plant_alternative_energy_and_nutrient_acquisition_strategy

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• Label: Plant alternative energy and nutrient acquisition strategies
• Entity URI: https://w3id.org/APD/traits/trait_0030017
• Type: categorical
• Definition: A whole plant [PO:0000003] life history [ECOCORE:00000018] trait which are alternative mechanisms [NCIT:C25343] plants use to obtain [NCIT:C52349] or produce [SIO:001106] energy [PATO:0001021] (carbohydrates [CHEBI:16646]) or nutrients [CHEBI:33284].;Trait indicating the strategies used by a plant to obtain or produce energy (carbohydrates) or nutrients, including photosynthesis and various saprophytic and carnivorous energy and nutrient acquisition mechanisms.
• Additional comments: Although the majority of vascular plants use photosynthesis to produce their own carbohydrates, this trait mostly includes data for the few taxa that are not photosynthetic. Likewise, it captures alternative nutrient acquisition strategies. See also the trait `parasitic` which captures data on whether plants are parasitic (or partially parasitic), forming haustoria to penetrate their host plant. The trait `root_structures` includes specialised root structures
• Allowed values:

  value	description
  carnivorous	Plant that acquires some or most of its nutrients from animals or protozoa.
  nutrient_mining	Plant that uses a specialised root structure, such as cluster roots, to mine nutrients inaccessible to other plant taxa.
  saprophyte	Plant that acquires nutrients from decaying biomass.

See the AusTraits Plant Dictionary (https://w3id.org/APD/traits/trait_0030017) for additional information about this trait.

Coverage

For this trait, AusTraits includes a total of 360 records. This includes:

• data for 359 species.
• data for 17 families.
• data from 2 datasets (see the portal Citations tab for a list of sources)