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Utilisé pour : Field Book

• Field books are original records of scientific discovery. They are scientific tools to make and record observations. Field notes are the specific, raw qualitative and quantitative observations recorded inside it.
• They provide rich data for researchers to understand how biodiversity has changed over time and space. They enhance information associated with specimens by providing details regarding dates, localities, and associated event data. For example, field diary entries may describe habitats, meteorological events, personal observations, and emotional declarations. These additional data allow other experts to assess the value of specimens, as well as use information in new ways: reconstructing historical ecologies, clarifying specimens' provenance, and re-discovering localities.

Utilisé pour : Ceremonies, Social customs, Social life and customs, Folkways, Traditions

• Here are entered general works on folkways, customs, ceremonies, festivals, popular traditions, etc., treated collectively.

• Fungi are eukaryotic organisms; i.e., their cells contain membrane-bound organelles and clearly defined nuclei.
• organisms of the kingdom Fungi, which includes the yeasts, rusts, smuts, mildews, molds, and mushrooms. There are also many funguslike organisms, including slime molds and oomycetes (water molds), that do not belong to kingdom Fungi but are often called fungi; many of these funguslike organisms are included in the kingdom Chromista. Fungi are among the most widely distributed organisms on Earth and are of great environmental and medical importance. Many fungi are free-living in soil or water; others form parasitic or symbiotic relationships with plants or animals.

Utilisé pour : eating, food customs

• subdivision [Food] under ethnic groups

Utilisé pour : Languages

• Here are entered works on language in general, works on the origin and history of language, and surveys of languages. Works dealing with the scientific study of human speech, including phonetics, phonemics, morphology and syntax, are entered under [Linguistics.]

Utilisé pour : herbariums

• Here are entered works on collections of dried plant specimens, usually mounted and arranged for botanical reference. Works on individual herbaria are entered under the name of the herbarium.

• visual representation of the complete set of chromosomes in a cell. In a karyotype, the chromosomes, isolated from a cell, are organized numerically, facilitating the identification of deviations in chromosome number or structure.

• any of numerous complex plant-like organisms made up of an alga or a cyanobacterium and a fungus growing in symbiotic association on a solid surface (such as on a rock or the bark of trees)

• A family of flowering plants, ranging from small herbaceous plants to shrubs.
• The family Montiaceae was newly adopted in the APG III system and includes members of the Caryophyllales formerly listed in Portulacaceae

Utilisé pour : club moss

• Family of seedless vascular plants constituting the only family of the lycophyte order Lycopodiales. The taxonomy of the family has been contentious, and the number of genera vary depending on the source. The plants are native mainly to tropical mountains but are also common in northern forests of both hemispheres.