[tdwg-content] New terms need resolution: "Individual"
Gregor Hagedorn
g.m.hagedorn at gmail.com
Thu Jul 14 11:51:47 CEST 2011
On 14 July 2011 08:41, Richard Pyle <deepreef at bishopmuseum.org> wrote:
> My turn to disagree (strongly, in this case). It's not an instance of a
> taxon, it's an instance of an Organism. A taxon is merely a non-factual
> (i.e., opinion-based) attribute of an organism, secondarily associated via
> an Identification instance.
WIth respect to organism: strictly, Viruses are not organisms, but I
could live with that.
But the goal is to find a term including population. Population
definitely is not an organism.
I believe the instances of taxon are organisms, populations, individuals.
Gregor
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