life_history

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• Label: Life history
• Entity URI: https://w3id.org/APD/traits/trait_0030012
• Type: categorical
• Definition: Categorical description of the duration [PATO:0001309] of a plant's lifespan (longevity [NCIT:C153298]), from seed germination [GO:0009845] to death [GO:0016265].;Categorical description of the duration of a plant's lifespan, from germination to death.
• Additional comments: Studies will differ in the subset of terms they use to describe a plant's life history, such that some researchers will distinguish between ephemeral and annual species, and other researchers will group these life history categories together under `annual`. In addition, only a subset of studies will use the term `short-lived perennial`; the majority will score all perennial plants as `perennial`. Rangeland studies and post-fire studies are those most likely to score species as `ephemeral` or `short-lived perennial`, as these are environments where perennial species' lifespans are often divided into those that are short-lived due to environmental conditions and those that are able to persist through the environmentally unfavourable period.
• Allowed values:

  value	description
  annual	A plant that lives for up to one year after germinating, completing its life cycle in a single growing season.
  biennial	A plant that lives for up to two years after germinating, requiring two growing seasons to complete its life cycle and dying following the second growing season.
  ephemeral	A very short-lived plant, generally with a lifespan of only a few months and the exact length of lifespan quite variable and determined by environmental conditions.
  perennial	A plant that lives for three or more growing seasons, with an exact lifespan that is indeterminate.
  short_lived_perennial	A perennial whose lifespan is less than approximately five years, with the exact lifespan generally dependent on environmental conditions.

See the AusTraits Plant Dictionary (https://w3id.org/APD/traits/trait_0030012) for additional information about this trait.

Coverage

For this trait, AusTraits includes a total of 86,663 records. This includes:

• data for 30,341 species.
• data for 307 families.
• data from 62 datasets (see the portal Citations tab for a list of sources)