Glossary of ALL Terms for Data on EOL

Aalenian Age: http://resource.geosciml.org/classifier/ics/ischart/Aalenian

International Chronostratigraphic Chart: http://www.stratigraphy.org/index.php/ics-chart-timescale
abdomen length: http://eol.org/schema/terms/AbdomenLength
above ground dwelling: http://eol.org/schema/terms/aboveGroundDwelling
An organism that is adapted to terrestrial life above ground but not immediately on the ground. This includes arboreal and volant organisms.
abundance: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCIT_C70589
Relative degree of plentifulness.
abyssal feature: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00000190
Feature on the ocean floor at a depth of 3500 - 6000 meters.
abyssal plain: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00000244
A flat or very gently sloping areas of the deep ocean basin floor.
abyssal zone: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_01000027
The marine abyssal zone biome comprises regions of the marine benthic biome between approximately 2500 m and 6000 m depth. This zone generally coincides with the continental rise and the abyssal plain.
abyssal zone (4000-6000m): http://polytraits.lifewatchgreece.eu/terms/DZ_ABY
abyssalpelagic zone: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00000212
The zone of the ocean below the bathypelagic zone, with its lowest boundary at about 6000m.
achondrite: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00002050
A stony meteorite that is made of material similar to terrestrial basalts or plutonic rocks.
acicular (needle-like): http://eol.org/schema/terms/acicular
Slender and pointed, needle-like
acid dune sand: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00005798
acid hot spring: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00002120
A hot spring whose water has an acidic pH.
acid mine drainage: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00001997
A mine drainage with an acidic pH.
acidic freshwater mining lake: http://eol.org/schema/terms/acidicFreshwaterMiningLake
acidic soil: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/EO_0007059
activated sludge: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00002046
active forager: http://eol.org/schema/terms/activeForaging
An organism which obtains food primarily by active searching.
active growth period: http://eol.org/schema/terms/ActiveGrowthPeriod
The growing season of a plant. The time of year when a plant has its most active growth.
actual evapotranspiration rate in geographic range: http://eol.org/schema/terms/AETinRange
Monthly AET (Actual Evapotranspiration Rate) within the geographic range of a taxon. Evapotranspiration (ET) is the sum of evaporation and plant transpiration from the Earth's land surface to atmosphere.
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Evapotranspiration&oldid=575637212
adaptive strategy: http://eol.org/schema/terms/adaptiveStrategy
mechanisms and responses used by organisms to reproduce, defend, survive, and compete on the landscape.
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2745.2005.01043.x https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plant_strategies
adhesive: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PATO_0002331
adobe soil: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00002870
adolescent: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PATO_0001189
A maturity quality inhering in a bearer by virtue of the bearer's being between the onset of puberty and maturity.
[database_cross_reference: WordNet:WordNet]
adult: http://www.ebi.ac.uk/efo/EFO_0001272
A maturity quality inhering in an individual by virtue of the individual having attained sexual maturity and full growth
Adult Yearly Survival: http://eol.org/schema/terms/AdultYearlySurvival
adventive in: https://eol.org/schema/terms/adventive
A possibly ambiguous term used to describe the presence of the taxon in a region. Common definitions include newly arrived; vagrant; in flux. May or may not have been introduced by human activity.
Simpson, A., Eyler, M.C., Sikes, D., Bowser, M., Sellers, E., Guala, G.F., Cannister, M., Libby, R., and Kozlowski, N., 2019, A comprehensive list of non-native species established in three major regions of the United States: Version 2.0, (ver. 2.0, 2019): U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9E5K160.
aerial: http://eol.org/schema/terms/aerial
organisms adapted to spending a considerable part of their life in the air, away from the ground, vegetation or water.
aerial habitat: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00000568
A habitat that is solely in the air.
aerial locomotion behavior: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NBO_0000366
Behavior related to the movement of an organism from one location to another through the air.
