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Ontology engineering is the set of activities that concern the ontology development process, the ontology life cycle, and the methodologies, tools and languages for building ontologies. (Corcho, Oscar & Fernández-López, Mariano & Gomez-Perez, Asuncion. (2007). Ontological Engineering: What are Ontologies and How Can We Build Them?. Semantic Web Services: Theory, Tools and Applications. 10.4018/978-1-59904-045-5.ch003. )

The branch of zoology that deals with the scientific study of birds. (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ornithology)

The production, distribution, and consumption of fish and seafood and all financial aspects of the fishing and seafood industry. (https://www.eionet.europa.eu/gemet/en/concept/3243)

The range of activities and strategies used to prevent, control, and respond to fires, particularly wildfires, in order to protect people, property, ecosystems, and natural resources. (FAOLEX. 2025. Glossary https://www.fao.org/faolex/)

Forest economics deals with choices about how forests are managed and used; how other factors of production, such as labour and capital, are used in forest production, utilization, and conservation; and what and how much forest products are produced and marketed. Forest economics applies the discipline of economics to decision making in forestry and covers the whole forest sector. (Forest economics. Daowei Zhang and Peter H. Pears, 2011)

Cheese is the ripened or unripened soft, semi-hard, hard, or extra-hard product, which may be coated, and in which the whey protein/casein ratio does not exceed that ofmilk, obtained by: coagulating wholly or partly the protein of milk, skimmed milk, partly skimmed milk, cream, whey cream or buttermilk, or any combination of these materials, through the action of rennet or other suitable coagulating agents, and by partially draining the whey resulting from the coagulation. (Adapted from FAO & WHO. 2022.General Standard for Cheese. Codex Standard, No. CXS 283-1978. Rome. https://www.fao.org/fao-who-codexalimentarius)

Species that are non-native to a particular ecosystem and whose introduction and spread cause, or are likely to cause, socio-cultural, economic or environmental harm or harm to human health. (Forest Resources Assessment (FRA), FAO 2015)

Wildlife management is defined as the application of science-based and local knowledge in the stewardship of wild animal populations (including game) and their habitats in a manner that is beneficial to the environment and to society. (IUFRO, 2017)

A decision support system is an information system that supports business or organizational decision-making activities. (Wikipedia, 2024 Decision support system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decision_support_system)

Biological processes, properties, and characteristics of the whole organism in human, animal, microorganisms, and plants, and of the biosphere. (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/mesh?term=biological%20phenomena)

A property is a characteristic or quality that can be owned or possessed that serves to define or describe its possessor. (FAO. 2022. The AGROVOC Editorial Guidelines 2020 – Second edition. Rome. https://doi.org/10.4060/cb8640en)

Agricultural science is a broad multidisciplinary field of biology that encompasses the parts of exact, natural, economic and social sciences that are used in the practice and understanding of agriculture. (Wikipedia. 2025. Agricultural science https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agricultural_science)

Abnormal condition that has a negative impact on the structure or function of all or part of an organism, generally associated with certain signs and symptoms. (WIPO 2020. WIPO Pearl COVID-19 Glossary https://wipopearl.wipo.int/assets/static/WIPOPearl_COVID-19_Glossary.pdf)

In biology, tissue is a cellular organizational level between cells and a complete organ. A tissue is an ensemble of similar cells and their extracellular matrix from the same origin that together carry out a specific function. Organs are then formed by the functional grouping together of multiple tissues. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tissue_(biology))