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A collection of textual glosses or of specialized terms with their meanings.
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AFT
The database provides detailed information on 670 agroforestry tree species in order to help field workers and researchers in selecting appropriate species for agroforestry systems and technologies...
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American Meteorological Society (AMS)
In 1959, the AMS published the Glossary of Meteorology. Containing 7900 terms, more than 10,000 copies have been sold over four decades through five printings. It is a tribute to the editors of that...
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CLIPC Consortium
CLIPC (Constructing Europe's Climate Information Portal) is an EC FP7 project giving access to data from satellite and in-situ observations, climate models and re-analyses, as well as transformed...
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Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Definitions and Classification of Land Use, Agricultural Practices and Irrigation. Used in FAOSTAT.
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Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
The 'Glossary of Biotechnology for Food and Agriculture' is a revised, augmented version of the 'Glossary of Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering' published by FAO in 1999. The idea for such a...
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Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
FAOLEX is a comprehensive and up-to-date computerized legislative database, one of the world's largest electronic collection of national laws and regulations on food, agriculture and renewable...
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FishBase Information and Research Group (FIN)
The Fishbase Glossary contains definitions of more than 2,600 terms related to ichthyology, taxonomy, ecology, conservation, population dynamics, genetics, oceanography, geography and related...
FIGIS
Publisher(s) / Maintainer(s):
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
The fisheries glossary is a multilingual glossary which provides definitions related to the field of responsible (sustainable) fisheries development and management (including science and technology...
FOLA
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Focus on Land in Africa
Focus on Land in Africa has published a glossary of almost 100 key terms on land governance and land tenure. This glossary is used as a resource tool in itself, to show users how the authors of the...
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British Columbia Ministry of Forests and Range
A compilation of forestry terms commonly used by the British Columbia Ministry of Forests and Range. The definitions are provided for information only.
GLII
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Global Land Tool Network
The GLII glossary of terms is not available publicly yet, but will be published as a glossary of core land-related terms that will be used as a mechanism to compare progress of countries with regards...
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Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
The FAO Fisheries Department has published a multilingual Glossary of Aquaculture containing, at the time of publication 2958 terms with definitions, synonyms, related terms, information sources and...
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United States Environment Protection Agency
Glossary of Climate Change Terms is maintained by US Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) and defines terms used in relation to climate change.
ISPM
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Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
This reference standard presents a list of terms and definitions with specific meaning to plant quarantine personnel worldwide. It has been developed to provide an internationally recognized...
Allows to: search the database, search genetic terms by picking from an alphabetical list of terms, search for the newest terms of the database.
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International Geosphere–Biosphere Programme (IGBP)
The International Geosphere–Biosphere Programme (IGBP) defines ecosystems surface classifications.
ISI Glossary
The present version of the ISI Multilingual Glossary of Statistical Terms is a continuation of the Internet usage and is intended to demonstrate the versatility of the information gathered, as well...
LC-CCI
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Climate Change Initiative (CCI)
The Climate Change Initiative (CCI) generates global Land Cover (LC) products with climatological 7-day time series representing seasonal dynamics of the land surface, Medium Resolution Imaging...
WCA LU
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Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
FAO guidelines for countries to compile ther agricultural census statistics. The use of these guidelines by member countries ensures that the census results are harmonized and internationally...
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International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO)
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
A result of a cooperation programme between the FAO Forestry Department and the IUFRO SilvaVoc Terminology Project. Available in English, French, Spanish and German.
includes picture and pronunciation of the term, mainaintained by Kathie T. Hodge
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Renewable Energy & Energy Efficiency Partnership
Details terms used in the climate and REEEP project.
Some relations
Climate Tagger
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Statistical Commission of the United Nations
Land cover being altogether the observed image of ecosystems and of the effects of land use, practical classification may put the emphasis either on vegetation forms or on landscape features shaped...
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Statistical Commission of the United Nations
A consolidated land use classification to be used in the System of Integrated Environmental and Economic Accounting (SEEA), based on the major LU databases at the global level and the work of FAO...
definitions do not constitute the Agency's official use of terms and phrases for regulatory purposes
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International Statistics Institute
The ISI glossary of statistical terms in a number of languages some of which use special characters
Glossary of terms used in timber harvesting and forest engineering.
The terms in this glossary are valuable to practicing biologists and paleontologists in various fields. It can be browsed alphabetically or by volume.
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World Meteorological Organization
METEOTERM is the WMO terminology database. It contains specialized terminology in six languages: English, Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian and Spanish. It includes the International Meteorological...