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What is an Element?

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What is an Element?

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The Nature Conservancy coined this term in the United States. An element is a unit of natural biological diversity. Elements represent species (or infraspecific taxa), natural communities, or other non-taxonomic biological entities (e.g. migratory species aggregation areas, bat hibernacula).

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A tag in an XML file. An element is similar in concept to a field in a database record or to a MARC tag. An element contains a specific kind of information, formatted in a consistent way.