plant_tolerance_water_logged_soils

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• Label: Plant water-logging tolerance
• Entity URI: https://w3id.org/APD/traits/trait_0030812
• Type: categorical
• Definition: An environmental [ENVO:01000203] tolerance [NCIT:C43414] trait which is the duration [PATO:0001309] that a plant [PO:0000003] is able to tolerate water-logged soils, an indication of a plant's sensitivity [NCIT:C25201] to flood [ENVO:01000710] conditions. Soil [ENVO:00001998] is considered water-logged if it is saturated [NCIT:C61427] with water [CHEBI:15377], limiting the plant root's [PO:0009005] ability to respire [GO:0045333] due to a lack of soil oxygen [CHEBI:15379].;Categorical groupings, indicating the length of time a taxon is able to tolerate water-logged soils.
• Additional comments: None
• Allowed values:

  value	description
  1-6_months	Taxa able to tolerate 1-6 months of waterlogging.
  aquatic	Taxa truly aquatic and able to be permanently inundated.
  greater_than_6_months	Taxa able to tolerate more than 6 months of waterlogging.
  less_than_1_month	Taxa able to tolerate less than 1 month of waterlogging.
  not_applicable	Taxa is not typically confronted with waterlogging and its response is unknown.

See the AusTraits Plant Dictionary (https://w3id.org/APD/traits/trait_0030812) for additional information about this trait.

Coverage

For this trait, AusTraits includes a total of 7,768 records. This includes:

• data for 6,309 species.
• data for 166 families.
• data from 1 datasets (see the portal Citations tab for a list of sources)