ClosedTopicStandardNamesForAbundanceStates

Are there any standard English names for the basic states of an Abundance character? This might be a place there could be mild agreement on some globally defined state names and their semantics (or lack thereof).

-- BobMorris - 25 Mar 2004

I am not sure what you mean: do you mean a frequency modifier (frequently/usually/rarely) applied to a character state (-> "usually brown legs"), or do you mean the abundance of biological taxa in a geographic range?

Regarding the first: it would be good to define a template frequency modifier list and prepare it for multiple audience representations to save time when setting up a project. There is a proposal when discussing modifiers on the SDD pages: Frequency modifiers, see also Modifier overview.

The latter could be defined as a template concept. I have no proposal so far for the latter, please do submit one!

-- Gregor Hagedorn - 15. May 2004