fire_rate_of_spread

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• Label: Fire rate of spread
• Entity URI: https://w3id.org/APD/traits/trait_0030712
• Type: numeric
• Definition: For a given taxon [NCIT:C40098], the horizontal [PATO:0001855] speed [PATO:0000008] of fire [ENVO:01000786] movement [NCIT:C37994].;The horizontal rate of fire spread.
• 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 rates of fire spread in experimental situations.
• units: cm/s
• allowable range: 0.01 - 1 cm/s

See the AusTraits Plant Dictionary (https://w3id.org/APD/traits/trait_0030712) for additional information about this trait.

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)