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In the TERN Ontology, a Feature of Interest (FOI) is an ecological scale (e.g. plant individual, animal population, soil, climate). Observations are grouped by ecological scales and the FOI type and feature identifier are returned for each observation. TERN’s LinkedData site has more information about Features of Interest.
Every instance of a FOI may have has additional attributes related exclusively to that instance. For example, the FOI is an individual plant, and there can be multiple instances of the FOI such as a specific tree or plant (tree1, tree2, tree3, etc).
This information can be accessed via the /foi/attributes endpoint.
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