Plankton

habitatmech:GOLD.23cd8889db ·AQUATIC ·UNGROUNDED 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 > Freshwater > River > Plankton	2	ORGANISM

Broader habitats

freshwater river ENVO:01000297

Related terms

Terms a source linked to this concept without this record claiming to be one of them, or to be narrower than one. A cross-reference, not a grounding.

Plankton mesh:D010933

Curation

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

CONFIRM_UNGROUNDED 2026-08-16 · claude-opus-5
Confirmed UNGROUNDED: no ontology term fits this concept. Nearest broader term mesh:D010933 'Plankton' attached as a parent. Host-taxon reversal (#114): NOT_APPLICABLE on the reasoning that plankton is 'an assemblage of organisms rather than a place'. Organisms can be habitats — plankton hosts epibiotic and particle-attached microbial communities, which is a well-described habitat distinct from the free-living water column. What is not a place is the TAXON TERM, so mesh:D010933 stays an xref (#99) and the concept keeps its own identity. NOT_APPLICABLE asserted the concept is not a habitat, which is stronger than the evidence and stronger than what was meant. (source concept habitatmech:GOLD.23cd8889db)

Provenance

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