Glossary R
Deutsch: Abwehrmittel / Español: Repelente / Português: Repelente / Français: Répulsif / Italiano: Repellente
Repellent in the environmental context refers to substances or strategies used to deter or discourage unwanted organisms, such as insects, animals, or plants, from specific areas or resources. Repellents are often employed to protect crops, prevent disease transmission, or manage human-wildlife conflicts without causing harm to the target species or the Environment.
The Reporting Limit is the minimum value below which data are documented as non-detected.
A Representative Sample is a subset of a population that is supposed to reflect what should occur under normal operating conditions.
The Reproducibility is the precision, usually expressed as variance, which measures the variability or closeness among the results of measurements of the same sample at different laboratories by different operators.
Deutsch: Fortpflanzung / Español: Reproducción / Português: Reprodução / Français: Reproduction / Italiano: Riproduzione
Reproduction (or procreation) refers to the biological process by which new individual organisms are produced from one or more extant organisms of the same species. Reproduction is a fundamental feature of all known life; all extant organisms exist as a result of it. There are two forms of reproduction, sexual and asexual.