Land-use system in which woody perennials are used on the same land as agricultural crops and animals, in some form of spatial arrangement or temporal sequence. In fire management, agrosilvopastoral systems are planted on fuelbreaks (particularly shaded fuelbreaks) to reduce fire risk by modifying understory vegetation and soil cover. (TRG(A10.6)/GICM, FAO, 2005. Wildland Fire Management Terminology, FAO (Updated Jan 2005).)
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Systems including trees or shrubs, and pastures or animals
Land that has not been used for agricultural purposes or disturbed by humans at all. (IRRI, 2002. Acronyms and Glossary of
Rice Related Terminology http://www.knowledgebank.irri.org/images/docs/acronyms-and-glossary-of-rice-related-terminology.pdf)
The study of the structure, growth, function, genetics, and reproduction of viruses, and virus diseases. (MeSH. 2025. Virology. https://meshb-prev.nlm.nih.gov/record/ui?ui=D014773)
An instrument for measuring the pressure of the atmosphere. (Global Fire Monitoring Center, 2011. International multilingual forest fire terminology. http://www.fire.uni-freiburg.de/literature/RUS-MON-GER-ENG-Glossary-Web.pdf)
The degree of pathogenicity caused by an infectious organism, as indicated by the severity of the disease produced and its ability to invade the tissues of the host; the competence of any infectious agent to produce pathologic effects. (FAO. 2008. Glossary of aquaculture. https://openknowledge.fao.org/handle/20.500.14283/a1555m)
Microscopic infectious agent that can multiply only in living cells of animals, plants, or bacteria, consisting of genetic material, either DNA or RNA, housed inside a capsid. (WIPO 2020. WIPO Pearl COVID-19 Glossary https://wipopearl.wipo.int/assets/static/WIPOPearl_COVID-19_Glossary.pdf)
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The taxonomic classification of viruses is the responsibility of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV).
The assessment that increases in output produced by a project using the least cost method will recover costs, provide an additional required rate of return, and sustain effective production in the face of uncertainty and risk. (http://www.adb.org/documents/guidelines/Eco_Analysis/glossary.asp)
Visibility is a measure of the distance at which an object or light can be seen. (Adapted from Wikipedia. 2025. Visibility (disambiguation) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visibility_(disambiguation))
A cobalt-containing coordination compound produced by intestinal micro-organisms and found also in soil and water. (National Library of Medicine. MeSH (Medical Subject Headings), Vitamin B 12 MeSH Descriptor Data 2024, https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/M0022794.html)
Regions where the climate is intermediate between semiarid and humid, and the precipitation supports dense growth of tall or short grasses, but not forests. (Source: MMA, draft based on CBD and USDA. https://www.informea.org/en/terms/sub-humid-zone)
