We introduce the AusTraits database - a compilation of measurements of plant traits for taxa in the Australian flora (hereafter AusTraits). AusTraits synthesises data on 375 traits across 29230 taxa from field campaigns, published literature, taxonomic monographs, and individual taxa descriptions. Traits vary in scope from physiological measures of performance (e.g.~photosynthetic gas exchange, water-use efficiency) to morphological parameters (e.g.~leaf area, seed mass, plant height) which link to aspects of ecological variation. AusTraits contains curated and harmonised individual-, species- and genus-level observations coupled to, where available, contextual information on site properties. This data descriptor provides information on version 2.1.0 of AusTraits which contains data for 937243 trait-by-taxa combinations. We envision AusTraits as an ongoing collaborative initiative for easily archiving and sharing trait data to increase our collective understanding of the Australian flora.

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AusTraits：澳大利亚植物区系的精选植物性状数据库

我们介绍了AusTraits数据库-澳大利亚植物区系（以下简称AusTraits）植物群性状的测量指标汇编。AusTraits综合了来自野外活动，已发表的文献，分类学专着和单个分类群描述的29230个分类群中375个性状的数据。性状的范围从性能的生理指标（例如光合气体交换，水分利用效率）到形态参数（例如叶面积，种子质量，株高），这些参数与生态变化相关。AusTraits包含精心策划和统一的个人，物种和属级别的观察结果，并在可用的情况下，还包括场地属性的上下文信息。此数据描述符提供有关AusTraits版本2.1.0的信息，其中包含937243个特征-类群组合的数据。