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
Machine-generated and unreviewed. Its grounding comes
from the seeder's rules, not from a curator.
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
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.