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sea water

ENVO:00002149 ·resolve ·AQUATIC ·EXACT SEEDED

Water which has physicochemical properties that have been determined by the processes occuring in a sea or ocean. — ENVO

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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
ENVIRONMENTS_TABLE water_marine
Physicochemical parameter bands from kg-microbe's environment table.		 —
MADIN sea water 1211 TAXON
PREGO sea water 1887 TAXON

Broader habitats

Environmental parameters

Physicochemical parameters
ParameterValueSource
GRADIENTSlowkg-microbe environments.csv (water_marine)
PHhighkg-microbe environments.csv (water_marine)
SALINITYhighkg-microbe environments.csv (water_marine)
SALINITY_VARIABILITYsmallkg-microbe environments.csv (water_marine)
STRUCTURAL_COMPLEXITYlowkg-microbe environments.csv (water_marine)
WATER_AVAILABILITYhighkg-microbe environments.csv (water_marine)
WATER_VARIABILITYpermanently wetkg-microbe environments.csv (water_marine)

Causal graphs

Seawater DOM oligotrophic uptake

Dissolved organic matter in seawater creates dilute carbon pools that select for oligotrophic bacteria with streamlined genomes and efficient nutrient transport systems.

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Seawater DOM oligotrophic uptake 8 nodes and 7 directed relationships. Labels and evidence are also available in the adjacent table. sea water — contains → dissolved organic matter; Evidence: PMID:26951682 contains dissolved organic matter — is cycled by → ocean microbiome DOM cycling; Evidence: PMID:26951682 is cycled by low organic-carbon availability — selects for → oligotrophic marine bacteria; Evidence: PMID:19805210 selects for nutrient transport systems — controls → dilute nutrient uptake; Evidence: PMID:34010286 controls oligotrophic marine bacteria — uses → nutrient transport systems; Evidence: PMID:34010286 uses dilute nutrient uptake — enables → ocean microbiome DOM cycling; Evidence: PMID:34010286 enables oligotrophic marine bacteria — has adaptation → streamlined genomes; Evidence: PMID:16109880 has adaptation sea water (HABITAT); sea_water; ENVO:00002149 HABITAT sea water dissolved organic matter (CHEMICAL); dissolved_organic_matter CHEMICAL dissolved organic matter low organic-carbon availability (ENVIRONMENTAL_PARAMETER); low_organic_carbon_availability ENVIRONMENTAL_PARAMETER low organic-carbon availability oligotrophic marine bacteria (TAXON); oligotrophic_marine_bacteria TAXON oligotrophic marine bacteria nutrient transport systems (GENE_OR_PROTEIN); nutrient_transport_systems GENE_OR_PROTEIN nutrient transport systems dilute nutrient uptake (BIOLOGICAL_PROCESS); dilute_nutrient_uptake BIOLOGICAL_PROCESS dilute nutrient uptake streamlined genomes (STATE); streamlined_genomes STATE streamlined genomes ocean microbiome DOM cycling (COMMUNITY_PROCESS); ocean_microbiome_dom_cycling COMMUNITY_PROCESS ocean microbiome DOM cycling
seawater_dom_oligotrophic_uptake edges
EdgeSubjectPredicateObjectEvidence
seawater_contains_dom sea water contains
The seawater carbon pool contains dissolved organic matter used by marine microbes.		 dissolved organic matter PMID:26951682
Moran and colleagues describe ocean dissolved organic matter as a large reduced-carbon reservoir.
dom_couples_to_ocean_microbiome dissolved organic matter is cycled by
Ocean dissolved organic molecules are produced and consumed by members of the marine microbiome.		 ocean microbiome DOM cycling PMID:26951682
Moran and colleagues frame ocean DOM cycling as molecular relationships between DOM compounds and the microbes that produce and consume them.
carbon_poverty_selects_oligotrophs low organic-carbon availability selects for
Low seawater carbon concentrations select for oligotrophic bacterial growth strategies.		 oligotrophic marine bacteria PMID:19805210
Lauro and colleagues compare marine bacteria adapted to low- and high-nutrient trophic habitats.
nutrient_transporters_control_oligotrophy nutrient transport systems controls
Nutrient transporter architecture controls uptake of dilute substrates by oligotrophic bacteria.		 dilute nutrient uptake PMID:34010286
Norris and colleagues model copiotroph-oligotroph differences as a consequence of nutrient-transporter trade-offs.
abc_transporters_support_oligotrophs oligotrophic marine bacteria uses
Prototypical marine oligotrophs rely on ATP-binding cassette transporters for nutrient uptake.		 nutrient transport systems PMID:34010286
Norris and colleagues contrast SAR11-like oligotrophs with copiotrophs that encode phosphotransferase systems.
dilute_uptake_enables_dom_cycling dilute nutrient uptake enables
Uptake of dilute organic substrates enables heterotrophic bacteria to participate in ocean DOM cycling.		 ocean microbiome DOM cycling PMID:34010286
Norris and colleagues connect nutrient-uptake strategy to marine heterotroph metabolism.
oligotrophy_is_linked_to_genome_streamlining oligotrophic marine bacteria has adaptation
Highly abundant oligotrophic seawater bacteria show genome streamlining.		 streamlined genomes PMID:16109880
Giovannoni and colleagues described genome streamlining in the cosmopolitan seawater bacterium SAR11.

