Slot: ecosystem

An ecosystem is a combination of a physical environment (abiotic factors) and all the organisms (biotic factors) that interact with this environment. Ecosystem is in position 1/5 in a GOLD path.

URI: nmdc:ecosystem

Domain and Range

None → _0..1 String

Parents

• is_a: gold_path_field

Children

Used by

• Biosample

• Study

Other properties

Comments:		The abiotic factors play a profound role on the type and composition of organisms in a given environment. The GOLD Ecosystem at the top of the five-level classification system is aimed at capturing the broader environment from which an organism or environmental sample is collected. The three broad groups under Ecosystem are Environmental, Host-associated, and Engineered. They represent samples collected from a natural environment or from another organism or from engineered environments like bioreactors respectively.
See also:		https://gold.jgi.doe.gov/help