wood_density

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• Label: Wood density
• Entity URI: https://w3id.org/APD/traits/trait_0011815
• Type: numeric
• Definition: A stem morphology trait [TO:0000361] which is the ratio [PATO:0001470] of the mass [PATO:0000125] of a unit of wood [NCIT:C93062] from a stem [PO:0009047] assessed after drying to its volume [PATO:0000918] assessed without drying.;The ratio of wood dry mass to wood fresh volume, measured on a stem segment without bark.
• Additional comments: None
• units: mg/mm3
• allowable range: 0.05 - 1.4 mg/mm3

See the AusTraits Plant Dictionary (https://w3id.org/APD/traits/trait_0011815) for additional information about this trait.

Coverage

For this trait, AusTraits includes a total of 13,080 records. This includes:

• data for 2,160 species.
• data for 126 families.
• data from 58 datasets (see the portal Citations tab for a list of sources)