EcoService Models Library (ESML)

Compare EMs

EM Variables by Variable Role

One quick way to compare ecological models (EMs) is by comparing their variables. Predictor variables show what kinds of influences a model is able to account for, and what kinds of data it requires. Response variables show what information a model is capable of estimating.

This first comparison shows the names (and units) of each EM’s variables, side-by-side, sorted by variable role. Variable roles in ESML are as follows:

Predictor Variables
- Time- or Space-Varying Variables
- Constants and Parameters
Intermediate (Computed) Variables
Response Variables
- Computed Response Variables
- Measured Response Variables

EM Variables by Category

A second way to use variables to compare EMs is by focusing on the kind of information each variable represents. The top-level categories in the ESML Variable Classification Hierarchy are as follows:

Policy Regarding Use or Management of Ecosystem Resources
Land Surface (or Water Body Bed) Cover, Use or Substrate
Human Demographic Data
Human-Produced Stressor or Enhancer of Ecosystem Goods and Services Production
Ecosystem Attributes and Potential Supply of Ecosystem Goods and Services
Non-monetary Indicators of Human Demand, Use or Benefit of Ecosystem Goods and Services
Monetary Values

Besides understanding model similarities, sorting the variables for each EM by these 7 categories makes it easier to see if the compared models can be linked using similar variables. For example, if one model estimates an ecosystem attribute (in Category 5), such as water clarity, as a response variable, and a second model uses a similar attribute (also in Category 5) as a predictor of recreational use, the two models can potentially be used in tandem. This comparison makes it easier to spot potential model linkages.

All EM Descriptors

This selection allows a more detailed comparison of EMs by model characteristics other than their variables. The 50-or-so EM descriptors for each model are presented, side-by-side, in the following categories:

EM Identity and Description
EM Modeling Approach
EM Locations, Environments, Ecology
EM Ecosystem Goods and Services (EGS) potentially modeled, by classification system

EM Descriptors by Modeling Concepts

This feature guides the user through the use of the following seven concepts for comparing and selecting EMs:

Conceptual Model
Modeling Objective
Modeling Context
Potential for Model Linkage
Feasibility of Model Use
Model Certainty
Model Structural Information

Though presented separately, these concepts are interdependent, and information presented under one concept may have relevance to other concepts as well.

