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PopulationAndCommunityOntology / pco

An ontology about groups of interacting organisms such as populations and communities
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NTRs: overcrowded #37

Closed ramonawalls closed 4 years ago

ramonawalls commented 8 years ago

Should overcrowded go in PATO? From @cmungall, originally posted as BiodiversityOntologies/bco#71

We need a generic density in PATO (mass density is not appropriate here)

If OK, I can easily add

quality of population of organisms
    density of pop
        increased density of pop (aka overcrowded)
        -

to PATO

unless you think it belongs here

ramonawalls commented 4 years ago

@pbuttigieg I think this may have been for SDGIO. Do you know if a term was ever created there?

ramonawalls commented 4 years ago

Thinking about this again, mass density does seem reasonable. It is "A physical quality which inheres in a bearer by virtue of some influence is exerted by the bearer's mass per unit size." Organisms have mass, so it makes sense to talk about the mass of a collection of organisms exerting some influence per unit size.

ramonawalls commented 4 years ago

Will also add overcrowded human population.