hypolimnion

ENVO:00002130 ·resolve ·AQUATIC ·EXACT REVIEWED

The dense, bottom layer of water in a thermally-stratified lake. It is the layer that lies below the thermocline. — 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 > Aquatic > Freshwater > Lake > Hypolimnion/Profundal zone	10	ORGANISM
PREGO	hypolimnion	2	TAXON

Broader habitats

freshwater lake ENVO:00000021
lake layer ENVO:01000283

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
Elusimicrobiota `NCBITaxon:74152`	PREGO	1	2
Methanococcoides burtonii DSM 6242 `NCBITaxon:259564`	PREGO	2	2

Also called

Hypolimnion/Profundal zone — GOLD
hypolimnional — PREGO
hypolimnions — PREGO

Curation

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

GROUND 2026-08-12 · claude-opus-5
Grounded to ENVO:00002130 'hypolimnion' (EXACT). Slash alternative; hypolimnion is the head term. Path: Environmental > Aquatic > Freshwater > Lake > Hypolimnion/Profundal zo (source concept habitatmech:GOLD.2d82ee602e)
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.419f8bb9fa)

Provenance

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