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EM Identity and Description

EM Identification

EM ID em.detail.idHelp ?	EM-88	EM-99	EM-186	EM-392	EM-397	EM-469	EM-699	EM-706	EM-729	EM-863
EM Short Name em.detail.shortNameHelp ?	Area and hotspots of carbon storage, South Africa	Landscape importance for crops, Europe	FORCLIM v2.9, Western OR, USA	EPA H2O, Tampa Bay Region, FL,USA	Wetland shellfish production, Gulf of Mexico, USA	Yasso07 - SOC, Loess Plateau, China	Fish species richness, St. John, USVI, USA	WESP Method	WESP: Urban Stormwater Treatment, ID, USA	SLAMM, Tampa Bay, FL, USA
EM Full Name em.detail.fullNameHelp ?	Area and hotspots of carbon storage, South Africa	Landscape importance for crop-based production, Europe	FORCLIM (FORests in a changing CLIMate) v2.9, Western OR, USA	EPA H2O, Tampa Bay Region, FL, USA	Wetland shellfish production, Gulf of Mexico, USA	Yasso07 - Land Use Effects on Soil Organic Carbon Stocks in the Loess Plateau, China	Fish species richness, St. John, USVI, USA	Method for the Wetland Ecosystem Services Protocol (WESP)	WESP: Urban Stormwater Treament, ID, USA	SLAMM (sea level affecting marshes model), Tampa Bay, Florida, USA
EM Source or Collection em.detail.emSourceOrCollectionHelp ?	None	EU Biodiversity Action 5	US EPA	US EPA	US EPA ? Comment: Marine and Coastal Fisheries: Dynamics, Management, and Ecosystem Science	None	None	None	None	None
EM Source Document ID	271	228	23 ? Comment: Related document ID 22 is a secondary source providing tree species specific parameters in appendix.	321	324	344	355	390	393 ? Comment: Additional data came from electronic appendix provided by author Chris Murphy.	415 ? Comment: Secondary sources: Documents 412 and 413.
Document Author em.detail.documentAuthorHelp ?	Egoh, B., Reyers, B., Rouget, M., Richardson, D.M., Le Maitre, D.C., and van Jaarsveld, A.S.	Haines-Young, R., Potschin, M. and Kienast, F.	Busing, R. T., Solomon, A. M., McKane, R. B. and Burdick, C. A.	Ranade, P., Soter, G., Russell, M., Harvey, J., and K. Murphy	Stephen J. Jordan, Timothy O'Higgins and John A. Dittmar	Wu, Xing, Akujarvi, A., Lu, N., Liski, J., Liu, G., Want, Y, Holmberg, M., Li, F., Zeng, Y., and B. Fu	Pittman, S.J., Christensen, J.D., Caldow, C., Menza, C., and M.E. Monaco	Adamus, P. R.	Murphy, C. and T. Weekley	Sherwood, E. T. and H. S. Greening
Document Year em.detail.documentYearHelp ?	2008	2012	2007	2015	2012	2015	2007	2016	2012	2014
Document Title em.detail.sourceIdHelp ?	Mapping ecosystem services for planning and management	Indicators of ecosystem service potential at European scales: Mapping marginal changes and trade-offs	Forest dynamics in Oregon landscapes: evaluation and application of an individual-based model	EPA H20 User Manual	Ecosystem Services of Coastal Habitats and Fisheries: Multiscale Ecological and Economic Models in Support of Ecosystem-Based Management	Dynamics of soil organic carbon stock in a typical catchment of the Loess Plateau: comparison of model simulations with measurement	Predictive mapping of fish species richness across shallow-water seascapes in the Caribbean	Manual for the Wetland Ecosystem Services Protocol (WESP) v. 1.3.	Measuring outcomes of wetland restoration, enhancement, and creation in Idaho-- Assessing potential functions, values, and condition in a watershed context.	Potential impacts and management implications of climate change on Tampa Bay estuary critical coastal habitats
Document Status em.detail.statusCategoryHelp ?	Peer reviewed and published	Peer reviewed and published	Peer reviewed and published	Peer reviewed and published	Peer reviewed and published	Peer reviewed and published	Peer reviewed and published	Peer reviewed and published	Peer reviewed and published	Peer reviewed and published
Comments on Status em.detail.commentsOnStatusHelp ?	Published journal manuscript	Published journal manuscript	Published journal manuscript	Published EPA report	Published journal manuscript	Published journal manuscript	Published journal manuscript	Published report	Published report	Published journal manuscript

Software and Access

EM ID em.detail.idHelp ?	EM-88	EM-99	EM-186	EM-392	EM-397	EM-469	EM-699	EM-706	EM-729	EM-863
EM Software Access info Exit em.detail.modelAccessInformationHelp ?	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	http://www.epa.gov/ged/tbes/EPAH2O	Not applicable	http://en.ilmatieteenlaitos.fi/yasso-download-and-support	Not applicable	http://people.oregonstate.edu/~adamusp/WESP/ ? Comment: This is an Excel spreadsheet calculator	Not applicable	http://warrenpinnacle.com/prof/SLAMM/index.html com/prof/SLAMM/index.html
Contact Name em.detail.contactNameHelp ?	Benis Egoh	Marion Potschin	Richard T. Busing	Marc J. Russell, Ph.D.	Stephen J. Jordan	Xing Wu	Simon Pittman	Paul R. Adamus	Chris Murphy	Edward T. Sherwood
Contact Address	Water Resources Unit, Institute for Environment and Sustainability, European Commission - Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy	Centre for Environmental Management, School of Geography, University of Nottingham, NG7 2RD, United Kingdom	U.S. Geological Survey, 200 SW 35th Street, Corvallis, Oregon 97333 USA	USEPA GED, One Sabine Island Dr., Gulf Breeze, FL 32561	U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Gulf Ecology Division, 1 Sabine Island Drive, Gulf Breeze, FL 32561, USA	Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100085, China	1305 East-West Highway, Silver Spring, MD 20910, USA	6028 NW Burgundy Dr. Corvallis, OR 97330	Idaho Dept. Fish and Game, Wildlife Bureau, Habitat Section, Boise, ID	Tampa Bay Estuary Program, 263 13th Avenue South, St. Petersburg, FL 33701, USA
Contact Email	Not reported	marion.potschin@nottingham.ac.uk	rtbusing@aol.com	russell.marc@epa.gov	jordan.steve@epa.gov	xingwu@rceesac.cn	simon.pittman@noaa.gov	adamus7@comcast.net	chris.murphy@idfg.idaho.gov	esherwood@tbep.org

