A brittle bluish-white metallic element that becomes coated with a corrosion-resistant layer in moist air and occurs chiefly in sphalerite and smithsonite. It is a constituent of several alloys, especially brass and nickel-silver, and is used in die-casting, galvanizing metals, and in battery electrodes. (CED/GEMET)
A metal sulfate compound having zinc(2+) as the counterion. (Chemical Entities of Biological Interest (ChEBI). HEBI:35176 - zinc sulfate. https://www.ebi.ac.uk/chebi/searchId.do?chebiId=CHEBI:35176)
The Beaufort Sea is a marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean, located north of the Northwest Territories, Yukon, and Alaska, and west of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. (Wikipedia. 2025. Beaufort Sea. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaufort_Sea)
Forest management is the process of planning and implementing practices for the stewardship and use of forests to meet specific environmental, economic, social and cultural objectives. It deals with the administrative, economic, legal, social, technical and scientific aspects of managing natural and planted forests. (FAO. 2025. Sustainable forest management http://www.fao.org/forestry/sfm/85084/en/)
It is a wild grass found in the USA with grains similar to those of rice. (IRRI, 2002. Acronyms and Glossary of Rice Related Terminology http://www.knowledgebank.irri.org/images/docs/acronyms-and-glossary-of-rice-related-terminology.pdf)
Period between infection with a parasite and the production of eggs by a female; equivalent to the incubation period of microbial infections, but biologically different because the parasite is going through developmental stages in the host. (NALT https://lod.nal.usda.gov/nalt/34028)
Scientists who study zoology. Zoologists and wildlife biologists study animals, those both in captivity and in the wild, and how they interact with their ecosystems. (Adapted from U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. 2025. Zoologists and Wildlife Biologists. https://www.bls.gov/ooh/life-physical-and-social-science/zoologists-and-wildlife-biologists.htm)
The study of animals - their morphology, growth, distribution, classification, and behavior (http://www.nlm.nih.gov/cgi/mesh/2010/MB_cgi?mode=&index=14454&field=all&HM=&II=&PA=&form=&input=)
Activity that combines two or more neighbouring cadastral parcels. (Cadastre and Land Administration Thesaurus (CaLAThe), 2024. Amalgamation. http://www.cadastralvocabulary.org/CaLAThe/Amalgamation)
