Registry Biological and Environmental Research Variable Ontology

A representation of variables appearing in models in the environmental research space.

Prefix
bervo
Preferred Prefix
BERVO
Keywords
ontology
Version
2026-05-20
Links
Homepage Repository OBO OWL OBO JSON
Identifier Standards
Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

Local identifiers in Biological and Environmental Research Variable Ontology should match this regular expression:
^\d{7}$

Example Local Unique Identifier
0000001   Resolve
Pattern for CURIES

Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from Biological and Environmental Research Variable Ontology should match this regular expression:
^BERVO:\d{7}$

Example CURIE
BERVO:0000001
Contacts
Mappings to External Registries

Mappings from records in Bioregistry to external registries comprises the metaregistry. This resource has 2 mappings to external registries with 1 unique external prefixes.

Registry Name Registry Metaprefix External Prefix Curate
AberOWL AberOWL logo aberowl BERVO
BioPortal BioPortal Prefixes logo bioportal BERVO
Providers

A provider turns a local unique identifiers from a resource into a URI. Many providers are also resolvable as URLs (i.e., they can be used in a web browser).

The local unique identifier 0000001 is used to demonstrate the providers available for Biological and Environmental Research Variable Ontology. Some providers may use a different example, which is displayed in the table below. A guide for curating additional providers can be found here.

Provider Name Provider Code URI
Biological and Environmental Research Variable Ontology bervo https://w3id.org/bervo/BERVO_0000001
Bioregistry bioregistry https://bioregistry.io/bervo:0000001