EM Description

EM ID em.detail.idHelp ?	EM-88	EM-99	EM-186	EM-392	EM-397	EM-469	EM-699	EM-706	EM-729	EM-863
Summary Description em.detail.summaryDescriptionHelp ?	AUTHOR'S DESCRIPTION: "We define the range of ecosystem services as areas of meaningful supply, similar to a species’ range or area of occupancy. The term ‘‘hotspots’’ was proposed by Norman Myers in the 1980s and refers to areas of high species richness, endemism and/or threat and has been widely used to prioritise areas for biodiversity conservation. Similarly, this study suggests that hotspots for ecosystem services are areas of critical management importance for the service. Here the term ecosystem service hotspot is used to refer to areas which provide large proportions of a particular service, and do not include measures of threat or endemism…In this study, only carbon storage was mapped because of a lack of data on the other functions related to the regulation of global climate such as carbon sequestration and the effects of changes in albedo. Carbon is stored above or below the ground and South African studies have found higher levels of carbon storage in thicket than in savanna, grassland and renosterveld (Mills et al., 2005). This information was used by experts to classify vegetation types (Mucina and Rutherford, 2006), according to their carbon storage potential, into three categories: low to none (e.g. desert), medium (e.g. grassland), high (e.g. thicket, forest) (Rouget et al., 2004). All vegetation types with medium and high carbon storage potential were identified as the range of carbon storage. Areas of high carbon storage potential where it is essential to retain this store were mapped as the carbon storage hotspot."	ABSTRACT: "The study focuses on the EU-25 plus Switzerland and Norway, and develops the methodology proposed by Kienast et al. (2009), which uses expert-and literature-driven modelling methods. The methods are explored in relation to mapping and assessing … “Crop-based production” . . . The potential to deliver services is assumed to be influenced by (a) land-use, (b) net primary production, and (c) bioclimatic and landscape properties such as mountainous terrain." AUTHOR'S DESCRIPTION: "The analysis for "Crop-based production" maps all the areas that are important for food crops produced through commercial agriculture."	ABSTRACT: "The FORCLIM model of forest dynamics was tested against field survey data for its ability to simulate basal area and composition of old forests across broad climatic gradients in western Oregon, USA. The model was also tested for its ability to capture successional trends in ecoregions of the west Cascade Range…The simulation of both stand-replacing and partial-stand disturbances across western Oregon improved agreement between simulated and actual data." Western Oregon forested ecoregions (Omernick classification) were Coastal Volcanics (1d), Mid-coastal Sedimentary (1g), Willamette Valley (3), West Cascade Lowlands (4a), West Cascade Montane (4b), Cascade Crest (4c), East Cascade Ponderosa Pine (9d), and East Cascade Pumice Plateau (9e).	AUTHORS DESCRIPTION: "EPA H2O is a GIS based demonstration tool for assessing ecosystem goods and services (EGS). It was developed as a preliminary assessment tool in support of research being conducted in the Tampa Bay watershed. It provides information, data, approaches and guidance that communities can use to examine alternative land use scenarios in the context of nature’s benefits to the human community. . . EPA H2O allows users for the Tampa Bay estuary and its watershed to: • Gain a greater understanding of the significance of EGS, • Explore the spatial distribution of EGS and other ecosystem features, • Obtain map and summary statistics of EGS production's potential value, • Analyze and compare potential impacts from predicted development scenarios or user specified changes in land use patterns on EGS production's potential value EPA H2O is designed for analyzing data at neighborhood to regional scales.. . The tool is transportable to other locations if the required data are available. . . .	ABSTRACT: "We present concepts and case studies linking the production functions (contributions to recruitment) of critical habitats to commercial and recreational fishery values by combining site specific research data with spatial analysis and population models. We present examples illustrating various spatial scales of analysis, with indicators of economic value, for … commercial blue crab Callinectes sapidus and penaeid shrimp fisheries in the Gulf of Mexico."	ABSTRACT: "Land use changes are known to significantly affect the soil C balance by altering both C inputs and losses. Since the late 1990s, a large area of the Loess Plateau has undergone intensive land use changes during several ecological restoration projects to control soil erosion and combat land degradation, especially in the Grain for Green project. By using remote sensing techniques and the Yasso07 model, we simulated the dynamics of soil organic carbon (SOC) stocks in the Yangjuangou catchment of the Loess Plateau. The performance of the model was evaluated by comparing the simulated results with the intensive field measurements in 2006 and 2011 throughout the catchment. SOC stocks and NPP values of all land use types had generally increased during our study period. The average SOC sequestration rate in the upper 30 cm soil from 2006 to 2011 in the Yangjuangou catchment was approximately 44 g C m-2 yr-1, which was comparable to other studies in the Loess Plateau. Forest and grassland showed a more effective accumulation of SOC than the other land use types in our study area. The Yasso07 model performed reasonably well in predicting the overall dynamics of SOC stock for different land use change types at both the site and catchment scales. The assessment of the model performance indicated that the combination of Yasso07 model and remote sensing data could be used for simulating the effect of land use changes on SOC stock at catchment scale in the Loess Plateau."	