life_history_ephemeral_class

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• Label: Ephemeral life history class
• Entity URI: https://w3id.org/APD/traits/trait_0030013
• Type: categorical
• Definition: A whole plant [PO:0000003] life history [ECOCORE:00000018] which is, for taxa [NCIT_C40098] that display an ephemeral life history, the environmental conditions [ENVO_01000203] associated with seed germination [GO:0009845] and seedling establishment [EnvThes:20410].;For taxa that display an ephemeral life history, the environmental conditions associated with seed germination and seedling establishment.
• Additional comments: None
• Allowed values:

  value	description
  disturbance_ephemeral	Ephemeral plant the germinates and establishes following disturbance, but the type of disturbance is not specified.
  fire_ephemeral	Ephemeral plant that germinates and establishes following fire, where it is unknown if the plant is an obligate or facultative fire ephemeral.
  fire_ephemeral_facultative	Ephemeral plant that increases its germination and establishment following fire, but can also germinate and establish without fire.
  fire_ephemeral_obligate	Ephemeral plant that only germinates and establishes following fire.
  rain_ephemeral	Ephemeral plant that germinates and establishes following rain or flood events.

See the AusTraits Plant Dictionary (https://w3id.org/APD/traits/trait_0030013) for additional information about this trait.

Coverage

For this trait, AusTraits includes a total of 17 records. This includes:

• data for 16 species.
• data for 9 families.
• data from 1 datasets (see the portal Citations tab for a list of sources)