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TOP
Thesaurus of Plant Characteristics (TOP)
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Last submission date February 26, 2018
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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

Categories and subjects

Biodiv
Eco
Pheno
Plant
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Total score : 259.0 ( 54.0%)
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Submissions

Identifiers

URI

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

Other identifier

http://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.12698
http://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.12698

AgroPortal URI

https://agroportal.lirmm.fr/ontologies/TOP
https://agroportal.lirmm.fr/ontologies/TOP

Dates

Creation date

February 26, 2018

Submission date

February 26, 2018

Persons and organizations

Contact

Éric Garnier
Baptiste Laporte

Contributor

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

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Projects and usage information

Projects using TOP

Agrisemantics Map of Data Standards
Data to Knowledge in Agronomy and Biodiversity
TRY - Plant Trait Database

Known usage

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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Community

Groups

Data to Knowledge in Agronomy and Biodiversity
GDR SemanDiv

Content

Preferred namespace URI

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

Preferred namespace prefix

top

Example of resource

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

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