Aeronian Age: http://resource.geosciml.org/classifier/ics/ischart/Aeronian

International Chronostratigraphic Chart: http://www.stratigraphy.org/index.php/ics-chart-timescale
aerosol: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00010505
Airborne solid particles (also called dust or particulate matter (PM)) or liquid droplets.
aesthetic: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/MFOEM_000039
after harvest regrowth rate: http://eol.org/schema/terms/AfterHarvestRegrowthRate
Indicates the relative rate of regrowth of a herbaceous plant after a harvest of above ground herbage.
USDA PLANTS database Characteristics Data Fields. http://plants.usda.gov/charinfo.html
age at dispersal: http://eol.org/schema/terms/age At Dispersal
age at eye opening: http://eol.org/schema/terms/AgeAtEyeOpening
Age at which both eyes are fully open after birth.
Kate E. Jones, Jon Bielby, Marcel Cardillo, Susanne A. Fritz, Justin O'Dell, C. David L. Orme, Kamran Safi, Wes Sechrest, Elizabeth H. Boakes, Chris Carbone, Christina Connolly, Michael J. Cutts, Janine K. Foster, Richard Grenyer, Michael Habib, Christopher A. Plaster, Samantha A. Price, Elizabeth A. Rigby, Janna Rist, Amber Teacher, Olaf R. P. Bininda-Emonds, John L. Gittleman, Georgina M. Mace, and Andy Purvis. 2009. PanTHERIA: a species-level database of life history, ecology, and geography of extant and recently extinct mammals. Ecology 90:2648. http://esapubs.org/archive/ecol/E090/184/
age at first birth: http://eol.org/schema/terms/AgeAtFirstBirth
Age at which females give birth to their first litter, or their young attach to teats or hatch out
age at first reproduction: http://polytraits.lifewatchgreece.eu/terms/MAT
age at maturity: http://eol.org/schema/terms/AgeAtMaturity
Age at the first successful reproduction.
age at maturity of resprouts: http://eol.org/schema/terms/AgeAtMaturityResprouts
Age of resprouts at first successful reproduction (in years), i.e., when most of the resprouting plants produce the first seed crop.
BROT trait database. Traits: units and categories (MatResp), http://www.uv.es/jgpausas/brot.htm
agricultural: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00000077
agricultural material: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_0010003
agricultural soil: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00002259
agricultural terrace: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00000519
agricultural waste: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00002265
Wastewater produced in the course of agricultural activities
agricultural waste: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_01000371
waste produced as a result of various agricultural operations. It includes manure and other wastes from farms, poultry houses and slaughterhouses; harvest waste; fertilizer run- off from fields; pesticides that enter into water, air or soils; and salt and silt drained from fields
agricultural wastewater treatment plant: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_2000003
A wastewater treatment plant that treats agriculatural wastewater. Agricultural wastewater treatment relates to the treatment of wastewaters produced in the course of agricultural activities. Agriculture is a highly intensified industry in many parts of the world, producing a range of wastewaters requiring a variety of treatment technologies and management practices.
agro-forestry: http://eol.org/schema/terms/agroforestry
the intentional integration of trees and shrubs into crop and animal farming systems to create environmental, economic, and social benefits
https://www.usda.gov/topics/forestry/agroforestry
air conditioning unit: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00002874
air filter: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00003968
air temperature: http://eol.org/schema/terms/AirTemperature

http://web.uconn.edu/poultry/NE-127/NewFiles/air%20temp.html
alas: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00000438
A steep-sided depression formed by the melting of permafrost; it may contain a lake.
albeluvisol: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00002233
Albeluvisols are soils that have, beginning within 1 m of the soil surface, a clay illuviation horizon with an irregular or broken upper boundary resulting in tonguing of bleached soil material into the illuviation horizon.
