Microbialites

habitatmech:GOLD.f46eba7b40 ·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 > Hypersaline lake > Microbialites	—

Broader habitats

hypersaline lake ENVO:01001020
microbialite ENVO:03600064

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:03600064 'microbialite' attached as a parent, not adopted as the identity (NARROW). 5 GOLD paths share this leaf but differ in setting, not host, so each is a kind of microbialite rather than microbialite itself. Grounding them all to ENVO:03600064 would merge distinct environments; ENVO:03600064 is recorded as a parent instead. Path: Environmental > Aquatic > Non-marine Saline and Alkaline > Hypersaline lake > Mi (source concept habitatmech:GOLD.f46eba7b40)

Provenance

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