Resource

{
  "id": "MLC-T-ENV-024080",
  "term": "Resource",
  "field": "Environment",
  "definition": "1. Anything used by organisms to meet their needs, including air, water, minerals, plants, fuels, and other animals.\n\n2. In EMAP, an ecological entity that is identified as a target of sampling and is a group of general, broad ecosystem types or ecological entities sharing certain basic characteristics. Seven such categories currently are identified within EMAP: estuaries, Great Lakes, inland surface waters, wetlands, forests, arid ecosystems, and agroecosystems. These categories define the organizational structure of monitoring groups in EMAP and are the resources addressed by EMAP assessments. A resource can be characterized as belonging to one of two types, discrete and extensive, that pose different problems of sampling and representation.\n\n3. Any software or business tool, component or service (such as XML schema, Web services and widgets).\n\n4. Material or energy entering the system being studied that has been drawn from the environment without previous human transformation [Original source: https://ilca.es/teaching-materials/common-glossary/#E1].",
  "subject": "Ecosystems",
  "references": [
    "Nearshore Terrestrial Ecosystems Glossary",
    "Environmental Modeling and Assessment Program (EMAP) Master Glossary",
    "Reusable Component Services (RCS) Glossary",
    "Federal LCA Commons Elementary Flow List for Life Cycle Assessment"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/environment/resource/"
}