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PopulationAndCommunityOntology / pco

An ontology about groups of interacting organisms such as populations and communities
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creation of a class for species range needed in the biorealm ontology #76

Closed thearyung closed 3 years ago

thearyung commented 4 years ago

in our new biorealm ontology we would like to express the areas where a population of taxa live and interact with its ecosystem. We propose the following: label: population range

definition: an ecosystem which is delimited by the ranges of an ecological population

ramonawalls commented 4 years ago

Would this be a subclass of ENVO:ecosystem or a part of an ecosystem?

pbuttigieg commented 4 years ago

Sounds like a part of min 1 ecosystem. In a "pure" sense, it's more like a spatial region / site; practically it wouldn't be distinguishable from an ecosystem.

Is this really a PCO entity? Maybe ECOCORE is better @diatomsRcool ?

ramonawalls commented 4 years ago

@pbuttigieg This was moved here from ECOCORE. I think it fits in PCO because of its direct relationship to a population of organisms, but I could be out voted and move it back to ECOCORE. Either way, we should decide soon so @thearyung isn't left waiting.

pbuttigieg commented 4 years ago

label: population range definition: an ecosystem which is delimited by the ranges of an ecological population

This above is circular.

Try: "An ecosystem within which members of a given taxon can be found."

Also note the variants of range: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Range_(biology)#Range

pbuttigieg commented 4 years ago

This was moved here from ECOCORE. I think it fits in PCO because of its direct relationship to a population of organisms

I don't think so - it's broader than PCO's usual content and would result in mission creep. It's also one of those core ecological principles that ECOCORE was designed to host.

ramonawalls commented 3 years ago

Make PR in ecocore

ramonawalls commented 3 years ago

I added this to Ecocore as a subclass of environmental zone which is a site that is part of some ecosystem. I'll do a PR there as soon as I get access to the repo.