Traits:Salinity

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Salinity (regime)

Salinity (regime): The range of salinities in which the organism is recorded (scale taken from Reuser and Lee 2011)

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• [[Salinity|Salinity (regime)]]
  • [[BrackishSalinity|Brackish]]
    • [[Mesohaline|Mesohaline]]
      • [[AlphaMesohaline|Alpha-Mesohaline]]
      • [[BetaMesohaline|Beta-Mesohaline]]
    • [[Oligohaline|Oligohaline]]
      • [[AlphaOligohaline|Alpha-Oligohaline]]
      • [[BetaOligohaline|Beta-Oligohaline]]
    • [[Polyhaline|Polyhaline]]
      • [[AlphaPolyhaline|Alpha-Polyhaline]]
      • [[BetaPolyhaline|Beta-Polyhaline]]
  • [[FreshwaterSalinity|Freshwater]]
  • [[HyperSaline|Hyper-saline]]
  • [[MarineSalinity|Marine]]
    • [[AlphaHaline|Alpha-haline]]
    • [[BetaHaline|Beta-Haline]]

The definition refers to a scale of salinities (Reasser & Lee, 2011). The traits could be records as a range of values of the scale in which the organism is found, or as the max. to minimum values in which the organism is recorded. Note the scale is expressed as 'psu' while the TEOS-10 uses g/kg (mass fraction of salt in seawater).

Reusser D.A. and Lee H. (2011). Evolution of natural history information in the 21st century – developing an integrated framework for biological and geographical data. Journal of Biogeography, 38, 1225-1239. Thermodynamic Equation of Seawater 2010. http://www.teos-10.org/