This is perhaps an unconventional use of the r-sig-phylo mailing list. Rather than asking for advice on how to do an analysis, I am enlisting the expertise of the community to try and actually help do the analysis. If you have a few seconds, I would really appreciate it if you could help us out.
Woody versus herbaceous is one of the major axes of life history variation in plants. We sought to find the answer to the seemingly simple question: what percentage of plant species in the world are woody? We asked a small group of botanists this question and got an extraordinarily wide variety of answers. In addition to tallying up the species numbers, we (here "we" refers to myself along with Rich Fitzjohn, Amy Zanne, Will Cornwell and others involved with our NESCent working group: "Tempo and Mode of Plant Trait Evolution") thought it would be interesting to survey biology-types to see if a general consensus answer exists. Please take a couple of seconds to fill out our questionnaire. Thanks! Answer coming out soon in a journal near you. Questionnaire is here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform? formkey=dDBDOXpUeGpXSWJESmV0TjNrWHFEMUE6MQ Thanks a lot, Matt, Rich, Will and Amy
