The authors note that the data are published under a CC-BY 4.0 license and can thus be used freely with appropriate attribution. We suggest that data presented here and accessed through the this OSF, including future additions to the chemical trait data, be cited to the accompanying data paper in Scientific Data (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-023-02467-7).
We appreciate being contacted for advice or collaboration, if relevant, by users of these data. In cases where our data make up > 10% of the data used in downstream publications we anticipate that appropriately acknowledging our contributions would result in an invitation for collaboration.
The data were collected by students and course leaders as part of one in a series of International Plant Functional Courses (PFTCs) run in China, Peru, Svalbard, Norway, and South Africa (https://plantfunctionaltraitscourses.w.uib.no/)