Metadata Catalogue Metadata Catalogue https://metadatacatalogue.lifewatch.eu/ https://metadatacatalogue.lifewatch.eu//srv/eng/portal.opensearch https://metadatacatalogue.lifewatch.eu//srv/eng/rdf.search?any= eng Continents, countries, sea regions of the world. https://metadatacatalogue.lifewatch.eu//srv/eng/thesaurus.download?ref=external.place.regions ecoportal.fos_1.rdf https://metadatacatalogue.lifewatch.eu//srv/eng/thesaurus.download?ref=external.ecoportal.fos application/xml XML text/html HTML ae7bc525-6358-4568-b8d1-b72686b3d575 Traits Computation The Traits Computation web service provides a user-friendly Graphical User Interface (GUI) that allow researchers to run a workflow wrapped into R code for the computation of morphological and demographic traits, such as biovolume, surface area, surface-volume ratio, density, cell carbon content, density, carbon content and total biovolume. The service works on datasets structured according to the Phytoplankton Data Template that can be selected by the GUI or uploaded by the researchers. The input file is in CSV format with some mandatory fields according to the calculation type. Before selecting or uploading the input file, users have to specify some parameters (e.g., the calculation type, and the traits to be computed). The web service provides as output a file in .csv format, including all input data and the new calculated traits. functional traits phytoplankton morphological traits biovolume surface area surface-volume ratio cell carbon content density carbon content R code WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link https://www.phytovre.lifewatchitaly.eu/traits-computation/ WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link https://www.phytovre.lifewatchitaly.eu/phyto-data-template/ license Fully Open Access Italian Agency for the Environmental Prevention and Protection · Centro Regionale Mare (CRM)- Bari Institute of Research on Terrestrial Ecosystems (IRET), National Research Council (CNR) LifeWatch ERIC Service Centre University of Salento, LifeWatch Italy Elena Stanca Francesco Cozzoli Lucia Vaira Maria Teresa Manca Jessica Titocci Ilaria Rosati Alberto Basset