eutric leptosol
A leptosol which has an effective base saturation of 50% or more in mineral material below 20 cm of the mineral soil surface.
Source attestations
| Source | Label / path | Assertions | Unit |
|---|---|---|---|
| GOLD | Environmental > Terrestrial > Soil > Leptosol > Eutric | — |
Broader habitats
- leptosol
ENVO:00002241
Also called
- Eutric
Curation
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CONFIRM_UNGROUNDED
Confirmed UNGROUNDED: no ontology term fits this concept. Soil-classification review: 'Eutric' is a WRB QUALIFIER (base saturation >=50%), not a reference soil group, so there is no term for it and there should not be — the same reading already recorded for Acidic, Humid, Arid and the climatic zones. The concept the path names is a eutric leptosol, which is a real habitat, and ENVO:00002241 'leptosol' is already attached as its parent. Confirmed rather than grounded. Path: Environmental > Terrestrial > Soil > Leptosol > Eutric (source concept habitatmech:GOLD.bfd28de801)
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DEFINED
Defined as 'eutric leptosol' under ENVO:00002241 'leptosol'. Definition authored from the record's committed deep-research report under research/habitats/, read in full; no new paid research was commissioned. GOLD's Environmental > Terrestrial > Soil > Leptosol > Eutric source is interpreted as a eutric leptosol rather than the bare WRB Eutric qualifier. ENVO:00002241 'leptosol' is the strictly broader parent already inherited from GOLD's Leptosol path; grounding to that unqualified parent would merge this path-qualified source with GOLD's broader Leptosol sibling. The definition distinguishes eutric leptosol from eutrophic water bodies, calcaric, rendzic, or lithic leptosols, calcisol, and other eutric reference soil groups. No exact synonyms were authored because Eutric is context-dependent and base-rich shallow soil phrases are descriptive rather than exact.