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Term: trophic level (trophic_level)

Trophic levels are the feeding position in a food chain. Microbes can be a range of producers (e.g. chemolithotroph)

URI: MIXS:0000032

Applicable Checklists and Extensions

NOTE: does not include Combinations (of checklists and extensions) that use trophic_level.

Name Description Checklist/Extension
MimarksC Minimal Information about a Marker Sequence: specimen Checklist
MigsEu Minimal Information about a Genome Sequence: eukaryote Checklist
MigsBa Minimal Information about a Genome Sequence: cultured bacteria/archaea Checklist
Agriculture A collection of terms appropriate when sequencing samples obtained in an agri... Extension

Properties

Examples

Value
heterotroph

LinkML Source

name: trophic_level
description: Trophic levels are the feeding position in a food chain. Microbes can
  be a range of producers (e.g. chemolithotroph)
title: trophic level
examples:
- value: heterotroph
in_subset:
- nucleic acid sequence source
from_schema: https://w3id.org/mixs
keywords:
- level
slot_uri: MIXS:0000032
alias: trophic_level
domain_of:
- MigsBa
- MigsEu
- MimarksC
- Agriculture
range: TrophicLevelEnum