ABSTRACT: "Effective management of coral reef ecosystems requires accurate, quantitative and spatially explicit information on patterns of species richness at spatial scales relevant to the management process. We combined empirical modelling techniques, remotely sensed data, field observations and GIS to develop a novel multi-scale approach for predicting fish species richness across a compositionally and topographically complex mosaic of marine habitat types in the U.S. Caribbean. First, the performance of three different modelling techniques (multiple linear regression, neural networks and regression trees) was compared using data from southwestern Puerto Rico and evaluated using multiple measures of predictive accuracy. Second, the best performing model was selected. Third, the generality of the best performing model was assessed through application to two geographically distinct coral reef ecosystems in the neighbouring U.S. Virgin Islands. Overall, regression trees outperformed multiple linear regression and neural networks. The best performing regression tree model of fish species richness (high, medium, low classes) in southwestern Puerto Rico exhibited an overall map accuracy of 75%; 83.4% when only high and low species richness areas were evaluated. In agreement with well recognised ecological relationships, areas of high fish species richness were predicted for the most bathymetrically complex areas with high mean rugosity and high bathymetric variance quantified at two different spatial extents (≤0.01 km2). Water depth and the amount of seagrasses and hard-bottom habitat in the seascape were of secondary importance. This model also provided good predictions in two geographically distinct regions indicating a high level of generality in the habitat variables selected. Results indicated that accurate predictions of fish species richness could be achieved in future studies using remotely sensed measures of topographic complexity alone. This integration of empirical modelling techniques with spatial technologies provides an important new tool in support of ecosystem-based management for coral reef ecosystems."	Author Description: " The Wetland Ecosystem Services Protocol (WESP) is a standardized template for creating regionalized methods which then can be used to rapid assess ecosystem services (functions and values) of all wetland types throughout a focal region. To date, regionalized versions of WESP have been developed (or are ongoing) for government agencies or NGOs in Oregon, Alaska, Alberta, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia. WESP also may be used directly in its current condition to assess these services at the scale of an individual wetland, but without providing a regional context for interpreting that information. Nonetheless, WESP takes into account many landscape factors, especially as they relate to the potential or actual benefits of a wetland’s functions. A WESP assessment requires completing a single three-part data form, taking about 1-3 hours. Responses to questions on that form are based on review of aerial imagery and observations during a single site visit; GIS is not required. After data are entered in an Excel spreadsheet, the spreadsheet uses science-based logic models to automatically generate scores intended to reflect a wetland’s ability to support the following functions: Water Storage and Delay, Stream Flow Support, Water Cooling, Sediment Retention and Stabilization, Phosphorus Retention, Nitrate Removal and Retention, Carbon Sequestration, Organic Nutrient Export, Aquatic Invertebrate Habitat, Anadromous Fish Habitat, Non-anadromous Fish Habitat, Amphibian & Reptile Habitat, Waterbird Feeding Habitat, Waterbird Nesting Habitat, Songbird, Raptor and Mammal Habitat, Pollinator Habitat, and Native Plant Habitat. For all but two of these functions, scores are given for both components of an ecosystem service: function and benefit. In addition, wetland Ecological Condition (Integrity), Public Use and Recognition, Wetland Sensitivity, and Stressors are scored. Scores generated by WESP may be used to (a) estimate a wetland’s relative ecological condition, stress, and sensitivity, (b) compare relative levels of ecosystem services among different wetland types, or (c) compare those in a single wetland before and after restoration, enhancement, or loss."]	A wetland restoration monitoring and assessment program framework was developed for Idaho. The project goal was to assess outcomes of substantial governmental and private investment in wetland restoration, enhancement and creation. The functions, values, condition, and vegetation at restored, enhanced, and created wetlands on private and state lands across Idaho were retrospectively evaluated. Assessment was conducted at multiple spatial scales and intensities. Potential functions and values (ecosystem services) were rapidly assessed using the Oregon Rapid Wetland Assessment Protocol. Vegetation samples were analyzed using Floristic Quality Assessment indices from Washington State. We compared vegetation of restored, enhanced, and created wetlands with reference wetlands that occurred in similar hydrogeomorphic environments determined at the HUC 12 level.	ABSTRACT: "The Tampa Bay estuary is a unique and valued ecosystem that currently thrives between subtropical and temperate climates along Florida’s west-central coast. The watershed is considered urbanized (42 % lands developed); however, a suite of critical coastal habitats still persists. Current management efforts are focused toward restoring the historic balance of these habitat types to a benchmark 1950s period. We have modeled the anticipated changes to a suite of habitats within the Tampa Bay estuary using the sea level affecting marshes model (SLAMM) under various sea level rise (SLR) scenarios. Modeled changes to the distribution and coverage of mangrove habitats within the estuary are expected to dominate the overall proportions of future critical coastal habitats. Modeled losses in salt marsh, salt barren, and coastal freshwater wetlands by 2100 will significantly affect the progress achieved in ‘‘Restoring the Balance’’ of these habitat types over recent periods…"
Specific Policy or Decision Context Cited em.detail.policyDecisionContextHelp ?	None identified	None identified	None Identified	None reported	None identified	None	None provided	None identified	None identified	None identified
Biophysical Context	Semi-arid environment. Rainfall varies geographically from less than 50 to about 3000 mm per year (annual mean 450 mm). Soils are mostly very shallow with limited irrigation potential.	No additional description provided	Coastal to montane, Pacific Northwest US (Oregon) forests.	Not applicable	Estuarine environments and marsh-land interfaces	Agricultural plain, hills, gulleys, forest, grassland, Central China	Hard and soft benthic habitat types approximately to the 33m isobath	None	restored, enhanced and created wetlands	No additional description provided
EM Scenario Drivers em.detail.scenarioDriverHelp ?	No scenarios presented	No scenarios presented	Two scenarios modelled, forests with and without fire	Land Use, EGS algorithm values,	Shellfish type; Changes to submerged aquatic vegetation (SAV)	Land use change	No scenarios presented	N/A	Sites, function or habitat focus	Varying sea level rise (baseline - 2m), and two habitat adaption strategies

