Slot: ecosystem_category
Ecosystem categories represent divisions within the ecosystem based on specific characteristics of the environment from where an organism or sample is isolated. Ecosystem category is in position 2/5 in a GOLD path.
Domain and Range
None → 0..1 String
Parents
is_a: gold_path_field
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Comments: | The Environmental ecosystem (for example) is divided into Air, Aquatic and Terrestrial. Ecosystem categories for Host-associated samples can be individual hosts or phyla and for engineered samples it may be manipulated environments like bioreactors, solid waste etc. | |
See also: | https://gold.jgi.doe.gov/help |