Albian Age: http://resource.geosciml.org/classifier/ics/ischart/Albian

International Chronostratigraphic Chart: http://www.stratigraphy.org/index.php/ics-chart-timescale
algae: https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q37868
aquatic, photosynthetic, and non vascular eukaryotic organisms (a polyphyletic group)
algal bloom: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_2000004
A feature that arises from a rapid increase or accumulation in the population of algae (typically microscopic) in an aquatic system.
algivore: https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7486201
consumer that eats algae
alisol: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00002231
Alisols are soils that have a higher clay content in the subsoil than in the topsoil as a result of pedogenetic processes (especially clay migration) leading to an argic subsoil horizon. Alisols have a low base saturation at certain depths and high-activity clays throughout the argic horizon. They lack the albeluvic tonguing as in Albeluvisols. They occur predominantly in humid tropical, humid subtropical and warm temperate regions.
alkaline environment: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_01000316
An alkaline environment is an environment in which entities are exposed to high pH, typically greater than a pH of 9
Gymnodiniales Traits
alkaline flat: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00000196
A dry lakebead consisting of fine-grained sediments infused with alkali salts. Generally the shore or bed of an endorheic lake.
alkaline habitat: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00002022
A biome in which the pH is >pH9. Inhabited by alkaliphilic organisms.
alkaline hot spring: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00002119
A hot spring whose water has an alkaline pH.
alkaline salt lake: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00002121
allolectotype: http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/TaxonName#Allolectotype
A paralectotype specimen that is the opposite sex of the lectotype. The term is not regulated by the ICZN. [Zoo.]
alloneotype: http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/TaxonName#Alloneotype
A paraneotype specimen that is the opposite sex of the neotype. The term is not regulated by the ICZN. [Zoo.]
allotment garden: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00005745
allotment garden soil: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00005744
allotype: http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/TaxonName#Allotype
A paratype specimen designated from the type series by the original author that is the opposite sex of the holotype. The term is not regulated by the ICZN. [Zoo.]
alluvial fan: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00000314
A fan-shaped deposit formed where a fast flowing stream flattens, slows, and spreads typically at the exit of a canyon onto a flatter plain.
alluvial paddy field soil: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00005759
alluvial plain: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00000258
A relatively flat and gently sloping landform found at the base of a range of hills or mountains, formed by the deposition of alluvial soil over a long period of time by one or more streams coming from the mountains.
alluvial soil: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00002871
alluvial swamp soil: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00005758
along-front current: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_01000100
A marine surface current that flows along an oceanic front.
alpine glacier: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00000085
A glacier found in mountain terrain.
alpine soil: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00005741
altitude: http://semanticscience.org/resource/SIO_000438
Altitude is a distance above sea level.
ambush predator: http://eol.org/schema/terms/ambush
organisms that capture or trap prey by stealth or by strategy (typically not conscious strategy), rather than by speed or by strength.
amenity lake: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00000451
A lake constructed, or modified, for the chief purpose of providing an amenity.
amniotic fluid: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_02000021
Amniotic fluid is a bodily fluid consisting of watery liquid surrounding and cushioning a growing fetus within the amnion. It allows the fetus to move freely without the walls of the uterus being too tight against its body. Buoyancy is also provided.
Ampharetid feeder: https://eol.org/schema/terms/ampharetid_feeder
a carnivore that feeds primarily on ampharetid worms (Ampharetidae)
amphibious: http://eol.org/schema/terms/amphibious
organism that is adapted to both life on land and in the water.
amphidromous: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/FOODON_03413450
Amphidromous fish move between fresh and salt water during some part of life cycle, but not for breeding.
anabranch: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00000152
A section of a river or stream that diverts from the main course and rejoins later.
anadromous: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/FOODON_03413448
Anadromous fish live in the sea mostly, breed in fresh water; the best-known are salmon, which hatch in small freshwater streams, go down to the sea and live there for several years, then return to the same streams where they were hatched, spawn, and die shortly thereafter.
anaerobic mud: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00002133
anaerobic sediment: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00002045
Sediment characterised by the absence of oxygen.
anaerobic soil tolerance: http://eol.org/schema/terms/AnaerobicSoilTolerance
The relative tolerance of the plant to anaerobic soil conditions.
