SeagrassTraitDB: a seagrasses traits database

Seagrasses are the only monocotyledonous flowering plants (angiosperms) which grow in marine environments. Seagrasses are found from shallow salty to brackish waters and inhabit environments from the tropics to the Arctic. • With this web service we aim to develop the first database integrating, world-wide, seagrass trait data following community standards for metadata description and plant ontology definitions. • The service currently supports the upload of 206 seagrass traits and associated metadata. Users are responsible for their data and access to their data (http://seagrasses.ccmar.ualg.pt/).