Academic title: The academic title signifies an official position or an academic qualification. The academic titles considered are: Civil Engineer (Ir.), Doctor (Dr.), Professor (Prof.), Professor Emeritus (Prof. Em).
BioBel contact: Responsible of the orgunit/project (by default), or person designated by the responsible of the orgunit/project, who is in charge of the management of the orgunit/project page content in BioBel.
Biodiversity: "Biodiversity is the variety of life in all its forms, levels and combinations, encompassing genetic diversity, species diversity and ecosystem diversity" (FAO). We have intentionally excluded GMOs from this definition.
Biodiversity research: Any research activity with a specific objective aimed at improving the knowledge of the components and functioning of biodiversity in the context of nature conservation and sustainable development.
Co-leader: term used when the legal responsibility of the orgunit/project is attributed to more than one person
Cooperation status: classification defining the status of the countries collaborating on the project
Headcount: total number of working staff in the orgunit
High priority country: developing countries with which collaboration is considered as a high priority for biodiversity research in Europe:
Asia (Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Laos, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam)
South America (Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Caribbean Island, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Venezuela, Peru)
Africa (Algeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central Africa Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo Brazzaville, Côte d’Ivoire, DC Congo, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Senegal, Seychelles, South Africa, Tanzania, Tunisia, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe)
Integration levels: classification indicating which level of biodiversity (genetic, specific or ecosystemic) is targeted by the study
Leader: legal responsible of the orgunit/project recognized by the authority of the institution/project funding agency
Member: person who is officially part of an orgunit or person actively taking part in the accomplishment of a project (this person being paid on the project budget or not)
Orgunit: Organizational entity, which can be assigned on different hierarchical level, from an institution to a research unit or laboratory.
Orgunit staff: Group of persons with a status ranging from that of PhD student to that of Professor (including Professor Emeritus) that are officially member of a given orgunit. By default, technicians and masters’ student have have not been included in orgunit staff but can be added by the user if relevant.
Person: Person, assigned to at least one orgunit, who is working in or responsible for biodiversity research.
Project: Any activity, performed in at least one orgunit, with a specific objective related to biodiversity.
Three types of projects are recognized:
Collection: activity consisting in gathering and storing (parts of) organisms in the purpose of studying or illustrating biodiversity
Research theme: research activity with a specific objective related to biodiversity.
Research project: research activity with a specific objective related to biodiversity, resulting from a successful application and characterized by a title, a start/end date, a staff, a funding source and a budget.
Publications: published outcome of a project.
Related unit: orgunit that is linked to another orgunit through history or privileged collaboration
Research disciplines: The ASRC classification, defined according to OECD standards, has been selected to classify the projects according to the scientific disciplines they depend on
Research orientations: The 5 former core projects of DIVERSITAS have been chosen to classify projects according to the aspect of biodiversity research they focus on, ranging from monitoring to conservation actions
Research purposes: CBD articles 6 to 19 have been chosen as classification system to characterize the social purpose of the biodiversity research
Subunit: orgunit that is under the responsibility of a “parent” orgunit
Turnover: total annual working budget of the orgunit
