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TOP
Thesaurus of Plant Characteristics (TOP)
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Last submission date July 11, 2022
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General information

The Thesaurus Of Plant characteristics (TOP), aims to harmonize and formalize concepts for plant characteristics widely used in ecology. TOP concentrates on two types of plant characteristics: traits and environmental associations. Characteristics are modelled as the ‘Quality’ of an ‘Entity’ used in the context of Open Biological Ontologies. Whenever possible, the Entities and Qualities are taken from existing terminology standards, mainly the Plant Ontology (PO) and Phenotypic Quality Ontology (PATO) ontologies. TOP provides names, definitions, units, synonyms and related terms for about 850 plant characteristics. See more...
Initial created on February 26, 2018. For additional information, contact éric Garnier (eric.garnier@cefe.cnrs.fr) and Baptiste Laporte (baptiste.laporte@fondationbiodiversite.fr).

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Keywords and classes

biodiversity
ecology
plant characteristics
plant environmental association
plant trait
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Total score : 234.0 ( 48.0%)
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URI

http://localhost:8080/opentheso2
http://localhost:8080/opentheso2

Other identifier

http://top-thesaurus.org/trait#
http://top-thesaurus.org/trait#

Dates

Creation date

February 26, 2018

Submission date

July 11, 2022

Modification date

August 9, 2022

Persons and organizations

Contact

Éric Garnier
Baptiste Laporte

Contributor

Bill Shipley
Hans Cornelissen
Natalia Pérez-Harguindeguy
Christian Wirth
Sandra Díaz
Farshid Ahrestani
Dan Bunker
Stefan Klotz
Michael Kleyer
Mark Schildhauer
Gerhard Bönisch
Jens Kattge
Baptiste Laporte
Lutz Maicher
Bernard Amiaud
Marie-Angélique Laporte
Sophie Gachet
Ulrike Stahl
Isabelle Mougenot
Éric Garnier
Hendrik Poorter
Pedro Jaureguiberry
Ingolf Kühn
Brian Enquist
Cyrille Violle
Sandra Lavorel
Ian Wright.
Evan Weiher

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Harmonizing definitions of concepts, as proposed by TOP, forms the basis for better integration of data across heterogeneous data sets and terminologies, thereby increasing the potential for data reuse. It also allows enhanced scientific synthesis. TOP therefore has the potential to improve research and communication not only within the field of ecology, but also in related fields with interest in plant functioning and distribution.

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Example of resource

http://top-thesaurus.org/trait#TOP598
http://top-thesaurus.org/trait#TOP598

Metadata vocabulary used

local:local

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