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In EcoPortal, ontologies are organized in groups and tagged with categories. Typically, groups associate ontologies from the same project or organization for better identification of the provenance. Whereas categories are about subjects/topics and enable to classify ontologies. As of 2016, EcoPortal's categories were established in cooperation with FAO AIMS. In 2024, we moved to UNESCO Thesaurus (https://vocabularies.unesco.org). Groups and categories, along with other metadata, can be used on the “Browse” page of EcoPortal to filter out the list of ontologies.
The science that deals with the relationship of forest trees to their environment, to one another, and to other plants and to animals in the forest.
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The study of the growth, distribution, and organization of human communities relative to their interrelationships with other humans and other species and with their environment.
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The study of landscapes taking account of the ecology of their biological populations. The subjects thus embraces geomorphology and ecology and is applied to the design and architecture of landscapes.
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The study of the feeding relationships of organisms in communities and ecosystems. Trophic links between populations represent flows of organisms, organic energy and nutrients. Trophic transfers are important in population dynamics, biogeochemistry, and ecosystem energetics.
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The application of ecological concepts to fossil and sedimentary evidence to study the interactions of Earth surface, atmosphere, and biosphere in former times.
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Concept derived from biology: the city is viewed as a total environment, as a life-supporting system for the large number of people concentrated there, and within this people organize themselves and adapt to a constantly changing environment. Regarded as the same as human ecology.
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variation in soil life, from genes to communities, and the ecological complexes of which they are part, that is from soil micro-habitats to landscapes
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Planned management (i.e. preservation, maintenance, sustainable use, recovery, enhancement) of a natural resources or of a particular ecosystem to halt, reverse or slow-down the loss of biodiversity from impacts of exploitation, pollution etc. to ensure the future usability of the resource, resilience of communities, and ecosystem integrity.
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