The propensity of plant tissues to burn (i.e. their flammability) is a key trait to understand fire regimes in many ecosystems across the globe. Measuring plant flammability under laboratory conditions allows us to improve both our understanding of plant evolutionary processes and modelling tools for simulating fire hazard and behaviour. Plant flammability has been studied from different but complementary disciplines (e.g. physics, chemistry, ecology, evolution, forestry). However, information is scattered and standardized terminology is lacking, which slows down the progress of research on plant flammability. Here we provide an open access global database on plant flammability traits measured under laboratory conditions aiming to: (a) identify the diversity of methodologies to measure plant flammability under laboratory conditions; (b) standardize the associated terminology; and (c) find geographical, ecological, and taxonomic gaps in our knowledge on plant flammability. We hope this database will stimulate transdisciplinary research and provide useful information to better cope with an increasingly flammable planet.

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FLAMITS：植物可燃性状的全球数据库

植物组织燃烧的倾向（即其可燃性）是了解全球许多生态系统火灾状况的关键特征。在实验室条件下测量植物的可燃性使我们能够提高对植物进化过程和模拟火灾危险和行为的建模工具的理解。植物可燃性的研究来自不同但互补的学科（例如物理、化学、生态学、进化论、林业）。然而，信息分散、缺乏标准化术语，阻碍了植物可燃性研究的进展。在这里，我们提供了一个关于在实验室条件下测量的植物可燃性特征的开放获取全球数据库，旨在：（a）确定在实验室条件下测量植物可燃性的方法的多样性； (b) 使相关术语标准化； (c) 找出我们在植物可燃性方面的知识中的地理、生态和分类学差距。我们希望这个数据库能够刺激跨学科研究，并提供有用的信息，以更好地应对日益易燃的地球。