Microbial mats

habitatmech:GOLD.a00c47c576 ·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 > Salt crystallizer ponds > Microbial mats	1	ORGANISM

Broader habitats

hypersaline water ENVO:00002012
Salt crystallizer ponds habitatmech:GOLD.277843111f

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:00002012 'hypersaline water' attached as a parent, not adopted as the identity (NARROW). A salt crystallizer pond is a specific hypersaline evaporation pond, narrower than saline water generally. Path: Environmental > Aquatic > Non-marine Saline and Alkaline > Salt crystallizer p (source concept habitatmech:GOLD.a00c47c576)

Provenance

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