Associated taxa

Taxa reported from this habitat, which is weaker than being characteristic of it. rank is out of pool: a high rank in a pool of thousands of near-tied scores is a weak claim. Entries corroborated by a second, independent source are listed first.

Taxa reported from this habitat
TaxonSourceRankPoolCorroborated
Nitrosococcus oceani NCBITaxon:1229 PREGO 17 1887 MADIN
Zobellia uliginosa NCBITaxon:143224 PREGO 23 1887 MADIN
Fangia hongkongensis DSM 21703 NCBITaxon:1089439 MADIN — 1211 PREGO
Simiduia agarivorans SA1 = DSM 21679 NCBITaxon:1117647 MADIN — 1211 PREGO
Aequorivita capsosiphonis DSM 23843 NCBITaxon:1120951 MADIN — 1211 PREGO
Algicola sagamiensis DSM 14643 NCBITaxon:1120963 MADIN — 1211 PREGO
Algoriphagus marincola DSM 16067 NCBITaxon:1120966 MADIN — 1211 PREGO
Aliagarivorans marinus DSM 23064 NCBITaxon:1120969 MADIN — 1211 PREGO
Aliagarivorans taiwanensis DSM 22990 NCBITaxon:1120970 MADIN — 1211 PREGO
Aquimarina muelleri DSM 19832 NCBITaxon:1121007 MADIN — 1211 PREGO
Enterovibrio calviensis DSM 14347 NCBITaxon:1121867 MADIN — 1211 PREGO
Eudoraea adriatica DSM 19308 NCBITaxon:1121875 MADIN — 1211 PREGO
Gelidibacter mesophilus DSM 14095 NCBITaxon:1121912 MADIN — 1211 PREGO
Gilvimarinus chinensis DSM 19667 NCBITaxon:1121921 MADIN — 1211 PREGO
Glaciecola pallidula DSM 14239 NCBITaxon:1121922 MADIN — 1211 PREGO
Haliea salexigens DSM 19537 NCBITaxon:1121937 MADIN — 1211 PREGO
Henriciella marina DSM 19595 NCBITaxon:1121949 MADIN — 1211 PREGO
Leeuwenhoekiella marinoflava DSM 3653 NCBITaxon:1122159 MADIN — 1211 PREGO
Marinobacter daepoensis DSM 16072 NCBITaxon:1122197 MADIN — 1211 PREGO
Marinobacterium jannaschii DSM 6295 NCBITaxon:1122200 MADIN — 1211 PREGO
Marinobacterium litorale DSM 23545 NCBITaxon:1122201 MADIN — 1211 PREGO
Marinomonas polaris DSM 16579 NCBITaxon:1122206 MADIN — 1211 PREGO
Spongiibacter marinus DSM 19753 NCBITaxon:1122224 MADIN — 1211 PREGO
Mesoflavibacter zeaxanthinifaciens DSM 18436 NCBITaxon:1122225 MADIN — 1211 PREGO
Mesonia mobilis DSM 19841 NCBITaxon:1122226 MADIN — 1211 PREGO

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  1. ADD_CAUSAL_GRAPH 2026-09-04 · codex

    Added a seawater dissolved-organic-matter and oligotrophic-uptake graph backed by PMID:26951682, PMID:19805210, PMID:34010286, and PMID:16109880.

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