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EcologicalSemantics / ecocore

An ontology of core ecological entities
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potential use of ecocore from EOL #56

Open diatomsRcool opened 5 years ago

diatomsRcool commented 5 years ago

From Katja Schulz "Search & browse are definitely the major applications. Trophic ecology is one of those areas where there has been great proliferation of specialized vocabularies in different subdisciplines (mammology, ichthyology, entomology, marine biology, parasitology, plant pathology, behavioral ecology, etc.) and we really need to have an ontology to integrate concepts across the tree of life. Another application would be the cross-validation of data, e.g., if we have trophic interaction data from GloBI, we can use the food web data to check for suspicious data points (e.g., a herbivore eating a mammal) and vice versa. "

diatomsRcool commented 5 years ago

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diatomsRcool commented 5 years ago

What's the difference between graminivore and grazer?

diatomsRcool commented 5 years ago

Does gumnivore = gummivore?

jhammock commented 5 years ago

the admin terms interface is up again, which should clarify both of those cases. Trophic terms generally have attribution, if they are not adopted directly from an existing vocabulary.

diatomsRcool commented 5 years ago

Got it. I won't close this issue until I start a term request for everything in the diagram.

diatomsRcool commented 5 years ago

Terms still not included: invertebrates carnivorous plant lignivore browser predator-scavenger faunivore parasitic plant