root_wood_density

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• Label: Root wood density
• Entity URI: https://w3id.org/APD/traits/trait_0012119
• Type: numeric
• Definition: A root morphology trait [TO:0000043] which is the ratio [PATO:0001470] of the dry mass [PATO:0000125] of a unit of wood [PO_0005848] from a root [PO:0009005]to its fresh fresh [EnvThes:21976] volume [PATO:0000918].;The ratio of woody root dry mass to woody root fresh volume.
• Additional comments: None
• units: mg/mm3
• allowable range: 0.05 - 10 mg/mm3

See the AusTraits Plant Dictionary (https://w3id.org/APD/traits/trait_0012119) for additional information about this trait.

Coverage

For this trait, AusTraits includes a total of 205 records. This includes:

• data for 105 species.
• data for 32 families.
• data from 4 datasets (see the portal Citations tab for a list of sources)