Solid block designed for controlled release of active ingredient into water. (FAO/WHO. 2016. Manual on development and use of FAO and WHO specifications for pesticides. 1st Edition, 3rd revision, FAO, Rome. Available online: http://www.fao.org/agriculture/crops/thematic-sitemap/theme/pests/jmps/manual/en/)
Village/Community based breeding programs are organized breeding activities that are planned, designed and implemented by smallholder farmers individually or in cooperation with technical stakeholders to effect genetic improvement within their livestock. (https://doi.org/10.15406/mojcrr.2018.01.00036)
Any building or part of a building used for storage at temperatures controlled by refrigeration at -1WIC or lower. (Freezing and refrigerated storage in fisheries, FAO Fisheries Technical Paper No. 340, FAO, 1994 (http://www.fao.org/docrep/003/v3630e/v3630e08.htm).)
Climatic regions where the air temperature is below 10° Celsius for eight to eleven months of the year. (Adapted from GEMET: https://www.eionet.europa.eu/gemet/en/concept/1559)
Liquid which drains from a manure pile kept in the open, mostly composed of animal urine and more or less diluted by rain water. (Clément, J-M. (coord.) (1981) Larousse agricole. Paris, Librairie Larousse. 1208 p.)
Coleoptera (beetles and weevils) is the largest order in the class Insecta. As adults, most beetles have a hard, dense exoskeleton that covers and protects most of their body surface. (NC State University. 2024. Coleoptera. [Cited 19 November 2024]. https://genent.cals.ncsu.edu/insect-identification/order-coleoptera/)
Varves are seasonal sediment alternations which appear to represent annual cycles. They are widely studied and correlated, because seasons cause sedimentary variations that repeat. (http://www.geo.mtu.edu/KeweenawGeoheritage/Glaciers/Varves.html)
A symptom of abdominal (belly) pain. (Adapted from University of Liverpool. 2024. What is colic? https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/equine/common-conditions/colic/what-is-colic/)
Mass extinctions are defined as “any substantial increase in the amount of extinction (lineage termination) suffered by more than one geographically wide-spread higher taxon during a relatively short interval of geologic time, resulting in an at least temporary decline in their standing diversity”. (Sepkoski, 1986, p. 278))
