The state or condition in which individuals or communities lack the financial resources, basic necessities, or access to essential services needed to meet their basic living standards. (FAOLEX. 2025. Glossary https://www.fao.org/faolex/)
Nearly level or rolling grassland, originally treeless or with a few scattered trees, and usually on fertile soils. It may be characterized as a short-grass, intermediate-grass, or tall-grass prairie depending on the influence of a continental climate and variation in total summer precipitation, rate of evapo-transpiration, periodic fire and soil depth. Soil depth and precipitation generally increase from west to east and vegetation changes from short-grass prairie in the west to tall-grass prairie in the east. (Example: North America). (Allen, Vivien & Batello, Caterina & Berretta, E.J. & J, Hodgson & Kothmann, M.M. & X, Li & J, McIvor & J, Milne & Morris, Craig & Peeters, Alain & Sanderson, Matt. (2011). An International Terminology for Grazing Lands and Grazing Animals. Grass and Forage Science. 66. 2-28. 10.1111/j.1365-2494.2010.00780.x. )
Compounds of chlorine with another element or group. (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, 2024. Environmental Health Sciences Glossary https://www.niehs.nih.gov/health/topics/glossary citing U.S. National Library of Medicine)
Arkansas is a landlocked state in the West South Central region of the Southern United States. It borders Missouri to the north, Tennessee and Mississippi to the east, Louisiana to the south, Texas to the southwest, and Oklahoma to the west. (Wikipedia. 2025.Arkansas. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkansas)
Programmes at the initial stage of organized instruction, primarily designed to introduce very young children, aged at least 3 years, to a school-type environment and provide a bridge between home and school. (UNESCO. 2007. Strong Foundations: Early Childhood Care and Education; EFA Global Monitoring Report, 2007. Paris: UNESCO https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000147794.)
Any or all of the forms of water, whether liquid (i.e., rain or drizzle) or solid (e.g., snow or hail), that fall from the atmosphere and reach the ground. (FAOTERM)
Predation is a series of behaviors undertaken by predators to hunt for food, mainly involving catching, processing, searching, chasing, and ingestion. (Ocean Acidification and Marine Wildlife, 2021 https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-822330-7.00007-1)
A natural enemy that preys and feeds on other animal organisms, more than one of which are killed during its lifetime. (IPPC Secretariat. 2021. Glossary of phytosanitary terms. International Standard for Phytosanitary Measures No. 5. Rome. FAO on behalf of the Secretariat of the International Plant Protection Convention. https://assets.ippc.int/static/media/files/publication/en/2021/05/ISPM_05_2021_En_Glossary_2021-05-27_PostCPM-15_Fixed.pdf)
Predatory birds are predators of higher trophic levels that act to maintain the balance of ecosystems. (Teixeira, Camila & Gondim, Maria. (2017). Occupancy of environments and indices of occurrence of raptors in peri-urban area of Uberlândia – MG. 10.13140/RG.2.2.29609.29289.)
The status during which female mammals carry their developing young (embryos or fetuses) in utero before birth, beginning from fertilization to birth. (MeSH. 2025. Pregnancy. https://meshb-prev.nlm.nih.gov/record/ui?ui=D011247)
Conditions or pathological processes associated with pregnancy. They can occur during or after pregnancy, and range from minor discomforts to serious diseases that require medical interventions. They include diseases in pregnant females, and pregnancies in females with diseases. (MeSH. 2025. Pregnancy Complications. https://meshb-prev.nlm.nih.gov/record/ui?ui=D011248)
