leaf_phenology
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- Label: Leaf phenology
- Entity URI: https://w3id.org/APD/traits/trait_0030024
- Type: categorical
- Definition: A whole plant [PO:0000003] phenotype [NCIT:C16977] trait characterising whether there is a part of the year when a plant sheds all leaves [PO:0025034] (shedability [PATO:0001729]) and the environmental conditions [ENVO:01000203] that cause a plant to shed its leaves.;Trait indicating whether a plant retains a leaf canopy throughout the year and what environmental cues are associated with canopy shedding.
- Additional comments: None
- Allowed values:
value description brevi_deciduous Plant briefly loses its entire leaf canopy but flushes a new leaf canopy almost simultaneously to leaf loss. cold_deciduous Plant loses its entire leaf canopy for part of the year, in response to cold. deciduous Plant loses its entire leaf canopy for part of the year, in response to either drought or cold. drought_deciduous Plant loses its entire leaf canopy for part of the year, in response to drought. evergreen Plant retains a leaf canopy throughout the year. facultative_drought_deciduous Plant sometimes loses its leaf canopy for part of the year, in response to drought. semi_deciduous Plant thins, but does not entirely lose, its leaf canopy in response to an environmental cue, usually drought.
See the AusTraits Plant Dictionary (https://w3id.org/APD/traits/trait_0030024) for additional information about this trait.
Coverage
For this trait, AusTraits includes a total of 8,832 records. This includes:
- data for 6,796 species.
- data for 207 families.
- data from 31 datasets (see the portal Citations tab for a list of sources)