EM Relationship to Other EMs or Applications

EM ID em.detail.idHelp ?	EM-88	EM-99	EM-186	EM-392	EM-397	EM-469	EM-699	EM-706	EM-729	EM-863
Method Only, Application of Method or Model Run em.detail.methodOrAppHelp ?	Method + Application	Method + Application	Method + Application (multiple runs exist) View EM Runs ? Comment: Related document ID 22 is a secondary source providing tree species specific parameters in appendix.	Method + Application	Method + Application (multiple runs exist) View EM Runs ? Comment: Ten runs; blue crab and penaeid shrimp, each combined with five different submerged aquatic vegetation habitat areas.	Method + Application	Method + Application	Method Only	Method + Application (multiple runs exist) View EM Runs	Method + Application (multiple runs exist) View EM Runs
New or Pre-existing EM? em.detail.newOrExistHelp ?	New or revised model	New or revised model	Application of existing model	New or revised model	New or revised model	Application of existing model	Application of existing model	New or revised model	WESP - Urban Stormwater Treatment	Application of existing model

Related EMs (for example, other versions or derivations of this EM) described in ESML

EM ID em.detail.idHelp ?	EM-88	EM-99	EM-186	EM-392	EM-397	EM-469	EM-699	EM-706	EM-729	EM-863
Document ID for related EM em.detail.relatedEmDocumentIdHelp ?	Doc-271	Doc-231 \| Doc-228	Doc-22 \| Doc-23 ? Comment: Related document ID 22 provides tree species specific parameters in appendix.	None	None	Doc-343 \| Doc-342	Doc-355	None	Doc-390	Doc-412 \| Doc-413
EM ID for related EM em.detail.relatedEmEmIdHelp ?	EM-85 \| EM-86 \| EM-87	EM-119 \| EM-120 \| EM-121 \| EM-162 \| EM-164 \| EM-165 \| EM-122 \| EM-123 \| EM-124 \| EM-125 \| EM-166 \| EM-170 \| EM-171	EM-146 \| EM-208 \| EM-224	None	EM-604 \| EM-603	EM-466 \| EM-467 \| EM-480 \| EM-485	EM-590 \| EM-698	EM-718	EM-718 \| EM-734	EM-857

