Subterranean lake

habitatmech:GOLD.937bf682c4 ·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 > Deep subsurface > Subterranean lake 2 GOLD ecosystem node ids share this path; first shown. See data/raw/gold_ecosystem_paths.tsv.	—

Broader habitats

underground lake ENVO:00000058
Deep subsurface habitatmech:GOLD.21222434e2

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 2026-10-06 · codex-gpt-5
Confirmed UNGROUNDED: no ontology term fits this concept. Nearest broader term ENVO:00000058 'underground lake' attached as a parent. ITEM scope assessment (#1563): the deep-subsurface source denotes an underground lake, with an unresolved depth qualifier rather than proven exact coextension with ENVO:00000058. The source path and local-scale annotation support that broader genus. Retain the source identity and independent Deep subsurface parent; use explicit parent placement without introducing the implicit mapping endpoints in #1398. GOLD7667/7668 has 97 bulk biosamples versus 96 API samples from one study; Gs0111485 spans 25 paths, whose observations must not be transferred. Freshwater cohort annotations do not make the whole source class freshwater. No numeric depth cutoff or authored definition is asserted. Path: Environmental > Aquatic > Deep subsurface > Subterranean lake (source concept habitatmech:GOLD.937bf682c4)

Provenance

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