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A community-driven ontology for the representation of environments
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Import "stand" from PCO #349

Open pbuttigieg opened 7 years ago

pbuttigieg commented 7 years ago

@rlwalls2008 Coordinate CESAB thesaurus request on "stand"

pbuttigieg commented 7 years ago

We can refine this def from an ANU resource

A stand is a contiguous area that contains a number of trees that are relatively homogeneous or have a common set of characteristics.

to something like:

A stand is a collection of upright trees which are present across a contiguous area of land and which share common parts, phenotypes, phylogeny, or other attributes.

I don't like "attributes" there, does phenotype do the same semantic work? Also, I think some statement that this collection is generally expected to interact ecologically or can function like an ecological unit should be in a comment, but I'm not sure this is always the case.

I've seen stand used for both living and dead trees on the web. Not sure if there's a consensus here.