EM Modeling Approach

EM Relationship to Time

EM ID em.detail.idHelp ?	EM-88	EM-99	EM-186	EM-392	EM-397	EM-469	EM-699	EM-706	EM-729	EM-863
EM Temporal Extent em.detail.tempExtentHelp ?	Not reported	2000	>650 yrs	Not applicable	1950 - 2050	1969-2011	2000-2005	Not applicable	2010-2011	2002-2100
EM Time Dependence em.detail.timeDependencyHelp ?	time-stationary	time-stationary	time-dependent	time-stationary	time-dependent	time-dependent	time-stationary	time-stationary	time-dependent	time-stationary
EM Time Reference (Future/Past) em.detail.futurePastHelp ?	Not applicable	Not applicable	past time	Not applicable	future time	past time	Not applicable	Not applicable	past time	Not applicable
EM Time Continuity em.detail.continueDiscreteHelp ?	Not applicable	Not applicable	discrete	Not applicable	discrete	discrete	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable
EM Temporal Grain Size Value em.detail.tempGrainSizeHelp ?	Not applicable	Not applicable	1	Not applicable	Varies by Run	1	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable
EM Temporal Grain Size Unit em.detail.tempGrainSizeUnitHelp ?	Not applicable	Not applicable	Year	Not applicable	Year	Year	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable

EM Spatial Extent

EM ID em.detail.idHelp ?	EM-88	EM-99	EM-186	EM-392	EM-397	EM-469	EM-699	EM-706	EM-729	EM-863
Bounding Type em.detail.boundingTypeHelp ?	Geopolitical	Geopolitical	Physiographic or ecological	Geopolitical ? Comment: Extent was Tampa Bay area in example, but boundary can be geopolitical or watershed derived.	Physiographic or ecological	Watershed/Catchment/HUC	Physiographic or ecological	Not applicable	Multiple unrelated locations (e.g., meta-analysis)	Watershed/Catchment/HUC
Spatial Extent Name em.detail.extentNameHelp ?	South Africa	The EU-25 plus Switzerland and Norway	Western Oregon, north of 43.00 N to Washington border	Tampa Bay region	Gulf of Mexico (estuarine and coastal)	Yangjuangou catchment	SW Puerto Rico,	Not applicable	Wetlands in idaho	Tampa Bay estuary watershed
Spatial Extent Area (Magnitude) em.detail.extentAreaHelp ?	>1,000,000 km^2	>1,000,000 km^2	10,000-100,000 km^2	1000-10,000 km^2.	10,000-100,000 km^2	1-10 km^2	100-1000 km^2	Not applicable	100,000-1,000,000 km^2	1000-10,000 km^2.

Spatial Distribution of Computations

EM ID em.detail.idHelp ?	EM-88	EM-99	EM-186	EM-392	EM-397	EM-469	EM-699	EM-706	EM-729	EM-863
EM Spatial Distribution em.detail.distributeLumpHelp ?	spatially distributed (in at least some cases)	spatially distributed (in at least some cases)	spatially distributed (in at least some cases)	spatially distributed (in at least some cases)	spatially distributed (in at least some cases) ? Comment: Computations at this pixel scale pertain to certain variables specific to Mobile Bay.	spatially distributed (in at least some cases)	spatially distributed (in at least some cases)	spatially distributed (in at least some cases)	spatially lumped (in all cases)	spatially distributed (in at least some cases)
Spatial Grain Type em.detail.spGrainTypeHelp ?	other (specify), for irregular (e.g., stream reach, lake basin)	area, for pixel or radial feature	area, for pixel or radial feature	area, for pixel or radial feature	area, for pixel or radial feature	area, for pixel or radial feature	area, for pixel or radial feature	area, for pixel or radial feature	Not applicable	area, for pixel or radial feature
Spatial Grain Size em.detail.spGrainSizeHelp ?	Distributed across catchments with average size of 65,000 ha	1 km x 1 km	0.08 ha	30m x 30m	55.2 km^2	30m x 30m	not reported	not reported	Not applicable	10 x 10 m

