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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

Inheritance

Applicable Classes

Name Description Modifies Slot
Biosample Biological source material which can be characterized by an experiment no
Study A study summarizes the overall goal of a research initiative and outlines the... no

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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.

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Identifier and Mapping Information

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name: ecosystem
description: 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.
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.
from_schema: https://w3id.org/nmdc/nmdc
see_also:
- https://gold.jgi.doe.gov/help
rank: 1000
is_a: gold_path_field
alias: ecosystem
domain_of:
- Biosample
- Study
range: string