Cerrado concepts and dynamics ontology (Ccon) aims to represent the main concepts about the Cerrado plant communities structure and dynamics.
The Ccon Ontology
The Ccon represents the main concepts about the Cerrado plant communities structure and dynamics. This ontology will be part of the GeoLinked Data Ontology network to enrich the web of data with geospatial information of the Cerrado Biome, especially with regard the wood plant dynamics.
has Growth
has specific name
is growth of
is specific name of
has exact match
skos:exactMatch is disjoint with each of the properties skos:broadMatch and skos:relatedMatch.
skos:exactMatch is used to link two concepts, indicating a high degree of confidence that the concepts can be used interchangeably across a wide range of information retrieval applications. skos:exactMatch is a transitive property, and is a sub-property of skos:closeMatch.
It's the area of a breast-high cross section of a tree or of all the trees in a stand. Source: Merriam-Webster dictionary (www.merriam-webster.com)
It's the degree of veriation of life forms within a given species, ecosystem, biome, or planet. Source: wikipedia.org
The hierarchy of complex biological structures and systems that define life using a reductionistic approach
Hierarquia de estruturas e sistemas biológicos complexos que definem a vida usando uma abordagem reducionista.
"closed field"
campo cerrado
Scattered trees and shrubs and a large proportion of grassland
"clean field"
Dry grassland without shrubs or trees
"dirty field"
campo sujo
Grassland with a scattering of shrubs and small trees
Portuguese augmentative of cerrado, is an almost closed woodland with crown cover of 50% to 90%, made up of trees, often 8-12m or even taller, casting a considerable shade so that the ground layer is much reduced
It's a vast tropical savanna ecoregion of Brazil
Environmental factos that affect the current occurrence and geographical distribution of the cerrado ecoregion.
It's a regional large scale vegetation which consists of a floristic and vegetational province
É uma vegetação de larga escala regional que forma tanto uma província vegetacional quanto florística
cerrado sensu stricto
The vegetation is dominated by trees and shrubs with over 30% of canopy cover, but with stiil a fair amount of herbaceous vegetation between them
The type of average weather, the state, including statistical description, of the climate system.
The community dynamics is the study of changes over time of the structure of biological communities.
The conservation status of a group of organisms (for instance, a species) indicates whether the group is extant (members of it are still alive) and how likely the group is to become extinct in the near future. Source: wikipedia.org
The number of individuals of a population or cummunity occupying an area.
Consists of the distribution of the number of individuals in diameter classes.
difference
It's the difference of any parameter (size, number of deads, number of recruits etc.) between two dates.
It's a quantitative measure that reflects how many different types (such as species) there are in a dataset, and can simultaneously takes into account how evenly the basic units (such as individuals) are distributed among those types. Source: wikipedia.org
Consists of the period of the year in some tropical climate areas with average rainfall less than 60mm by month.
An ecologically defined large unit of land or water containing a geographically distinct assemblage of species, natural communities, and environmental conditions
Uma grande unidade terrestre ou aquática ecologicamente definida contendo uma assembleia geograficamente distinta de espécies, comunidades naturais e condiçoes ambientais.
The environment of an organism consists of all those factors and phenomena outside the organism that influence it, whether these are physical and chemical (abiotic) or other organisms (biotic) (Begon et al., 2006)
O ambiente de um organismo consiste de todos os fatores e fenômenos exteriores ao organismo que o influencia, tanto físicos e químicos (abióticos), quanto outros organismos (bióticos) (Begon et al., 2006).
The occurrence of burning in ecosystems.
Fire
It's the pattern of veriation in fire occurence, frequency and severity.
The total area of habitat in which a species can inhabit.
Grasses or graminoids are monocotyledonous from Poales Order, usually herbaceos plants with narrow leaves growing from the base. They include some of the most versatile plant life-forms and became widespread toward the end of the Cretaceous period. Source: wikipedia.org; eol.org
It is the understory vegegtation which consistis of mainly grass and herbaceous plants
It's a measure of the changes in population or community size over time.
A herbaceous plant is a plant that has leaves and stems that die down at the end of the growing season to the soil level. They have no persistent woody stem above ground. Herbaceous plants may be annuals, biennials or perennials. Source: wikipedia.org
Consists of a group of spatially separated populations of the same species which interact at some level. Source: wikipedia.org
It's the number of individuals dead over time.
The rate in which new borns are added to a population, or in other words, the number of new borns over time.
It's the amount of individuals of a population or community.
It's a representation of the evenness and quantifies how equal the community is numerically.
It's the study of the changes of the size of a population over time.
Any product of the condensation of atmospheric water vapour that falls under gravity (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precipitation)
Qualquer produto da condensação do vapor de água atmosférico que cai sob efeito da gravidade.
recruitment
It's the rate on which new individuals establishes in a certain community either by new born individuals or immigration.
The relative amount of whater vapour in the atmosphere
Quantidade relativa de vapor de água na atmosfera
grasslands with scattered trees
campos com árvores esparsas
A subdivision of the year, marked by changes in weather, ecology, and hours of day light
A shrub is distinguished from a tree by its multiple stems and shorter height, usually under 6 m tall. Plants of many species may grow either into shrubs or trees, depending on their growing conditions. Source: wikipedia.org
The simplest measure of the character of a community that takes into account both the abundance (or biomass) patterns and the species richness (Begon et al., 2006).
