
- Clément Stahl (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5411-1169)
- Heidi J. Renninger (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2485-9835)
- Courtney M. Siegert (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9804-3858)
- Fengqi Wu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6512-6830)
- Jeremiah Anderson (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8925-5226)
- N. Besson (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9248-6252)
- Charles D. Southwick (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0002-7367-1158)
- J. Wu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0551-0531)
- Carl J. Bernacchi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2397-425X)
- Shuwen Liu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0004-0916-2257)
- Shawn Paul Serbin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4136-8971)
- Giacomo Sellan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5606-3957)
- Nicolas Barbier (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5323-3866)
- Yanjun Su (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7931-339X)
- Boya Cui (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0004-2089-8417)
- Zhengfei Guo (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8806-1307)
- Sabrina Coste (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3948-4375)
- Elizabeth A. Ainsworth (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3199-8999)
- Bruno Gimenez (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7336-9448)
- Sheng Wang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3385-3109)
- Lingli Liu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5696-3151)
- Maria Garcia (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3393-514X)
- Angela C. Burnett (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2678-9842)
- Alistair Rogers
- Yingyi Zhao
- Liangyun Liu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7987-037X)
- Guangqin Song
- Xin Wang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0004-2370-0779)
- Marcelo Vilas-Boas
- Clément Dauvissat
- Andrés Rojas-González (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0008-0264-1529)
- Vicente Vásquez (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2367-1774)
- David Heckman
- Isaac Marney
Institutions
- University of New Brunswick (CA)
- Australian National University (AU)
- Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ES)
- Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (US)
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory (US)
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)
- Goddard Space Flight Center (US)
- Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (FR)
- Oregon State University (US)
- Louisiana State University Agricultural Center (US)
- University of Wisconsin–Madison (US)
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (US)
- University of Alberta (CA)
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (US)
- Sun Yat-sen University (CN)
- Université du Québec à Montréal (CA)
- Université Fédérale de Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées (FR)
- American University (US)
- Ministry of Agriculture Forestry and Fisheries (KH)
- University of Toronto (CA)
- Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (BR)
- Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN)
- Universidad Nacional (CR)
- Université de Montpellier (FR)
- Northern Arizona University (US)
- Aarhus University (DK)
- AgroParisTech (FR)
- University of New England (US)
- University of French Guiana (GF)
- Temple College (US)
- Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications (CN)
- Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'Environnement (FR)
- Instituto de Bioquímica Vegetal y Fotosíntesis (ES)
- Agroécologie (FR)
- Institute of Chemical Engineering (PL)
- National Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences (JP)
- Cluster of Excellence on Plant Sciences (DE)
- Aerospace Information Research Institute (CN)
- Temple University, Japan (JP)
- ARC Centre of Excellence for Transformative Meta-Optical Systems (AU)
- Plant (United States) (US)
- Department of Forestry (MW)
- Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis (US)
- Bayer (France) (FR)
- Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (DE)
- Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (US)
- Indiana University (US)
- University of California, Davis (US)
- Temple University (US)
- James Cook University (AU)
- University of Hong Kong (HK)
- Universidad del Rosario (CO)
- University of Sheffield (GB)
- Mississippi State University (US)
- Tsinghua University (CN)
Publication Details
- Journal
- OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information)
- Published
- 2025-01-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.15485/2530733
- Primary Topic
- Remote Sensing in Agriculture
- Type
- article