ae7bc525-6358-4568-b8d1-b72686b3d575 1.1 Traits Computation 2021-05-06 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. Elena Stanca Italian Agency for the Environmental Prevention and Protection · Centro Regionale Mare (CRM)- Bari e.stanca@arpa.puglia.it Francesco Cozzoli Institute of Research on Terrestrial Ecosystems (IRET), National Research Council (CNR) francesco.cozzoli@cnr.it Lucia Vaira LifeWatch ERIC Service Centre lucia.vaira@lifewatch.eu Maria Teresa Manca LifeWatch ERIC Service Centre mteresa.manca@lifewatch.eu Jessica Titocci Institute of Research on Terrestrial Ecosystems (IRET), National Research Council (CNR) jessica.titocci@iret.cnr.it Ilaria Rosati Institute of Research on Terrestrial Ecosystems (IRET), National Research Council (CNR) ilaria.rosati@cnr.it Alberto Basset University of Salento, LifeWatch Italy alberto.basset@unisalento.it https://metadatacatalogue.lifewatch.eu/geonetwork/srv/api/records/ae7bc525-6358-4568-b8d1-b72686b3d575/attachments/traits%20computation.jpg traits computation.jpg https://metadatacatalogue.lifewatch.eu/srv/api/records/ae7bc525-6358-4568-b8d1-b72686b3d575/attachments/traits%20computation.png functional traits phytoplankton morphological traits biovolume surface area surface-volume ratio cell carbon content density carbon content R code LifeWatch Italy 2021 Metadata records are freely available under a Public Domain (CC0 1.0) License; while the service is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License. data analysis data processing https://helpdesk.lifewatchitaly.eu/ https://www.phytovre.lifewatchitaly.eu/traits-computation/ WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link Link to the service https://www.phytovre.lifewatchitaly.eu/phyto-data-template/ WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link Phytoplankton Data Template