A Thesaurus of Plant Characteristics for Ecology and Evolution
TOP, a Thesaurus Of Plant characteristics, defines standards for a functional approach to plant diversity by stabilizing the terminology for concepts widely used in ecology and evolution. TOP provides names, definitions, formal units and synonyms for more than 700 plant characteristics: plant traits and environmental associations.
TOP can be searched via :
- FACETED SEARCH, filtering the available information by grouping terms into facets
- HIERARCHY SEARCH, providing a tree that progressively unfolds and a search field where terms or TOP identifiers can be entered
- INDEX, a complete alphabetical list of all concepts defined in TOP
Regular updates of TOP are planned based on community involvement.
Contacts: Eric Garnier, Jens Kattge
Contributors to TOP: Eric Garnier, Jens Kattge, Marie-Angélique Laporte, Ulrike Stahl, Stefan Klotz, Ingolf Kühn, Lutz Maicher, Isabelle Mougenot, Farshid Ahrestani, Bernard Amiaud, Gerhard Bönisch, Dan Bunker, Hans Cornelissen, Sandra Díaz, Brian Enquist, Sophie Gachet, Pedro Jaureguiberry, Michael Kleyer, Baptiste Laporte, Sandra Lavorel, Natalia Pérez-Harguindeguy, Hendrik Poorter, Mark Schildhauer, Bill Shipley, Cyrille Violle, Evan Weiher, Christian Wirth and Ian Wright
