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New Term: puddle #337

Closed sakelly closed 7 years ago

sakelly commented 8 years ago

If puddle could be added that would be great! It is a breeding site for mosquitoes that we would take samples from.

Thank you

Sarah

pbuttigieg commented 8 years ago

Will do. Do you have a working definition for that? Is there some sort of property that sets a puddle apart from other contained volumes of water?

bobular commented 8 years ago

I guess it's the temporary nature of the puddle that is important. I suppose it's usually filled by rain, but would not have to be: river flooding, irrigation...?

And it must be on the ground (a pool in a discarded car tyre is not a puddle, I reckon), but could be anthropogenic (human or cattle footprints, tyre tracks) or more generally from animal footprints.

Fits somewhere within here I guess: ENVO:00000549 Intermittent water body

thank you!