Ecolingua: a formal ontology for data in ecology

ecolingua is an ontology for ecological quantitative data, which has been designed through reuse of a conceptualisation of quantities and their physical dimensions provided by the engmath family of ontologies. a hierarchy of ecological quantity classes is presented together with their definition axioms in first-order logic. an implementation-level application of the ontology is discussed, by way of which conceptual ecological models are synthesised from data annotations in ecolingua through reuse of existing model structures.