Microbial mats

habitatmech:GOLD.17c67a52e1 ·AQUATIC ·NARROW REVIEWED

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 > Marine > Cold seeps > Microbial mats	3	ORGANISM

Broader habitats

microbial mat ENVO:01000008
cold seep ENVO:01000263

Curation

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

GROUND_AS_PARENT 2026-08-12 · claude-opus-5
ENVO:01000008 'microbial mat' attached as a parent, not adopted as the identity (NARROW). 20 GOLD paths share this leaf but differ in setting, not host, so each is a kind of microbial mat rather than microbial mat itself. Grounding them all to ENVO:01000008 would merge distinct environments; ENVO:01000008 is recorded as a parent instead. Path: Environmental > Aquatic > Marine > Cold seeps > Microbial mats (source concept habitatmech:GOLD.17c67a52e1)

Provenance

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