HabitatMech

cave

ENVO:00000067 ·resolve ·TERRESTRIAL ·EXACT REVIEWED

Naturally formed, subterranean open area or chamber. — ENVO

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	Environmental > Terrestrial > Cave 3 GOLD ecosystem node ids share this path; first shown. See data/raw/gold_ecosystem_paths.tsv.	68	ORGANISM
PREGO	cave	6	TAXON

Broader habitats

• terrestrial biome ENVO:00000446
• surface landform ENVO:01001884

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
Amycolatopsis saalfeldensis NCBITaxon:394193	PREGO	1	6
Agromyces italicus DSM 16388 NCBITaxon:1120959	PREGO	2	6
Agromyces subbeticus DSM 16689 NCBITaxon:1120960	PREGO	3	6
Aureimonas altamirensis DSM 21988 NCBITaxon:1121026	PREGO	4	6
Beutenbergia cavernae DSM 12333 NCBITaxon:471853	PREGO	5	6
Hoyosella altamirensis NCBITaxon:616997	PREGO	6	6

Also called

• cavern — ENVO
• cavern — PREGO
• caverns — PREGO
• caves — PREGO
• caveses — PREGO
• grotto — ENVO
• grotto — PREGO
• grottoes — PREGO
• notch — ENVO
• notches — PREGO

Curation

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

1. 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:GOLD.db94b84352)

2. 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.7020391d88)

Provenance

Generated by scripts/seed_from_sources.py from the committed inventories in data/raw/. View the record.