tesela

English translation: tessella

16:34 Jan 11, 2021
Spanish to English translations [PRO]
Science - Environment & Ecology / Conservation status
Spanish term or phrase: tesela
I'm translating a document which is discussing the conservation status of the dehesa in Extremadura, mostly in terms of trees and shrubs, and it uses the term "tesela" regularly throughout the document, seemingly to refer to dividing up the land into sections for analysis. I can find numerous examples of the term used within this context in Spanish, but I'm really struggling to find the correct equivalent English term. I can see that someone else has asked this question on Proz previously, and the term agreed on was "tessera". However, I have my doubts as I really don't get any reliable hits when I search for this term within the context of conservation. Here are some example sentences that include the term:

Metodología del estado de conservación a nivel de tesela combinando los estados de conservación arbolado y de arbustos.

Indice de estructura poblacional de árboles a nivel de tesela.

El hábitat 6310, Dehesas perennifolias de Quercus spp en Extremadura comprende una superficie total de Superficie teselada de 1.452.228,5 ha y Superficie de hábitat neto de 1.428.918,5 ha (teniendo en cuenta el % de presencia del hábitat en cada tesela).

Any help would be much appreciated!
Mark Harris
France
Local time: 16:28
English translation:tessella
Explanation:
This is not my area of expertise but it seems that it is used in a book called 'The Vegetation of the Iberian Peninsula" and it is defined on page 87.

Tessella This word is used differently in different contexts and has a specific meaning in the context of succession. A tessella is an ecologically homogenous area in which only one type of Potential Natural Vegetation can be distinguished (Bolos, 1963....

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=4Zo3DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA87&lpg...
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Jane Martin
Local time: 15:28
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3 +2plot
Michele Fauble
3 +1tessella
Jane Martin
4grid square
neilmac
3polygon
Steven Huddleston


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tessella


Explanation:
This is not my area of expertise but it seems that it is used in a book called 'The Vegetation of the Iberian Peninsula" and it is defined on page 87.

Tessella This word is used differently in different contexts and has a specific meaning in the context of succession. A tessella is an ecologically homogenous area in which only one type of Potential Natural Vegetation can be distinguished (Bolos, 1963....

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=4Zo3DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA87&lpg...

Jane Martin
Local time: 15:28
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Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
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Many thanks!

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agree  Muriel Vasconcellos: Better to go with the cognate.
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polygon


Explanation:
I think they are making reference to the GIS units for specific properties or segregated parcels of land. Perhaps in that region, they prefer "tesela" to "polígono." (Given that we are clearly not talking about mosaics.)

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Note added at 13 mins (2021-01-11 16:48:17 GMT)
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This unit is commonly used to produce reports "at the polygon level."

From the ARCGIS website:
(https://desktop.arcgis.com/en/arcmap/latest/extensions/3d-an...

A polygon feature is a GIS object that stores its geographic representation—a series of x and y coordinate pairs that enclose an area—as one of its properties (or fields) in the row in the database.

Steven Huddleston
Mexico
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plot


Explanation:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forest_inventory


Michele Fauble
United States
Local time: 08:28
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agree  neilmac: I prefer this option...
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grid square


Explanation:
An option, The map is divided up like a grid, of squares (or plots or polygons… etc.)

One of the links below from a published article refers to butterflies and moths, but the idea is the same.

https://anotherbobsmith.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/smith_01...

http://www.adu.org.za/pdf/Hurford_Jeanne_1993_MSc_CB_thesis....

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Having found the map, I'd say you could just use "area". I haven't scanned the whole thing but "tesela" appears roughly 150 times and it looks like you could replace them all by "area", unless of course, you're using the word elsewhere in the translation.
Basically, I'm bending over backwards to avoid "tessera", which evokes Doctor Who to me…

Example sentence(s):
  • ... extent of each type of habitat in each grid square, in order to calculate an estimated density term for each species in each grid square.
  • Additionally, as the most vulnerable habitat in each grid square is used

    https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1046/j.1365-2664.2000.00526.x
    https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Photo-5-Blanchards-cricket-frogs-Acris-blanchardi-were-found-in-many-of-the-same_fig1_336197225
neilmac
Spain
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