HabitatMech

indoor dust

habitatmech:GOLD.398aeb6c37 ·ENGINEERED ·UNGROUNDED REVIEWED

A dust which settles and accumulates on interior surfaces of a built structure, and which is a heterogeneous mixture of particles shed by occupants, pets and furnishings, tracked-in soil, and deposited outdoor-derived particulate matter. — 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.

What each upstream vocabulary says about this habitat
SourceLabel / pathAssertionsUnit
GOLD Environmental > Air > Indoor Air > Dust
2 GOLD ecosystem node ids share this path; first shown. See data/raw/gold_ecosystem_paths.tsv.		 65 ORGANISM

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Curation

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  1. CONFIRM_UNGROUNDED 2026-08-13 · claude-opus-5

    Confirmed UNGROUNDED: no ontology term fits this concept. Indoor dust is settled particulate matter in a built environment, not air. GOLD's Air branch is about where the sample came from, not what it is. (source concept habitatmech:GOLD.398aeb6c37)

  2. DEFINED 2026-08-28 · claude-opus-5

    Defined as 'indoor dust' under ENVO:00002008 'dust'. Definition authored from the record's committed deep-research report under research/habitats/, read in full; the report's proposed sentence, genus and near-miss table are the evidence. No new research was commissioned. Introduces a setting-based differentia under ENVO:00002008 'dust', where every existing child is differentiated by composition or source material. REPLACE because the inherited parent was the GOLD path parent habitatmech:GOLD.40979f5751 'Indoor Air', and dust is not a kind of air.

Provenance

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