fire_smoulder_duration

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• Label: Leaf smoulder duration
• Entity URI: https://w3id.org/APD/traits/trait_0030713
• Type: numeric
• Definition: A fire response trait which is the duration [PATO:0001309] of the portion of fire [ENVO:01000786]-induced combustion [NCIT:C157201] process from the time when a flame [ENVO:01000789] is no longer visible until smoulder combustion ends.;Smoulder duration for a single leaf, which is the time from the end of the last visible flame until the glowing phase dies out.
• 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: s
• allowable range: 0.1 - 1000 s

See the AusTraits Plant Dictionary (https://w3id.org/APD/traits/trait_0030713) for additional information about this trait.

Coverage

For this trait, AusTraits includes a total of 1,063 records. This includes:

• data for 39 species.
• data for 13 families.
• data from 2 datasets (see the portal Citations tab for a list of sources)