Estuary: Microbial mat

habitatmech:GOLD.57a5257707 ·AQUATIC ·NARROW REVIEWED

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 > Aquatic > Marine > Intertidal zone > Estuary: Microbial mat	12	ORGANISM

Broader habitats

estuary ENVO:00000045
Intertidal zone habitatmech:GOLD.115edc36f8

Curation

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

GROUND_AS_PARENT 2026-08-12 · claude-opus-5
ENVO:00000045 'estuary' attached as a parent, not adopted as the identity (NARROW). An estuarine microbial mat sits in an estuary; the estuary is its setting. Path: Environmental > Aquatic > Marine > Intertidal zone > Estuary: Microbia (source concept habitatmech:GOLD.57a5257707)

Provenance

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