Biological dispersal refers to both the movement of individuals (animals, plants, fungi, bacteria, etc.) from their birth site to their breeding site, as well as the movement from one breeding site to another. Dispersal is also used to describe the movement of propagules such as seeds and spores. (EnvThes - Thesaurus for long term ecological research, monitoring and experiments, 2024. Dispersal. http://vocabs.lter-europe.net/EnvThes/21038)
Authigenic minerals are minerals that are formed in sediment or a sedimentary rock. (http://boles.faculty.geol.ucsb.edu/pdf/84a-%20Authigenic%20Minerals.pdf)
Guinea millet (Urochloa deflexa) is a minor cereal of dry areas in sub-Sahelian Western Africa. Guinea millet cultivation is confined to the Fouta-Djallon plateau of Guinea and Sierra Leone. (Adapted from FAO and ICRISAT, 1996. The World Sorghum and Millet Economies: Facts, Trends and Outlook. https://www.fao.org/3/w1808e/w1808e00.htm )
A heterotroph is an organism that cannot produce its own food, instead taking nutrition from other sources of organic carbon, mainly plant or animal matter. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heterotroph)
Abandoned land refers to real property, such as plots of vacant land, buildings, or other structures, whose owners have relinquished ownership rights. This can happen either voluntarily, through explicit statements, or involuntarily, through extended lack of use, failure to pay property taxes, or other obligations of property ownership as determined by state law. Unoccupied land refers to land that is undeveloped, unused, and has no structures or improvements built on it. It is essentially land that is not currently being used or inhabited by people. (FAOLEX. 2025. Glossary https://www.fao.org/faolex/)
Non-nucleated disk-shaped cells formed in the megakaryocyte and found in the blood of all mammals. They are mainly involved in blood coagulation. (MeSH. 2025. Blood Platelets. https://meshb.nlm.nih.gov/record/ui?ui=D001792)
Any characteristic or condition of soil - generally physical or chemical, that influences organisms. (FAO Language Resources Project, 2005; IUFRO, Vienna, 2005.)
