Microbial mats

habitatmech:GOLD.2a0de7e155 ·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 > Non-marine Saline and Alkaline > Soda lake > Microbial mats	7	ORGANISM

Broader habitats

saline lake ENVO:00000019
Soda lake habitatmech:GOLD.b11bdfbd7c

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 2026-08-13 · claude-opus-5
ENVO:00000019 'saline lake' attached as a parent, not adopted as the identity (NARROW). A soda lake is a specific alkaline saline lake; merging it into saline lake loses the distinction and ENVO has no soda-lake term. Path: Environmental > Aquatic > Non-marine Saline and Alkaline > Soda lake > Microbi (source concept habitatmech:GOLD.2a0de7e155)

Provenance

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