Metadata field: environment_material

Studies:

Scope: all

Required.

Type: string

Example values:

  feces [ENVO:00002003]
  saliva [ENVO:02000036]
  dorsum of tongue [UBERON:0009471]
  supragingival dental plaque [UBERON:0016485]
  soil [ENVO:00001998]
  sand [ENVO:01000017]
  water [ENVO:00002006]
  sea water [ENVO:00002149]
  meltwater [ENVO:01000722]
  rainwater [ENVO:01000600]
  pond water [ENVO:00002228]

Description: EnvO (or UBERON in case the term is not present in EnvO) term describing sample material.

ENA description: The environmental material level refers to the material that was displaced by the sample, or material in which a sample was embedded, prior to the sampling event. Environmental material terms are generally mass nouns. Examples include: air, soil, or water.

Value Count
sea water [ENVO:00002149] 4175
marine water body [ENVO:00001999] 971
coastal sea water [ENVO:00002150] 107
surface water [ENVO:00002042] 87
brackish water [ENVO:00002019] 67
sea ice [ENVO:00002200] 60
ballast water [ENVO:01000872] 48
deep marine sediment [ENVO:00002113] 37
mesotrophic water [ENVO:00002225] 18
marine sediment [ENVO:03000033] 15
sediment [ENVO:00002007] 6
marine snow [ENVO:01000158] 4
fresh water [ENVO:00002011] 3
melt pond [ENVO:03000040] 2