artificial water channel system
A vivarium which consists of one or more artificial channels through which water is pumped or recirculated over a colonisable substratum.
Source attestations
| Source | Label / path | Assertions | Unit |
|---|---|---|---|
| GOLD | Engineered > Artificial ecosystem > Water channel system | — |
Broader habitats
- vivarium
ENVO:00010622 - Artificial ecosystem
habitatmech:GOLD.0acae9a1a4
Also called
- Water channel system
Curation
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CONFIRM_UNGROUNDED
Confirmed UNGROUNDED: no ontology term fits this concept. Item-level review from the committed Indoor deep-research report: GOLD's Engineered > Artificial ecosystem > Water channel system source denotes artificial stream-channel vivaria, not built-environment canals, plumbing, bioreactors, or lab-enrichment cultures; its children are Indoor, Outdoor, and Indoor > Biofilm. No ENVO term names a laboratory or outdoor recirculating water-channel system. ENVO:00010622 'vivarium' is broader, ENVO:00000121 'artificial channel' and ENVO:00000079 'flume' overclaim civil-engineering landform or canal semantics, and ENVO:01000620 'mesocosm' is defined as embedded within a natural environment. Term request. (source concept habitatmech:GOLD.87bf5e5370)
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DEFINED
Defined as 'artificial water channel system' under ENVO:00010622 'vivarium'. Definition authored from the committed Indoor deep-research report under research/habitats/, read in full; no new paid research was commissioned. GOLD's Engineered > Artificial ecosystem > Water channel system source is interpreted as a deliberately constructed experimental stream-channel facility rather than a civil-engineering canal or flume, building plumbing, a bioreactor, or a lab-enrichment culture. ENVO:00010622 'vivarium' is the tightest vendored genus because water-channel systems are bounded experimental enclosures with controlled conditions; ENVO:00000121 'artificial channel' and ENVO:00000079 'flume' overclaim landform or canal semantics, and ENVO:01000620 'mesocosm' is defined as embedded within a natural environment, which would exclude the Indoor child. The requested label expands GOLD's bare source label for ontology clarity, and no exact synonyms were authored because the report did not verify Water channel system or short artificial-stream phrases as exact names in use.