HabitatMech

insect-associated environment

habitatmech:GOLD.dba2a83b95 ·HOST_ASSOCIATED ·UNGROUNDED REVIEWED

An environmental system determined by an insect. — 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 Host-associated > Arthropoda: Insects
4 GOLD ecosystem node ids share this path; first shown. See data/raw/gold_ecosystem_paths.tsv.		 1833 ORGANISM

Broader habitats

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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. Insects as host. Parented to animal-associated environment; not grounded there because every host clade would merge onto one record. ENVO term request. (source concept habitatmech:GOLD.dba2a83b95)

  2. DEFINED 2026-08-16 · claude-opus-5

    Defined as 'insect-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.

Provenance

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