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hot spring

ENVO:00000051 ·resolve ·AQUATIC ·EXACT REVIEWED

A spring through which groundwater, heated by geothermal energy, flows. — 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
ENVIRONMENTS_TABLE	water_hotspring Physicochemical parameter bands from kg-microbe's environment table.	—
GOLD	Environmental > Aquatic > Thermal springs 3 GOLD ecosystem node ids share this path; first shown. See data/raw/gold_ecosystem_paths.tsv.	744	ORGANISM
MADIN	hot spring	371	TAXON
PREGO	hot spring	243	TAXON

Broader habitats

• spring ENVO:00000027
• aquatic biome ENVO:00002030

Environmental parameters

Physicochemical parameters

Parameter	Value	Source
GRADIENTS	low	kg-microbe environments.csv (water_hotspring)
ORGANIC_MATTER	low	kg-microbe environments.csv (water_hotspring)
PRESSURE	low	kg-microbe environments.csv (water_hotspring)
SALINITY_VARIABILITY	small	kg-microbe environments.csv (water_hotspring)
STRUCTURAL_COMPLEXITY	low	kg-microbe environments.csv (water_hotspring)
TEMPERATURE	high	kg-microbe environments.csv (water_hotspring)
TEMPERATURE_VARIABILITY	high	kg-microbe environments.csv (water_hotspring)
WATER_AVAILABILITY	high	kg-microbe environments.csv (water_hotspring)
WATER_VARIABILITY	permanently wet	kg-microbe environments.csv (water_hotspring)

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
Thermoflexibacter ruber NCBITaxon:1003	PREGO	1	243	MADIN
Caldisphaera lagunensis DSM 15908 NCBITaxon:1056495	PREGO	21	243	MADIN
Anaerobranca californiensis DSM 14826 NCBITaxon:1120989	PREGO	24	243	MADIN
Caldanaerobius fijiensis DSM 17918 NCBITaxon:1121256	PREGO	25	243	MADIN
hydrotalea_sandarakina NCBITaxon:1004304	MADIN	—	371	PREGO
Caldicellulosiruptor acetigenus DSM 7040 NCBITaxon:1121259	MADIN	—	371	PREGO
Carboxydocella sporoproducens DSM 16521 NCBITaxon:1121270	MADIN	—	371	PREGO
Deinococcus murrayi DSM 11303 NCBITaxon:1121383	MADIN	—	371	PREGO
Desulfomicrobium thermophilum DSM 16697 NCBITaxon:1121412	MADIN	—	371	PREGO
Desulfotomaculum hydrothermale Lam5 NCBITaxon:1121428	MADIN	—	371	PREGO
Elioraea tepidiphila DSM 17972 NCBITaxon:1121861	MADIN	—	371	PREGO
Ferrithrix thermotolerans DSM 19514 NCBITaxon:1121881	MADIN	—	371	PREGO
Eisenibacter elegans DSM 3317 NCBITaxon:1121902	MADIN	—	371	PREGO
Hugenholtzia roseola DSM 9546 NCBITaxon:1121903	MADIN	—	371	PREGO
Meiothermus cerbereus DSM 11376 NCBITaxon:1122221	MADIN	—	371	PREGO
Meiothermus taiwanensis DSM 14542 NCBITaxon:1122222	MADIN	—	371	PREGO
Porphyrobacter cryptus DSM 12079 NCBITaxon:1122970	MADIN	—	371	PREGO
Pseudoxanthomonas taiwanensis DSM 22914 NCBITaxon:1123031	MADIN	—	371	PREGO
Rubritepida flocculans DSM 14296 NCBITaxon:1123072	MADIN	—	371	PREGO
Silanimonas lenta DSM 16282 NCBITaxon:1123253	MADIN	—	371	PREGO
Thermithiobacillus tepidarius DSM 3134 NCBITaxon:1123368	MADIN	—	371	PREGO
Thermoanaerobacter uzonensis DSM 18761 NCBITaxon:1123369	MADIN	—	371	PREGO
Thermodesulfobacterium hveragerdense DSM 12571 NCBITaxon:1123372	MADIN	—	371	PREGO
Thermodesulfovibrio hydrogeniphilus DSM 18151 NCBITaxon:1123374	MADIN	—	371	PREGO
Thermodesulfovibrio islandicus DSM 12570 NCBITaxon:1123375	MADIN	—	371	PREGO

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Also called

• Thermal springs — GOLD
• hot springs — PREGO
• hotspring — ENVO
• spring — ENVO
• thermal feature — PREGO
• thermal features — PREGO
• thermal spring — ENVO
• thermal spring — PREGO
• thermal springs — 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:00000051 'hot spring' (EXACT). GOLD's Aquatic > Thermal springs. ENVO:00000051 hot spring is the exact concept. (source concept habitatmech:GOLD.f0e9ce4655)

2. REVIEW 2026-08-15 · claude-opus-5

   Reviewed and endorsed the seeder's own resolution. Co-attestor review (#12): this source names the ontology CURIE itself, so its grounding is definitional rather than a lexical guess — the record IS the term the source pointed at. Recorded so the record it co-attests can reach REVIEWED, which needs every source concept decided. (source concept habitatmech:MADIN.6b7cf1e5bd)

3. REVIEW 2026-08-15 · claude-opus-5

   Reviewed and endorsed the seeder's own resolution. Co-attestor review (#12): this source names the ontology CURIE itself, so its grounding is definitional rather than a lexical guess — the record IS the term the source pointed at. Recorded so the record it co-attests can reach REVIEWED, which needs every source concept decided. (source concept habitatmech:PREGO.8ba649bff9)

Provenance

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