Table 1.

Table of common relationship types in ecology and evolution, and example texts. Italics are species names, underlining are the entities, bold are the relations.

example of relation	example text
measurements and units	‘The average length of human gestation is 280 days'
model-specific parameters	‘R0 was estimated to be 1.13’
species interactions	‘Anoplocephala manubriata parasitizes Asian elephants’
protein–protein interactions	‘Pleiotropic drug resistance 1p (Pdr1p) regulates Pdr5p’
habitat associations	‘Ribes mandschuricum is found in shady areas’
species occurrences	‘Cercopia moths were collected from sites throughout Massachusetts ‘
Linnaean taxonomy/common names/synonyms	‘Boops boops, commonly called the bogue, is a species of seabream native to the eastern Atlantic’
anthropogenic impacts	‘Inversodicraea botswana is threatened by sewage discharge’