USDA PLANTS database Characteristics Data Fields. http://plants.usda.gov/charinfo.html
anaerobic stream sediment: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00002134
andosol: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00002232
Andosols are soils that develop in volcanic ejecta or glasses under almost any climate (except under hyperarid climate conditions). However, Andosols may also develop in other silicate-rich materials under acid weathering in humid and perhumid climates.
androviviparous: http://eol.org/schema/terms/androviviparous
Having paternal care wherein eggs are incubated internally by the father, and young emerge post-hatching
anemochory: http://eol.org/schema/terms/anemochory
Seed dispersal by wind (with wind dispersal adaptations, such as pappus or wings).
http://www.uv.es/jgpausas/brot.htm
animal feed: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_02000047
Animal feed is a biotic mesoscopic physical object consisting of any foodstuff that is used specifically to feed domesticated livestock, such as cattle, goats, sheep, horses, chickens and pigs. Most animal feed is from plants but some is of animal origin. Fodder refers particularly to food given to the animals (including plants cut and carried to them), rather than that which they forage for themselves. It includes hay, straw, silage, compressed and pelleted feeds, oils and mixed rations, and also sprouted grains and legumes.
animal habitation: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00005803
The dwelling of an animal or group of similar animals.
animal litter: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00002191
Straw or other material strewn in an animal's enclosure (e.g. a stable) for it to sleep on and to absorb its faeces and urine.
animal manure: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00003031
animal matter fall: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_01000139
The carcass of an animal that has fallen to the bottom of a body of water.
animal population density: http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/CSP/2383-1863
Number of animals in a population relative to space.
animal waste: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00002276
Anisian Age: http://resource.geosciml.org/classifier/ics/ischart/Anisian

International Chronostratigraphic Chart: http://www.stratigraphy.org/index.php/ics-chart-timescale
annual: http://eol.org/schema/terms/annual
Of plant duration, a plant whose life span ends within one year after germination, e.g. a winter annual germinating in the autumn and flowering in the spring (esp. in Mediterranean climates), approximately synonymous to therophyte, c.f. biennial, ephemeral, perennial, c.f. also of flowering with respect to architecture, hapaxanthic, monocarpic, pleonanthic.
Stevens, P. F. (2001 onwards). Angiosperm Phylogeny Website. Version 12, July 2012. Glossary: http://www.mobot.org/mobot/research/apweb/top/glossarya_h.html#annual
annual: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/FLOPO_0980071
Of plant duration, a plant whose life span ends within one year after germination, e.g. a winter annual germinating in the autumn and flowering in the spring (esp. in Mediterranean climates), approximately synonymous to therophyte, c.f. biennial, ephemeral, perennial, c.f. also of flowering with respect to architecture, hapaxanthic, monocarpic, pleonanthic.
Stevens, P. F. (2001 onwards). Angiosperm Phylogeny Website. Version 12, July 2012. Glossary: http://www.mobot.org/mobot/research/apweb/top/glossarya_h.html#annual
annual precipitation: http://eol.org/schema/terms/AnnualPrecipitation
Total depth of precipitation fallen in a given location in one year, if converted to liquid form. Precipitation is any product of the condensation of atmospheric water vapour that falls under gravity.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precipitation
anoxic water: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_01000173
Water depleted of dissolved oxygen.
ante-isooctadecanoic acid: http://eol.org/schema/terms/ante-isooctadecanoic_acid
ante-isotetradecanoic acid: http://eol.org/schema/terms/anteisotetradecanoic_acid
anterior culmen length: http://eol.org/schema/terms/AnteriorCulmenLength
The distance from the front of the nares (nostrils) to the tip of the bill of a bird.
anthropogenic: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00000002
a geographic feature resulting from the influence of human beings on nature.
anthropogenic abiotic mesoscopic feature: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00003075
anthropogenic contamination feature: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00002204
anthropogenic environmental material: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_0010001
Anthropogenic material in or on which organisms may live.
