metalimnion

ENVO:00002132 ·resolve ·AQUATIC ·EXACT REVIEWED

A cline which is part of a lake and across which temperature changes rapidly with depth. — 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 > Metalimnion/Thermocline	—

Broader habitats

freshwater lake ENVO:00000021
thermocline ENVO:00002269
astronomical body part ENVO:01000813

Also called

Metalimnion/Thermocline — GOLD

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:00002132 'metalimnion' (EXACT). Slash alternative naming one thing; grounded to the head term. Pulled out of the class-level sweep, whose note wrongly claimed no term matched. Label: 'Metalimnion/Thermocline'. (source concept habitatmech:GOLD.7defa41cfd)

Provenance

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