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contaminated soil

ENVO:00002116 ·resolve ·TERRESTRIAL ·EXACT REVIEWED

A portion of contaminated soil is a portion of soil with elevated levels of some contaminant. — 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 > Soil > Unclassified > Contaminated	129	ORGANISM
GOLD	Environmental > Terrestrial > Soil > Clay > Contaminated	9	ORGANISM
GOLD	Environmental > Terrestrial > Soil > Loam > Contaminated	2	ORGANISM
GOLD	Environmental > Terrestrial > Soil > Paddy field/soil > Contaminated	—
GOLD	Environmental > Terrestrial > Soil > Contaminated 2 GOLD ecosystem node ids share this path; first shown. See data/raw/gold_ecosystem_paths.tsv.	77	ORGANISM
GOLD	Engineered > Artificial ecosystem > Soil microcosm > Contaminated soil	—
PREGO	contaminated soil	1	TAXON

Broader habitats

• soil ENVO:00001998
• loam ENVO:00002258
• enriched soil ENVO:00003082
• paddy field soil ENVO:00005740
• Soil microcosm habitatmech:GOLD.853ee40b1d
• Clay habitatmech:GOLD.ceceb38473

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
Dyadobacter psychrophilus NCBITaxon:651661	PREGO	1	1

Also called

• Contaminated — GOLD
• contaminated soils — 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. GROUND 2026-08-12 · claude-opus-5

   Grounded to ENVO:00002116 'contaminated soil' (EXACT). GOLD qualifies the parent Soil node; the composed label is exactly this ENVO term. Path: Environmental > Terrestrial > Soil > Unclassified > Contaminated (source concept habitatmech:GOLD.494f9ec268)

2. GROUND 2026-08-12 · claude-opus-5

   Grounded to ENVO:00002116 'contaminated soil' (EXACT). GOLD qualifies the parent Soil node; the composed label is exactly this ENVO term. Path: Environmental > Terrestrial > Soil > Loam > Contaminated (source concept habitatmech:GOLD.6df8395f3e)

3. GROUND 2026-08-12 · claude-opus-5

   Grounded to ENVO:00002116 'contaminated soil' (EXACT). GOLD qualifies the parent Soil node; the composed label is exactly this ENVO term. Path: Environmental > Terrestrial > Soil > Clay > Contaminated (source concept habitatmech:GOLD.7f389946d7)

4. GROUND 2026-08-12 · claude-opus-5

   Grounded to ENVO:00002116 'contaminated soil' (EXACT). GOLD qualifies the parent Soil node; the composed label is exactly this ENVO term. Path: Environmental > Terrestrial > Soil > Paddy field/soil > Contaminated (source concept habitatmech:GOLD.8dbd5ff857)

5. GROUND 2026-08-12 · claude-opus-5

   Grounded to ENVO:00002116 'contaminated soil' (EXACT). GOLD qualifies the parent Soil node; the composed label is exactly this ENVO term. Path: Environmental > Terrestrial > Soil > Contaminated (source concept habitatmech:GOLD.8eb155993f)

6. 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.7352fc4b9b)

7. 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.8f5b10fc9c)

Provenance

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