Algae

habitatmech:GOLD.5b8e5eddd2 ·ENGINEERED ·NARROW REVIEWED

Source attestations

Each upstream vocabulary's own account of this habitat. Assertion counts are per-source units and are not comparable across sources — GOLD counts organisms, BacDive strains, PREGO taxa.

What each upstream vocabulary says about this habitat
Source	Label / path	Assertions	Unit
GOLD	Engineered > Lab culture > Culture media > Algae 2 GOLD ecosystem node ids share this path; first shown. See data/raw/gold_ecosystem_paths.tsv.	—

Broader habitats

culture medium BTO:0000316

Curation

What a curator decided about this record, and why. A record built from several source concepts can carry one decision per concept.

GROUND_AS_PARENT 2026-08-16 · claude-opus-5
BTO:0000316 'culture medium' attached as a parent, not adopted as the identity (NARROW). Non-habitat screen (#12): the last record inheriting FOODON:03411301 'algae' as a parent. It reached it through the ambiguous-leaf rule — a second GOLD path ending in 'Algae' keeps a minted id with the matched term as a parent — and survived ungrounding the host-associated Algae node. An algal culture medium is not a KIND of algae, which is what parent_habitats asserts, so the organism term goes and BTO:0000316 'culture medium' takes its place: the path is Engineered > Lab culture > Culture media > Algae, and a medium for growing algae is a culture medium. (source concept habitatmech:GOLD.5b8e5eddd2)

Provenance

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