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An ontology about groups of interacting organisms such as populations and communities
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NTR: organism count #86

Closed ramonawalls closed 4 years ago

ramonawalls commented 4 years ago

For new term requests, please provide the following information:

Preferred term label

organism count

Synonyms

organismal count

Textual definition

A count that inheres in an organism or collection of organisms of the same taxon.

Suggested parent term

Please look in the hierarchy in a browser such as [OLS](http://www.ebi.ac.uk/ols/ontologies/pco]

Attribution

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8815-0078

NOTE: Also make a subclass for organism count by taxon, in which all organisms counted are of the same taxon.

kaiiam commented 4 years ago

xref https://github.com/UA-SRC-data/srpdio/issues/3

ramonawalls commented 4 years ago

@kaiiam

The problem with the proposed definition is that often the count is zero, which then can't inhere in an organism. We had this same challenge in the PPO, which we solved by defining plant structure presense as "A 'plant phenological trait' that is measured by the number of some 'plant structure' that are part of a 'whole plant'."

I propose a similar definition for organism count (syn: organism amount): An amount that is measured by the number of organisms of the same taxon.

To define this more clearly, I think we should create a subclass of BCO:observing process that is organism counting process. In fact, I think this class should be in BCO, not PCO. I will move the ticket there.

ramonawalls commented 4 years ago

Looks like I can't transfer between orgs. Will close this one and open a new one in BCO.

kaiiam commented 4 years ago

xref https://github.com/BiodiversityOntologies/bco/issues/115