EM Structure and Computation Approach

EM ID em.detail.idHelp ?	EM-88	EM-99	EM-186	EM-392	EM-397	EM-469	EM-699	EM-706	EM-729	EM-863
EM Computational Approach em.detail.emComputationalApproachHelp ?	Analytic	Logic- or rule-based	Numeric	Analytic	Numeric	Numeric	Analytic	Analytic	Numeric	Analytic
EM Determinism em.detail.deterStochHelp ?	deterministic	deterministic	deterministic	deterministic	deterministic	deterministic	deterministic	deterministic	deterministic	deterministic
Statistical Estimation of EM em.detail.statisticalEstimationHelp ?	None	None	Conventional (frequentist) statistics	Conventional (frequentist) statistics	Conventional (frequentist) statistics	Conventional (frequentist) statistics	Conventional (frequentist) statistics	Conventional (frequentist) statistics	Conventional (frequentist) statistics	None

Model Checking Procedures Used

EM ID em.detail.idHelp ?	EM-88	EM-99	EM-186	EM-392	EM-397	EM-469	EM-699	EM-706	EM-729	EM-863
Model Calibration Reported? em.detail.calibrationHelp ?	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	Not applicable	No	No
Model Goodness of Fit Reported? em.detail.goodnessFitHelp ?	No	No	No	No	No	Yes ? Comment: For the year 2006 and 2011	Yes	Not applicable	No	No
Goodness of Fit (metric\| value \| unit) em.detail.goodnessFitValuesHelp ?	None	None	None	None	None	Regression coefficient \| 0.359 \| unitless Regression coefficient, Rsquared \| 0.20 \| unitless	R squared \| 0.56 \| unitless Cohen's Kappa statistic \| 0.53 \| unitless AUC \| 0.79 \| unitless	None	None	None
Model Operational Validation Reported? em.detail.validationHelp ?	No	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	No
Model Uncertainty Analysis Reported? em.detail.uncertaintyAnalysisHelp ?	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	Not applicable	No	No
Model Sensitivity Analysis Reported? em.detail.sensAnalysisHelp ?	No	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	Not applicable	No	No
Model Sensitivity Analysis Include Interactions? em.detail.interactionConsiderHelp ?	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	No	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable

EM Locations, Environments, Ecology

Location of EM Application

Terrestrial location (Classification hierarchy: Continent > Country > U.S. State [United States only])

EM-88	EM-99	EM-186	EM-392	EM-397	EM-469	EM-699	EM-706	EM-729	EM-863
Africa South Africa	Europe Cyprus Portugal Malta Greece Austria Latvia Netherlands Sweden Ireland Luxembourg Poland Slovakia Slovenia France Lithuania Hungary Switzerland Spain Czech Republic Belgium Norway Finland Denmark Italy Germany Estonia	North America United States Oregon	North America United States Florida	North America United States Mississippi Texas Louisiana Alabama Florida	Asia China	None	None	North America United States Idaho	North America United States Florida

Marine location (Classification hierarchy: Realm > Region > Province > Ecoregion)

EM-88	EM-99	EM-186	EM-392	EM-397	EM-469	EM-699	EM-706	EM-729	EM-863
None	None	None	None	Temperate North Atlantic Northwest Atlantic Warm Temperate Northwest Atlantic Northern Gulf of Mexico	None	Tropical Atlantic West Tropical Atlantic Tropical Northwestern Atlantic Greater Antilles	None	None	Tropical Atlantic West Tropical Atlantic Tropical Northwestern Atlantic Floridian

Centroid Lat/Long (Decimal Degree)

EM ID em.detail.idHelp ?	EM-88	EM-99	EM-186	EM-392	EM-397	EM-469	EM-699	EM-706	EM-729	EM-863
Centroid Latitude em.detail.ddLatHelp ?	-30	50.53	44.66	28.05	30.44	36.7	17.79	Not applicable	44.06	27.76
Centroid Longitude em.detail.ddLongHelp ?	25	7.6	-122.56	-82.52	-87.99	109.52	-64.62	Not applicable	-114.69	-82.54
Centroid Datum em.detail.datumHelp ?	WGS84	WGS84	WGS84	WGS84	WGS84	WGS84	WGS84	Not applicable	WGS84	WGS84
Centroid Coordinates Status em.detail.coordinateStatusHelp ?	Estimated	Estimated	Estimated	Estimated	Estimated	Provided	Estimated	Not applicable	Estimated	Estimated

