This bilingual thesaurus organizes the key concepts of biodiversity sciences, in their basic and applied ecological components. It uses polyhierarchy and includes 818 reciprocal associative relationships. The 1654 French and English descriptors (designating 827 concepts) are enriched with a large number of synonyms (1860) and hidden variants (7020) in both languages. Concepts are grouped into 82 collections, by semantic categories, thematic fields and EBV classes (Essential Biodiversity Variables). Definitions are given with their sources. This resource is aligned with the international thesauri AGROVOC, GEMET (GEneral Multilingual Environmental Thesaurus) and EnvThes (Environmental Thesaurus), as well as with the ontology ENVO (Environment Ontology).

Prefix

biodivthes

License

CC-BY-4.0

Links

Homepage

Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

Missing LUI pattern

Example Local Unique Identifier

K33QZ1W4-D   Resolve

Example CURIE

biodivthes:K33QZ1W4-D

Contact

Biodiversity Thesaurus contact

A summary of the relations in the Bioregistry schema can be found here.

In Collection (1)

NFDI4Biodiversity Collection

Mappings from records in Bioregistry to external registries comprises the metaregistry. This resource has 4 mappings to external registries with 1 unique external prefixes.

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 K33QZ1W4-D is used to demonstrate the providers available for Biodiversity Thesaurus. Some providers may use a different example, which is displayed in the table below. A guide for curating additional providers can be found here.