biofilm

ENVO:00002034 ·resolve ·AQUATIC ·EXACT SEEDED

A complex aggregation of microorganisms marked by the excretion of a protective and adhesive matrix; usually adhering to a substratum. — 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
ENVIRONMENTS_TABLE	biofilm Physicochemical parameter bands from kg-microbe's environment table.	—
GOLD	Environmental > Aquatic > Marine > Biofouling > Microfouling/Biofilm	—
GOLD	Environmental > Aquatic > Freshwater > Biofouling > Microfouling/Biofilm	—
GOLD	Environmental > Aquatic > Non-marine Saline and Alkaline > Biofouling > Microfouling/Biofilm	—
MADIN	biofilm	39	TAXON
PREGO	biofilm	325	TAXON

Broader habitats

mass of biological material ENVO:01000549
Biofouling habitatmech:GOLD.3ec896865d
Biofouling habitatmech:GOLD.4bd2954af9
Biofouling habitatmech:GOLD.ec116f9a37

Environmental parameters

Physicochemical parameters
Parameter	Value	Source
GRADIENTS	high	kg-microbe environments.csv (biofilm)
NUTRIENTS	high	kg-microbe environments.csv (biofilm)
ORGANIC_MATTER	high	kg-microbe environments.csv (biofilm)
SALINITY_VARIABILITY	small	kg-microbe environments.csv (biofilm)
STRUCTURAL_COMPLEXITY	medium	kg-microbe environments.csv (biofilm)
WATER_AVAILABILITY	high	kg-microbe environments.csv (biofilm)

Associated taxa

Taxa reported from this habitat, which is weaker than being characteristic of it. rank is out of pool: a high rank in a pool of thousands of near-tied scores is a weak claim. Entries corroborated by a second, independent source are listed first.

Taxa reported from this habitat
Taxon	Source	Rank	Pool	Corroborated
chryseobacterium_molle `NCBITaxon:216903`	MADIN	—	39	PREGO
hoyosella_altamirensis `NCBITaxon:616997`	MADIN	—	39	PREGO
Capnocytophaga gingivalis `NCBITaxon:1017`	PREGO	1	325
Capnocytophaga ochracea `NCBITaxon:1018`	PREGO	2	325
Capnocytophaga sputigena `NCBITaxon:1019`	PREGO	3	325
Rhodospirillum rubrum `NCBITaxon:1085`	PREGO	4	325
Leptotrichia trevisanii `NCBITaxon:109328`	PREGO	5	325
Arthrobacter sp. 'SMCC G984' `NCBITaxon:110639`	PREGO	6	325
Hominimerdicola alba `NCBITaxon:1264`	PREGO	7	325
Ruminococcus flavefaciens `NCBITaxon:1265`	PREGO	8	325
Micrococcus luteus `NCBITaxon:1270`	PREGO	9	325
Staphylococcus epidermidis `NCBITaxon:1282`	PREGO	10	325
Carboxydothermus hydrogenoformans `NCBITaxon:129958`	PREGO	11	325
Streptococcus parasanguinis `NCBITaxon:1318`	PREGO	12	325
Bacillus sp. (in: firmicutes) `NCBITaxon:1409`	PREGO	13	325
Limosilactobacillus vaginalis DSM 5837 = ATCC 49540 `NCBITaxon:1423814`	PREGO	14	325
Clostridium `NCBITaxon:1485`	PREGO	15	325
[Clostridium] symbiosum `NCBITaxon:1512`	PREGO	16	325
[Clostridium] aminophilum `NCBITaxon:1526`	PREGO	17	325
Anaerocolumna aminovalerica `NCBITaxon:1527`	PREGO	18	325
Hungatella hathewayi `NCBITaxon:154046`	PREGO	19	325
Clostridium subterminale `NCBITaxon:1550`	PREGO	20	325
Leptotrichia wadei `NCBITaxon:157687`	PREGO	21	325
Megamonas hypermegale `NCBITaxon:158847`	PREGO	22	325
Lactobacillus gasseri `NCBITaxon:1596`	PREGO	23	325

Showing 25 of 50 kept associations.

Also called

Microfouling/Biofilm — GOLD
biofilms — PREGO

Curation

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

GROUND 2026-08-12 · claude-opus-5
Grounded to ENVO:00002034 'biofilm' (EXACT). Slash alternative naming one thing; grounded to the head term. ENVO preferred over BTO for an environmental biofilm. Pulled out of the class-level sweep, whose note wrongly claimed no term matched. Label: 'Microfouling/Biofilm'. (source concept habitatmech:GOLD.00cc26ac8b)
GROUND 2026-08-12 · claude-opus-5
Grounded to ENVO:00002034 'biofilm' (EXACT). Slash alternative naming one thing; grounded to the head term. ENVO preferred over BTO for an environmental biofilm. Pulled out of the class-level sweep, whose note wrongly claimed no term matched. Label: 'Microfouling/Biofilm'. (source concept habitatmech:GOLD.3911678ce4)
GROUND 2026-08-12 · claude-opus-5
Grounded to ENVO:00002034 'biofilm' (EXACT). Slash alternative naming one thing; grounded to the head term. ENVO preferred over BTO for an environmental biofilm. Pulled out of the class-level sweep, whose note wrongly claimed no term matched. Label: 'Microfouling/Biofilm'. (source concept habitatmech:GOLD.f8048a6e2a)
REVIEW 2026-08-13 · claude-opus-5
Reviewed and endorsed the seeder's own resolution. Multi-source review pass: this record is attested by more than one independent vocabulary, and this source's label or path was read against the record's ontology term to check the merge is right. It agrees. Source concepts in the same pass whose labels did not agree were re-decided rather than endorsed; see the pass's other decisions of the same date. (source concept habitatmech:PREGO.94bda4d522)

Provenance

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