habitat

Term name: [habitat]
| In Darwin Core:

Darwin Core definition:
A category or description of the habitat in which the Event occurred.

Apple Core guidelines
The habitat is the ecological or environmental area in which the specimen was collected and may be explicitly provided on the label. If habitat is provided on the label, report this value. Habitat can be derived from the locality. If habitat information is standardized in any form it is recommended to report habitat according to a published source and write that interpretation in square brackets.


 * verbatimLocality and habitat can overlap
 * preferred to use verbatim values, but controlled vocabulary can be used.

Controlled vocabulary:
A number of controlled vocabularies for habitat exist (see Other resources), but the community has not coalesced around a single standard.