leaf_water_use_efficiency_intrinsic

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• Label: Intrinsic water use efficiency (WUEi)
• Entity URI: https://w3id.org/APD/traits/trait_0020761
• Type: numeric
• Definition: The ratio [PATO:0001470] of a leaf's [PO:0025034] photosynthetic rate [TO:0001015] to its stomatal conductance [EnvThes:21211], with photosynthetic rate and stomatal conductance determined by gas exchange measurements.;The ratio of photosynthetic rate (A; CO2 assimilation rate) to stomatal conductance (gs; gaseous diffusion), with photosynthetic rate and stomatal conductance determined from gas exchange measurements.
• Additional comments: None
• units: umol{CO2}/mmol{H2O}
• allowable range: 0.001 - 2 umol{CO2}/mmol{H2O}

See the AusTraits Plant Dictionary (https://w3id.org/APD/traits/trait_0020761) for additional information about this trait.

Coverage

For this trait, AusTraits includes a total of 688 records. This includes:

• data for 223 species.
• data for 59 families.
• data from 8 datasets (see the portal Citations tab for a list of sources)