plant_type_by_resource_use

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• Label: Plant resource requirements and tolerance
• Entity URI: https://w3id.org/APD/traits/trait_0030810
• Type: categorical
• Definition: An environmental [ENVO:01000203] tolerance [NCIT:C43414] trait which categorises plants based on the environmental conditions in which they survive and thrive, including their tolerance of, sensitivity [NCIT:C25201] to, and requirement [NCIT:C25652] for certain resource availabilities [EnvThes:21497], including water [CHEBI:15377] availability and soil [ENVO:00001998] nutrient [CHEBI:33284] content and salinity [PATO:0085001].;Classification scheme of plant resource requirements and tolerances, categorising taxa based on their water, soil nutrient, and soil salinity requirements and tolerances.
• Additional comments: None
• Allowed values:

  value	description
  hydrohalophyte	Tidal swamp or 'mangrove' and coastal lagoon elements and temperate-zone salt-marsh taxa are classed together.
  phreatophyte	Deep-rooted plants—usually trees—obtaining water from a deep underground source that may or may not be saline.
  psammophile	Sand-loving plants commonly found in littoral strand or inland sandfields.
  weedy	This inexact term is meant to indicate a high degree of adaptability to sites, and proven tendency toward aggressive colonization of either dry or wet sites, or rarely, both. In general, weeds invade and colonize highly disturbed sites or areas.
  xerohalophyte	Plants adapted to inland salt desert and saline habitats.
  xerophyte	Drought-tolerant and drought-adapted plants.

See the AusTraits Plant Dictionary (https://w3id.org/APD/traits/trait_0030810) for additional information about this trait.

Coverage

For this trait, AusTraits includes a total of 292 records. This includes:

• data for 292 species.
• data for 60 families.
• data from 1 datasets (see the portal Citations tab for a list of sources)