fire_fuel_bed_bulk_density

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• Label: Fuel bed bulk density
• Entity URI: https://w3id.org/APD/traits/trait_0030710
• Type: numeric
• Definition: Fuel bed bulk density (volume density [PATO:0001353]), which is the ratio [PATO:0001470] of the mass [PATO:0000125] of the fuel bed divided by the fuel bed volume [PATO:0000918]; the term `fuel bed` refers to the accumulated plant litter [ENVO:01000628] on the ground [SWEET:realmSoil/Ground], as this is the fuel [CHEBI:33292] that is burnt in a ground fire [ENVO:01000786].;The density of the fuel bed, the plant litter accumulated on the ground. It is calculated as the ratio of the mass of the fuel bed to the fuel bed volume. This trait should be measured on plant litter from a single taxon.
• Additional comments: In wildland environments it will be difficult to measure this trait on an individual taxon and fuel bed will instead be a "community level" trait. Therefore, this trait will generally be used to document fuel bed bulk density in experimental situations.
• units: g/cm3
• allowable range: 0.001 - 1 g/cm3

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Coverage

For this trait, AusTraits includes a total of 145 records. This includes:

• data for 25 species.
• data for 13 families.
• data from 1 datasets (see the portal Citations tab for a list of sources)