HabitatMech

peat moss-associated environment

habitatmech:GOLD.7f57b82cab ·HOST_ASSOCIATED ·UNGROUNDED REVIEWED

A plant-associated environment which is determined by a living Sphagnum gametophore, and which comprises the surfaces of its stem and phyllids together with the water-filled lumina of its hyaline cells and the capillary spaces between them. — HabitatMech

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
SourceLabel / pathAssertionsUnit
GOLD Host-associated > Plants > Peat moss
3 GOLD ecosystem node ids share this path; first shown. See data/raw/gold_ecosystem_paths.tsv.		 11 ORGANISM

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  1. CONFIRM_UNGROUNDED 2026-09-06 · codex-gpt-5

    Confirmed UNGROUNDED: no ontology term fits this concept. mesh:D044003 'Sphagnopsida' kept as an xref. Report confirms GOLD Peat moss as a living Sphagnum gametophore host habitat. mesh:D044003 remains xref because Sphagnopsida is a taxon; ENVO:01001001 already provides the true plant-associated parent. ENVO sphagnum bog, peat soil, peatland and area of moss-dominated vegetation are ecosystem, decomposed-substrate or landcover false matches. ENVO:01001057 is a near miss because it includes dead plant matter and sits outside the host-associated branch. Path: Host-associated > Plants > Peat moss. (source concept habitatmech:GOLD.7f57b82cab)

  2. DEFINED 2026-09-06 · codex-gpt-5

    Defined as 'peat moss-associated environment' under ENVO:01001001 'plant-associated environment'. Definition authored from the record's committed deep-research report under research/habitats/, read in full; no new paid research was commissioned. The report recommends minting because GOLD's Host-associated > Plants > Peat moss source denotes living Sphagnum gametophores and their surface, hyaline-cell and capillary-water microhabitats, while ENVO's sphagnum bog, peat soil, peatland and moss-dominated vegetation classes denote the surrounding ecosystem, dead peat, or a landcover class. ENVO:01001001 'plant-associated environment' is the tightest vendored genus; ENVO:01001057 'environment associated with a plant part or small plant' is a near miss because it includes dead plant matter and sits outside the host-associated branch. mesh:D044003 'Sphagnopsida' remains an xref because it is a taxon rather than a habitat.

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