A surface layer of a solid environmental material which is formed by the presence and activity of photosynthetic microbial assemblages colonising it. — ENVO
Machine-generated and unreviewed. Its grounding comes
from the seeder's rules, not from a curator.
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
Host-associated > Algae > Biocrust 3 GOLD ecosystem node ids share this path; first shown. See data/raw/gold_ecosystem_paths.tsv.