microbe-associated environment

habitatmech:GOLD.184623c963 ·HOST_ASSOCIATED ·UNGROUNDED REVIEWED

An environmental system determined by a microorganism. — 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
Source	Label / path	Assertions	Unit
GOLD	Host-associated > Microbial 4 GOLD ecosystem node ids share this path; first shown. See data/raw/gold_ecosystem_paths.tsv.	465	ORGANISM

Broader habitats

environmental system determined by an organism ENVO:01001000

Also called

Microbial — HabitatMech curation

Curation

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

CONFIRM_UNGROUNDED 2026-08-12 · claude-opus-5
Confirmed UNGROUNDED: no ontology term fits this concept. GOLD's Host-associated > Microbial: a microorganism as host. Same gap as the Bacteria child; ENVO has no microbial-host environment term. (source concept habitatmech:GOLD.184623c963)
DEFINED 2026-08-16 · claude-opus-5
Defined as 'microbe-associated environment' under ENVO:01001000 'environmental system determined by an organism'. The habitat is the host clade, and it is the entire content of the concept: GOLD organises host-associated isolates by host and every anatomical path hangs off it. Not grounded to the parent, because every clade would then merge onto one record. Same pattern ENVO already has at plant-, animal- and fungi-associated environment. A microorganism as host for another microbe. ENVO's organism-determined branch has plant, animal and fungi children but nothing for a microbial host, which is the commonest host of all in this corpus's sources.

Provenance

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