anthropogenic habitat: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00002031
A habitat that is in or on an environmental feature or material derived from human activity.
anthropogenic terrestrial biome: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_01000219
An anthropogenic terrestrial biome is a terrestrial biome which has community structures determined by human activity.
anthrosol: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00002230
Anthrosols comprise soils that have been modified profoundly through human activities, such as addition of organic materials or household wastes, irrigation and cultivation.
apatite: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/CHEBI_52254
A phosphate mineral with the general formula Ca5(PO4)3X where X = OH, F or Cl
apex predator: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q19067
predator residing at the top of a food chain, with no predators of its own
aphotic zone: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00000210
The zone of an ocean below 200m, in which photosynthesis cannot occur due to the lack of light.
apparently_secure: https://eol.org/schema/terms/apparently_secure
At a fairly low risk of extirpation in the jurisdiction due to an extensive range and/or many populations or occurrences, but with possible cause for some concern as a result of local recent declines, threats, or other factors.
http://www.natureserve.org/conservation-tools/conservation-status-assessment
apron: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00000530
A gentle slope, with a generally smooth surface, particularly found around groups of islands and seamounts.
Aptian Age: http://resource.geosciml.org/classifier/ics/ischart/Aptian

International Chronostratigraphic Chart: http://www.stratigraphy.org/index.php/ics-chart-timescale
aquaduct: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00000072
Structure designed to transport water from a remote source, usually by gravity.
aquarium: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00002196
aquatic: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00000063
aquatic: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00002030
A habitat that is in or on water
aquatic adapted: http://eol.org/schema/terms/aquatic
organism that is adapted to life in the water
aquatic habitat: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00000144
A habitat that is in or on water.
aquatic plant: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/FLOPO_0900044
whole plant aquatic
aqueous humour: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_02000024
Aqueous humour is a bodily fluid consisting of a thick watery substance that fills the space between the lens and the cornea.
aquifer: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00012408
An underground layer of water-bearing permeable rock or unconsolidated materials (gravel, sand, silt, or clay) from which groundwater can be usefully extracted using a water well.
Aquitanian Age: http://resource.geosciml.org/classifier/ics/ischart/Aquitanian

International Chronostratigraphic Chart: http://www.stratigraphy.org/index.php/ics-chart-timescale
arable soil: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00005742
aragonite: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/CHEBI_52239
Calcium carbonate (CO3Ca), aragonite structure
Aragonite Saturation State: http://eol.org/schema/terms/aragonite_saturation_state
the degree to which seawater is saturated with respect to the aragonite form of calcium carbonate
https://coralreefwatch.noaa.gov/satellite/oa/description/oaps_intro_aragonite_ss.php
arboreal: http://eol.org/schema/terms/arboreal
organism that is adapted to life in trees.
arboreal habitat: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00000571
A habitat in or on trees.
arboreal locomotion behavior: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NBO_0000364
Behavior related to the locomotion of animals in trees.
arborescent: http://eol.org/schema/terms/arborescent
Of habit, resembling a tree, a term applied to non-woody plants attaining tree height and to shrubs tending to become tree-like in size
Stevens, P. F. (2001 onwards). Angiosperm Phylogeny Website. Version 12, July 2012. http://www.mobot.org/mobot/research/apweb/top/glossarya_h.html#C
arbuscular mycorrhizal association: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GO_0036377
A form of mutualism between a fungus and the roots of a vascular plant, where hyphae of the fungus penetrate the plant cell wall and invaginate its cell membrane. Once inside, the fungus forms highly branched structures for nutrient exchange with the plant called arbuscules. Aids in the acquisition by the plant of nutrients such as phosphorus from the soil.