It's a natural body consisting of layers (soil horizons) that are primarily composed of minerals, mixed with at least some organic matter, which differ from their parent materials in their texture, structure, consistency, color, chemical, biological and other characteristics. It is the loose covering of fine rock particles that covers the surface of the earth. Source: wikipedia.org
A group of organinsms capable of interbreeding and producing fertile offspring.
Um grupo de organismos semelhantes capazes de reproduzirem entre si originando descendentes férteis e vivem na mesma região geográfica.
It's how many different species occurs in a community or ecosystem.
the effective number of different species that are represented in a collection of individuals, it consists of two components: species richness and species evenness
Evenness is simply a measure of how similar specie are in their abundances.
the number of differnet species represented in an ecological community, landscape or region
specific name
It is a measure of the thermal energy per particle of matter or radiation; it is measured by a thermometer, which may be calibrated in any of various temperature scales, Celsius, Fahrenheit, Kelvin, etc (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temperature).
A tree can be defined as a large woody perennial plant. Source: wikipedia.org
Most of tropical areas has only two distinct seasons during the year, which are called tropical seasons and they can be distinguish as wet season and dry season.
A tropical forest grows in regions with a marked dry season. There is some defoliation during the dry season, the degree depending on the severity of the moisture deficit. The structure of the forest is also simpler than of the rain forest, with fewer tree strata, and less luxuriant growths of climbing and herbaceous plants. www.oxfordreference.com
Consists of the period of the year in some tropical climate areas with average rainfall greater than 60mm by month.
It consists of mainly wood plants and many researchers include monocots like palm trees becouse of their woody like trunks, but they are not considered trees.
A major class of ecologically similar communities of plants, animals, and other organisms. Biomes are defined based on factors such as plant structures (such as trees, shrubs, and grasses), leaf types (such as broadleaf and needleleaf), plant spacing (forest, woodland, savanna), and other factors like climate. Unlike ecozones, biomes are not defined by genetic, taxonomic, or historical similarities. Biomes are often identified with particular patterns of ecological succession and climax vegetation.
A biome that applies to the terrestrial realm.
Experimental class created in EnvO. A condition defines a restricted range of a given quality or combination of qualities. If an environment class, E, has_condition C, then all qualities listed in C are restricted to the ranges defined in C in E. This is not intended as a logical conditional.
An abiotic environmental factor that influences the functioning of living organisms (Begon et al., 2006).
angiosperm
A seed-bearing plant with the ovules borne enclosed by a sporophyll whose margins are fused, i.e., the ovules are borne in an ovary.
biosphere
The entire world of living organisms.
community
Any group of organisms belonging to a number of different species that co-occur in the same habitat or area and interact through trophic and spatial relationships.
community structure
Community structure is a set of parameters that we can use to describe a ecological community.
diversity
1) The variety of plant and animal taxa, including genes, amino acids, flowers, species, or populations. 2) The variety of plant and animal communities, forest types, stand conditions, age classes, and landscape components.
Ecological phenomenon is any event - regarding interactions among organisms and their environment - that is observable, however common it might be, even if it requires the use of instrumentation to observe, record, or compile data concerning it.
ecosystem
A complex of organisms and their environment forming a functioning whole.
eukaryote
An organism having eukaryotic cells with true nuclei.
habitat
Environment in a given area occupied by an organism or a group of organisms.
organism
The basic living system, a functional grouping of the lower-level components, including at least one cell.
Any living creature. A plant, animal, or micro-organism.
Um sistema vivo básico, um grupo funcional de componentes básicos, incluindo pelo menos uma célula.
periodicity
Periodicidad
Périodicité
периодичность
Periodicity is used to define events that are recurrent or the repetition of similar events.
plant
Any of a kingdom (Plantae) of living beings typically lacking locomotive movement or obvious sensory organs, generally making its own food, possessing cell walls, and unlimited growth.
Conventionally the term plant implies a taxon with characteristics of multicellularity, cell structure with walls containing cellulose, and organisms capable of photosynthesis. Source: Ecyclopedia of life (www.eol.org/info/449)
plant community
An assemblage of individuals of one or more species that influence one another and modify their environment (after Mueller-Dombois and Ellenberg, 1974).
population
A group of interbreeding organisms not separated by geographic barriers which would inhibit breeding between all individuals.
population density
densidad de población
densité de population
густота популяции
Blackwell’s concise encyclopedia of ecology, 1999
The number of individuals per unit area.
population size
tamaño de la población
taille d'une population
размер популяции
It's the amount of individuals in a population
sample
A part of a population, consisting of one or more units selected and examined as representative of the whole
savanna habitat
It's a terrestrial habitat consisting of grasslands with scattered trees.
seasonal variation
Variación estacional
Variation saisonnière
сезонные изменения
It's the change of climate seasons during a one year period.
specimen
An individual from a scientific sample; sometimes an individual regarded as typical of the group.
terrestrial habitat
It's the terrestrial environment occupied by an organism, population or community.
vascular plant
A general name for any plant that has xylem and phloem.
vegetation
The assemblage of plant species in a given area; also used as a general term for plant life.
vegetation cover
It's the type of the dominant vegetation or the dominant plant-life form in a certain location.
woodland
Woodland is a low-density forest forming open habitats with plenty of sunlight and limited shade. Source: Wikipedia.org
Palm trees are not true wood plants, but with regard to ecological fuction they perform similar function as wood plants do, and contribute for the woody community structure in contrast with grass and herbaceous plants.