human-associated environment

habitatmech:GOLD.cd0b0940e5 ·HOST_ASSOCIATED ·UNGROUNDED REVIEWED

An environmental system determined by a human. — HabitatMech

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.

Broader habitats

• environmental system determined by an organism ENVO:01001000
• animal-associated environment ENVO:01001002

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.

Also called

• Human — BacDive
• Mammals: Human — HabitatMech curation
• human host — HabitatMech curation

Curation

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

1. CONFIRM_UNGROUNDED 2026-08-12 · claude-opus-5

   Confirmed UNGROUNDED: no ontology term fits this concept. Nearest broader term ENVO:01001002 'animal-associated environment' attached as a parent. Humans as host, the single largest ungrounded concept at 40432 GOLD organisms. No human-associated environment term exists in ENVO. Deliberately not grounded to animal-associated environment: every host clade would then merge onto one record and the host distinction is the entire content. Highest-value ENVO term request. (source concept habitatmech:GOLD.cd0b0940e5)

2. DEFINED 2026-08-16 · claude-opus-5

   Defined as 'human-associated environment' under ENVO:01001002 'animal-associated environment'. The habitat is the host clade, and it is the entire content of the concept: GOLD and BacDive both organise host-associated isolates by host, and every downstream anatomical path hangs off it. HabitatMech deliberately does not ground these to animal-associated environment, because every clade would then merge onto one record and the distinction the sources are making would be lost. ENVO already has this shape at plant-, animal- and fungi-associated environment; this asks for the same pattern one level down. This is the single largest ungrounded concept in the corpus.

3. SAME_AS 2026-08-17 · claude-opus-5

   Merged into habitatmech:GOLD.cd0b0940e5 'Mammals: Human': the same concept under another source's name. Novel-concept merge (#116): BacDive's 'Human' and GOLD's 'Mammals: Human' are the same habitat — a human acting as host — and both are novel, so neither has an ontology term to merge on. Before SAME_AS they were two permanent records holding 40,432 and 11,697 assertions for one concept, published as two pages, and the largest habitat in the corpus appeared nowhere as such. Merged onto the GOLD identifier because it carries the larger attestation and the deeper path; the choice of which id survives is arbitrary between two minted ids and is recorded here rather than left to ordering. Both keep their attestations on the merged record, so no evidence is lost. (source concept habitatmech:BACDIVE.c9b246fcbb)

Provenance

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