design pattern: pollution

[cmungall]

Prompted by SDG-InterfaceOntology/sdgio#19

suggests specifically marine and nutrient pollution. Marine fits naturally here:

• ENVO:02500036 ! environmental pollution [subclass: "ENVO:02500000"]
  • ENVO:02500037 ! air pollution [occurs_in: "ENVO:00002005"] [occurs_in: "air"]
  • ENVO:02500038 ! soil pollution [has_output: "ENVO:00002116"] [has_output: "contaminated soil"] [occurs_in: "ENVO:00001998"] [occurs_in: "soil"]
  • ENVO:02500039 ! water pollution [occurs_in: "ENVO:00002006"] [occurs_in: "water"]
  • ENVO:02500040 ! plastic pollution [has_participant: "ENVO:01000404"] [has_participant: "plastic"]
  • ENVO:02500044 ! urban pollution [has_input: "ENVO:01000249"] [has_input: "urban biome"]

I would be wary of using CHEBI roles here. Note the CHEBI nutrient class is human-specific. nutrient is really a relative role. I think in this context it refers to nitrogen UnionOf phosphorous. We could also model as pollution that has-upstream-effect growth-of-community-of-X, using PCO.

More generally, I would like to encode the design patterns we have for pollution to help enable automatic checking, TG, etc.

Broadly:

• by medium: pollution and occurs_in some ENVIRONMENTAL_MEDIUM
• by material: pollution and has_participant? some MATERIAL
• by effect: pollution and upstream-of some PROCESS
• by cause: pollution and downstream-of some PROCESS