HabitatMech

macroalgal bed

habitatmech:GOLD.0e7a5162bb ·AQUATIC ·UNGROUNDED REVIEWED

A marine bed which is covered by one or more species of attached macroalgae, typically belonging to the Phaeophyceae, Rhodophyta or Ulvophyceae. — 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 > Aquatic > Marine > Seaweed
2 GOLD ecosystem node ids share this path; first shown. See data/raw/gold_ecosystem_paths.tsv.		 69 ORGANISM

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Related terms

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  1. CONFIRM_UNGROUNDED 2026-08-16 · claude-opus-5

    Confirmed UNGROUNDED: no ontology term fits this concept. FOODON:03412266 'seaweed' kept as an xref. Non-habitat screen (#12): grounded EXACT to FOODON:03412266 'seaweed', defined there as 'a macroscopic, multicellular, marine algae (kingdom Protista)' — the organism, not the habitat. The concept under Environmental > Aquatic > Marine is the seaweed as a place microbes live, its surface and the bed it forms. No term for that is in the vendored slice, so the organism term is kept as an xref (#99) and this is a term-request candidate distinct from the host-taxon family: it wants a macroalgal-bed style environment term. (source concept habitatmech:GOLD.0e7a5162bb)

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

    Defined as 'macroalgal bed' under ENVO:01001378 'marine bed'. 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. Labelled for the setting, not the organism: the report is explicit that 'Seaweed' names an organism, which FOODON:03412266 already does, while the concept here is a benthic place. Modelled on the sibling ENVO:01000059 'sea grass bed'. REPLACE because the inherited ENVO:00001999 'marine water body' is not broader - a bed underlies a water body rather than being a kind of one.

Provenance

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