Use of ENVO:habitat as a superclass for MICRO:'subaerial prokaryote habitat'

[pbuttigieg]

ENVO differentiates habitats from environments in that the former are environmental systems that can support the life of and allow the growth of a population of some (usually species-level or OTU-level) taxon. For this to work here, one would have to assert that 'subaerial prokaryotes' have such a quality. I'm not sure that's wise, as many of them would just happen to be there in the long tail of the abundance distributions.

Also, the exact synonyms seem a little strange in that they sound more like qualities or dispositions: