fire_fuel_consumption

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• Label: Fuel consumption by fire
• Entity URI: https://w3id.org/APD/traits/trait_0030711
• Type: numeric
• Definition: For a given taxon [NCIT:C40098], the proportion [PATO:0001470] of plant biomass [ENVO:01000155] (fuel [CHEBI:33292]) that is consumed by a fire [ENVO:01000786].;Proportion of available plant biomass (live and dead) that is consumed by fire. This trait should be measured on biomass from a single taxon.
• Additional comments: In wildland environments it will be difficult to measure this trait on an individual taxon; it will instead be a "community level" trait. Therefore, this trait will generally be used to document fuel consumption in experimental situations.
• units: g/g
• allowable range: 0.1 - 100 g/g

See the AusTraits Plant Dictionary (https://w3id.org/APD/traits/trait_0030711) for additional information about this trait.

Coverage

For this trait, AusTraits includes a total of 98 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)