Archean Eon: http://resource.geosciml.org/classifier/ics/ischart/Archean
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International Chronostratigraphic Chart: http://www.stratigraphy.org/index.php/ics-chart-timescale
archeological site: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00000564
A place (or group of physical sites) in which evidence of past activity is preserved (either prehistoric or historic or contemporary), and which is, has been, or may be, investigated using the discipline of archaeology.
archipelago: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00000220
A group of geographically or geologically associated islands.
area: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PATO_0001709
areas with native and introduced infra-taxa: http://eol.org/schema/terms/NativeIntroducedRange
Lists jurisdictions in which some infra-taxa of a given organism are members of the undisturbed fauna or flora while others have been introduced recently.
areas with native and probably introduced infra-taxa: http://eol.org/schema/terms/NativeProbablyIntroducedRange
Lists jurisdictions in which some infra-taxa of a given organism are members of the undisturbed fauna or flora while others have probably been introduced recently.
arete: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00000429
A thin, almost knife-like, ridge of rock which is typically formed when two glaciers erode parallel U-shaped valleys. The arte is a thin ridge of rock that is left separating the two valleys. Artes can also form when two glacial cirques erode towards one another, although frequently this results in a saddle-shaped pass, called a col.
arid: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_01000230
An arid condition is an environmental condition in which annual precipitation is less than half of annual potential evapotranspiration.
arm plus disc length: http://eol.org/schema/terms/ArmPlusDiscLength
arsenate treated wood: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00002136
arsenic-rich mud: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00002122
artificial channel: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00000121
artificial harbor: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00000464
A harbor constructed by human agency.
artificial island: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00000099
An island constructed by human effort.
artificial lake: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00000377
A lake purposefully constructed.
artificial reef: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00000149
Chains of rocks or coral at or near the surface of water constructed by man.
Artinskian Age: http://resource.geosciml.org/classifier/ics/ischart/Artinskian

International Chronostratigraphic Chart: http://www.stratigraphy.org/index.php/ics-chart-timescale
ash cone: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00000399
A cone that is composed of particles of silt to sand size. Explosive eruptions from a vent where the magma is interacting with groundwater or the sea (as in an eruption off the coast) produce steam and are called phreatic. The interaction between the magma, expanding steam, and volcanic gases results in the ejection of mostly small particles called ash. Fallen ash has the consistency of flour. The unconsolidated ash forms an ash cone which becomes a tuff cone or tuff ring once the ash consolidates.
Ash Content: http://eol.org/schema/terms/Ash_content
asphalt lake: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00000165
A lake formed of a natural deposit of alphalt, a black, highly viscous liquid or semi-solid composed of fossil hydrocarbons.
Asselian Age: http://resource.geosciml.org/classifier/ics/ischart/Asselian

International Chronostratigraphic Chart: http://www.stratigraphy.org/index.php/ics-chart-timescale
assessor/s: http://eol.org/schema/terms/Assessor
at least short-persistent: http://eol.org/schema/terms/atLeastShortPersistentSeedBank
Of seed bank longevity. Seed bank longevity is > 1 and at least <= 5 yr (could be longer but it is unknown).
http://www.uv.es/jgpausas/brot.htm
atoll: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00000166
An oceanic island, often having a characteristic ring-like shape surrounding a lagoon. Atolls are formed when coral reef grows around a volcanic island that later subsides into the ocean.
attenuation coefficient: https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q902086
characterizes how easily a material can be penetrated, usually by a beam of light, or sometimes other energy or matter.
attractant: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GO_0042056
autochory: http://eol.org/schema/terms/autochory
Seed dispersal by gravity, without the assistance of any dispersal vector (= unassisted dispersal).
http://www.uv.es/jgpausas/brot.htm
autotrophy: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ECOCORE_00000009
any trophic interaction which has as input some inorganic material (non-living) that is the only source of carbon or reducing equivalents source is a autotrophic process
average: http://eol.org/schema/terms/average
A vague term indicating a measure of central tendency, like a mean, median, or a more complex measure like a mean of subgrouped means
aviation fuel: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00003903
avivore: https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4829056
animal that preys on and eats birds