abundance_element_id

Primary key (automatically incremented).

Insect related abundance_element_id terms:

(record_type_id = 1)

abundance_element_id	element_name	element_description
1	Whole arthropod	A complete, or near complete, insect or similar individual
5	MNI	Minimum Number of Individuals - an estimation of the number of whole animals represented by the collective parts found.
6	Left elytron	Left wing case.
7	Right elytron	Right wing case.
8	Thorax	NULL
9	Head	NULL
10	Body segment (other)	NULL
11	Leg	NULL
17	Aedeagus	Reproductive organ of male insect.

Plant related abundance_element_id terms:

(record_type_id = 2)

abundance_element_id	element_name	element_description
2	Pollen grain	Whole or partial pollen grain
3	Leaf	Whole or partial leaf
4	Seed grain	An individual or partial sead grain
12	Flower	NULL
13	Leaf bud	NULL
18	Needle	Foliage element of pine, spruce and other needle bearing plants.
19	Cone	Seed releasing body of coniferous plants.
20	Flower bud	NULL
21	Flower	NULL
22	Leaf sheath	Lower part of the leaf, sometimes surrounding the stem.
23	Culm node (solid)	Place on a plant stem where a leaf is attached, solid stem part.
24	Culm node (hollow)	Place on a plant stem where a leaf is attached, hollow stem part.
25	Culm node (undefined)	Place on a plant stem where a leaf is attached, stem part indeterminate or both solid and hollow node parts.
26	Ear	NULL
27	Spikelet	Flowers of the grasses, cereals etc.
28	Chaff	Broken lemmas, glumes etc. Commonly unwanted products of threshing.
29	Awn fragment	NULL
30	Spikelet fork	NULL
31	Rachis fragment	A fragment part of a segment from the main axis of the cereal/grass spike to which the spikelets are attached.
32	Glume base	NULL
33	Rachis segment(S)	Part(s) of the main axis of the cereal/grass spike to which the spikelets are attached.
34	Palea	NULL
35	Lemma	NULL
36	Glume	NULL
37	Whole plant	Tree/bush/plant
39	Shell	Hard casing of nut, fruit stone or similar
40	Berry	Fruiting body (i.e. pulp and seed or seedless body, but not only seeds)
41	Stem	Over ground structural component of plant (note: use other terms for woody plant twigs, branches etc)
42	Twig	Small terminal branch of woody plant
43	Bark	Outermost layer of woody plant stem or root
44	Wood	Structural tissue of woody plant, e.g. wood chips or bits in soil samples (note: use twig for small branches)
45	Root	Supporting and most commonly underground structural part of plant with the function of absorbing water and nutrients from the soil. (Variation in function and relation to ground occur).
46	Corm (Root bulb/root tuber)	Tuber/bulb-like structure on the roots of some cultivated plants (e.g. Arrhenatherum elatius var. bulbosum)
47	Cone scale	Individual plate on a cone
48	Endosperm	Internal part of seed, usually providing starch (nutrition) for the initial growth of the plant
49	Straw	Grassy cultivated plant (mainly cereal) stem(s)

other recorded types of abundance_element_id terms:

record_type_id	abundance_element_id	element_name	element_description
3	16	Spore	NULL
3	38	Unknown	Unidentified ~pollen sized fossil
4	14	Shell	NULL
8	15	Carapace	Dorsal section of arthropod exoskeleton or shell, plus some vertebrates such as turtles.