Ashika Jagdish's research while affiliated with UNSW Sydney and other places

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We introduce the AusTraits database - a compilation of values of plant traits for taxa in the Australian flora (hereafter AusTraits). AusTraits synthesises data on 448 traits across 28,640 taxa from field campaigns, published literature, taxonomic monographs, and individual taxon descriptions. Traits vary in scope from physiological measures of per...
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We introduce the AusTraits database - a compilation of measurements of plant traits for taxa in the Australian flora (hereafter AusTraits). AusTraits synthesises data on 375 traits across 29230 taxa from field campaigns, published literature, taxonomic monographs, and individual taxa descriptions. Traits vary in scope from physiological measures of...
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Large urban trees have many benefits. However, falling branches pose a serious hazard to both people and infrastructure. In several tree species, aerial roots grow down from branches to the ground. These roots are capable of thickening to support the branches, lessening the risk of tree failure. Unfortunately, in urban environments most aerial root...

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... These data were downloaded on 27 May 2022. Growth habit data for each species were obtained from the development branch of AUSTRAITS (Falster et al., 2021) and recoded into nine growth habits (Table S7). One species, Marsdenia tubulosa F.Muell., was excluded as its growth habit is unknown. ...
... The curation of our database has similarities with AusTraits, a recently announced database about leaf traits for the Australian flora (Falster et al., 2021). As an active project, the current version (1. ...
... ARs that grow on the stems can be buried or wrapped with a medium, which channels them down to the ground to become supporting roots. They can be removed once the ground roots have grown out after transplantation and vigor have been established [25]. With the additional roots on the stem, the root ball size may be reduced, making the transplantation of mature Ficus trees easier and helping to conserve more mature trees by transplanting instead of removal. ...