fire_exposure_level

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• Label: Fire exposure level
• Entity URI: https://w3id.org/APD/traits/trait_0030651
• Type: categorical
• Definition: A fire response trait indicating small-scale variation in plant [PO:0000003] habitat [ENVO:01000739] or growing season that protects the plant's shoot systems [PO:0009006] or root system [PO:0025025] from exposure [NCIT:C17941] to fire [ENVO:01000786] or being damaged (scorched) by fire, when a fire occurs nearby.;Trait indicating habitat (or microhabitat) variation that protects the shoot or root system of some taxa from being exposed to fire and scorched by the fire, even when a fire burns nearby.
• Additional comments: None
• Allowed values:

  value	description
  aquatic_taxon	Plants rarely or never experience fires because they are aquatic.
  fire_avoidance_among_rocks	Plants rarely experience fires because their habitat is restricted to rocky outcrops or rock pavement.
  fire_avoidance_in_swamp	Plants rarely experience fires because their habitat is usually saturated, but populations can be catastrophically impacted during severe droughts when the swamps dry out.
  fire_avoidance_near_water	Plants rarely or never experience fires because their habitat is close to a body of water.
  seasonal_fire_avoidance	Plants avoid fire by only have above-ground parts during seasons when fire is rare or absent, but populations can be catastrophically impacted if fire occurs during an atypical season.

See the AusTraits Plant Dictionary (https://w3id.org/APD/traits/trait_0030651) for additional information about this trait.

Coverage

For this trait, AusTraits includes a total of 61 records. This includes:

• data for 53 species.
• data for 19 families.
• data from 3 datasets (see the portal Citations tab for a list of sources)