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December 11, 2009
Summary of initial keyword situation
An interesting question has arisen while formatting the Biological Station bibliography. What to do with all of those keywords? A quick and dirty analysis shows the keyword list from the bibliography has the following attributes:
3158 - number of keywords in the UMBS bibliography
2562 - number of keywords in the UMBS bibliography used 5 times or less
639 - number of keywords in the LTER Keyword list (v.0.9)
283 - number of overlapping keywords between UMBS and LTER lists
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Here is a list of the 100 most used keywords in the UMBS Bibliography:
| invertebrates | 488 |
| parasites | 355 |
| insects | 317 |
| aquatic | 277 |
| birds | 272 |
| distribution | 270 |
| water | 267 |
| species | 260 |
| behavior | 252 |
| plants | 234 |
| trematodes | 231 |
| description | 229 |
| forest | 213 |
| history | 192 |
| vascular | 176 |
| carbon | 148 |
| fungi | 148 |
| life | 144 |
| chemistry | 141 |
| snails | 141 |
| algae | 132 |
| succession | 127 |
| fishes | 124 |
| nutrients | 122 |
| vegetation | 119 |
| communities | 118 |
| breeding | 114 |
| growth | 105 |
| nesting | 104 |
| temperature | 100 |
| populus | 99 |
| change | 97 |
| nitrogen | 94 |
| bryophytes | 92 |
| dioxide | 87 |
| protozoans | 86 |
| mosses | 85 |
| reproductive | 84 |
| artificial | 82 |
| climate | 81 |
| success | 80 |
| development | 76 |
| diatoms | 75 |
| limnology | 75 |
| substrates | 75 |
| chemical | 74 |
| morphology | 74 |
| coleoptera | 71 |
| diptera | 71 |
| global | 71 |
| quality | 71 |
| soils | 71 |
| variation | 70 |
| aspen | 69 |
| biology | 69 |
| ecology | 68 |
| colonization | 67 |
| flora | 67 |
| vertebrates | 67 |
| benthic | 66 |
| predation | 65 |
| taxonomy | 64 |
| infection | 63 |
| population | 63 |
| biomass | 62 |
| production | 62 |
| trees | 62 |
| schistosomes | 61 |
| crustaceans | 60 |
| beetles | 58 |
| herbivory | 58 |
| size | 58 |
| larus | 57 |
| gulls | 55 |
| range | 55 |
| atmospheric | 54 |
| composition | 54 |
| deposition | 54 |
| feeding | 54 |
| periphyton | 54 |
| photosynthesis | 51 |
| acer | 50 |
| amphibians | 50 |
| lepidoptera | 50 |
| snakes | 50 |
| habitat | 49 |
| organic | 49 |
| wetlands | 49 |
| key | 48 |
| streams | 48 |
| leaf | 47 |
| structure | 47 |
| competition | 46 |
| light | 46 |
| mammals | 46 |
| molluscs | 46 |
| stagnicola | 46 |
| larvae | 45 |
| rana | 45 |
Posted by kkwaiser at December 11, 2009 12:52 PM