The term refrigeration means cooling a space, substance or system to lower and/or maintain its temperature below the ambient one (while the removed heat is rejected at a higher temperature). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refrigeration)
Re-establishment of a forest stand by natural or artificial means following the removal of the previous stand by felling or as a result of natural causes, e.g. fire or storm. (FAO, 2000)
A regional government usually has the fiscal authority to raise taxes within its territory and should have the ability to spend at least some of its income according to its own policies, and appoint or elect its own officers. (UNESCO Institute for Statistics)
The property of a material or assembly to withstand fire or give protection from it. As applied to elements of buildings, it is characterized by the ability to confine a fire or to continue to perform a given structural function, or both. (Forest Products Laboratory. 2010. Wood handbook - Wood as an engineering material. Gen. Tech. Rep. FPL-GTR-190. Madison, WI: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Forest Products Laboratory)
Ice sheets: a dome-shaped mass of glacier ice that covers surrounding terrain and is greater than 50,000 square kilometers (12 million acres) (e.g., the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets). (https://nsidc.org/cryosphere/glossary/term/ice-sheet)
Regosols are very weakly developed mineral soils in unconsolidated materials that do not have a mollic or umbric horizon, are not very thin or very rich in coarse fragments (Leptosols), not sandy (Arenosols), and not with fluvic materials (Fluvisols). Regosols are extensive in eroding lands and accumulation zones, particularly in arid and semiarid areas and in mountainous terrain. Many Regosols correlate with soil taxa that are marked by incipient soil formation such as Entisols (United States of America), Rudosols (Australia), Regosole (Germany), Sols peu évolués régosoliques d’érosion or even Sols minéraux bruts d’apport éolien ou volcanique (France), Pelozems (Russia) and Neossolos (Brazil). (IUSS Working Group WRB. 2015. World Reference Base for Soil Resources 2014, update 2015 International soil classification system for naming soils and creating legends for soil maps. World Soil Resources Reports No. 106. FAO, Rome.)
A rule or directive made and maintained by a government authority. (FAO and Ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism, the United Republic of Tanzania. 2024. Forests for a sustainable future: education modules for primary schools – Teacher’s book: Module 3 Forests and the climate. Rome. https://doi.org/10.4060/cc4632en)
Robinia hispida, known as the bristly locust, rose-acacia, or moss locust, is a shrub in the subfamily Faboideae of the pea family Fabaceae. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robinia_hispida)
An organism comprised of elements typically foreign to its species. (United States Department of Agriculture, 2019. XENOGENESIS TO IMPROVE ARTIFICIAL SPAWNING OF REPRODUCTIVELY DIFFICULT CATFISH https://portal.nifa.usda.gov/web/crisprojectpages/1005731-xenogenesis-to-improve-artificial-spawning-of-reproductively-difficult-catfish.html)
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The concept of xenogens is related to substances, genes, or organisms that are foreign to the body or system in which they are introduced. This is not the moth genus Xenogenes. For transgenic organisms, see "transgenics" <c_34283>.
A measure of the amount of water present in the air compared to the greatest amount possible for the air to hold at a given temperature, expressed as a percentage. (FAO. 2014. Genebank Standards for Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture. Rev. ed. Rome. https://www.fao.org/3/a-i3704e.pdf)
Religion can be explained as a set of beliefs concerning the cause, nature, and purpose of the universe, especially when considered as the creation of a superhuman agency or agencies, usually involving devotional and ritual observances, and often containing a moral code governing the conduct of human affairs. (BBC. 2014. Religions. [Cited 11 November 2024]. https://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/)
The gathering and analysis of data from the study area or organism that is physically removed from the sensing equipment, e.g. sub-water surface detection instruments, aircraft or satellite. (FAO Fisheries Technical Paper 458, FAO, 2007)
