microbial mat

ENVO:01000008 ·resolve ·OTHER ·EXACT SEEDED

A multi-layered sheet of micro-organisms, mainly bacteria and archaea. Microbial mats grow at interfaces between different types of material, mostly on submerged or moist surfaces but a few survive in deserts. — ENVO

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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
PREGO	microbial mat	3	TAXON

Broader habitats

mass of biological material ENVO:01000549

Associated taxa

Taxa reported from this habitat, which is weaker than being characteristic of it. rank is out of pool: a high rank in a pool of thousands of near-tied scores is a weak claim. Entries corroborated by a second, independent source are listed first.

Taxa reported from this habitat
Taxon	Source	Rank	Pool
Desulfohalovibrio reitneri `NCBITaxon:1307759`	PREGO	1	3
Candidatus Chlorotrichoides halophilum `NCBITaxon:257501`	PREGO	2	3
Methanohalobium evestigatum Z-7303 `NCBITaxon:644295`	PREGO	3	3

Also called

microbial matic — PREGO
microbial mats — PREGO

Provenance

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