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
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.

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)
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.