Environments and Scales Modeled

EM ID em.detail.idHelp ?	EM-88	EM-99	EM-186	EM-392	EM-397	EM-469	EM-699	EM-706	EM-729	EM-863
EM Environmental Sub-Class em.detail.emEnvironmentalSubclassHelp ?	Terrestrial Environment (sub-classes not fully specified)	Terrestrial Environment (sub-classes not fully specified)	Forests	Terrestrial Environment (sub-classes not fully specified)	Near Coastal Marine and Estuarine	Terrestrial Environment (sub-classes not fully specified) \| Agroecosystems	Near Coastal Marine and Estuarine	Inland Wetlands	Inland Wetlands	Inland Wetlands \| Near Coastal Marine and Estuarine \| Terrestrial Environment (sub-classes not fully specified)
Specific Environment Type em.detail.specificEnvTypeHelp ?	Not applicable	Not applicable	Primarily conifer forest	All terestrial landcover and waterbodies	Submerged aquatic vegetation in estuaries and coastal lagoons	Loess plain	shallow coral reefs	Wetlands	created, restored and enhanced wetlands	Esturary and associated urban and terrestrial environment
EM Ecological Scale em.detail.ecoScaleHelp ?	Ecological scale is finer than that of the Environmental Sub-class	Ecological scale is finer than that of the Environmental Sub-class	Ecological scale is finer than that of the Environmental Sub-class	Ecological scale is finer than that of the Environmental Sub-class	Ecological scale is finer than that of the Environmental Sub-class	Ecological scale is finer than that of the Environmental Sub-class	Ecological scale is finer than that of the Environmental Sub-class	Ecological scale corresponds to the Environmental Sub-class	Ecological scale is finer than that of the Environmental Sub-class	Ecological scale is finer than that of the Environmental Sub-class

Scale and taxa of organisms modeled

Scale of differentiation of organisms modeled

EM ID em.detail.idHelp ?	EM-88	EM-99	EM-186	EM-392	EM-397	EM-469	EM-699	EM-706	EM-729	EM-863
EM Organismal Scale em.detail.orgScaleHelp ?	Not applicable	Not applicable	Species	Not applicable	Species	Not applicable	Guild or Assemblage	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable

Taxonomic level and name of organisms or groups identified

EM-88	EM-99	EM-186	EM-392	EM-397	EM-469	EM-699	EM-706	EM-729	EM-863
None Available	None Available	Species Pinus ponderosa Abies amabilis Tsuga mertensiana Thuja plicata Picea sitchensis Abies procera Abies grandis Chamaecyparis nootkatensis Tsuga heterophylla Other (trees) Quercus garryana Pseudotsuga menziesii	None Available	Family Penaeid shrimp Species Callinectes sapidus (blue crab)	None Available	other (fish class)	None Available	None Available	None Available

EnviroAtlas URL

EM-88	EM-99	EM-186	EM-392	EM-397	EM-469	EM-699	EM-706	EM-729	EM-863
None Available	None Available	GAP Ecological Systems, Average Annual Precipitation, U.S. EPA (Omernik) ecoregions	The National Hydrography Dataset (NHD), GAP Ecological Systems, Total Annual Reduced Nitrogen Deposition, Waterbody area, Percent GAP Status 1 & 2, Acres of Land Enrolled in the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP), The Watershed Boundary Dataset (WBD), Carbon Storage by Tree Biomass	Big game hunting recreation demand	Average Annual Precipitation, Carbon storage by tree biomass (kg/m2), Agricultural water use (million gallons/day), Carbon Storage by Tree Biomass	None Available	None Available	Total Annual Reduced Nitrogen Deposition, Carbon Storage by Tree Biomass	National Hydrography Dataset Plus (NHD PlusV2)

EM Ecosystem Goods and Services (EGS) potentially modeled, by classification system

CICES v 4.3 - Common International Classification of Ecosystem Services (Section > Division > Group > Class)

EM-88	EM-99	EM-186	EM-392	EM-397	EM-469	EM-699	EM-706	EM-729	EM-863
[Ecosystem] Regulation & Maintenance Maintenance of physical, chemical, biological conditions Atmospheric composition and climate regulation Global climate regulation by reduction of greenhouse gas concentrations	[Ecosystem] Provisioning Nutrition Biomass Cultivated crops	[Ecosystem] Provisioning Materials Biomass Fibres and other materials from plants, algae and animals for direct use or processing [Ecosystem] Regulation & Maintenance Maintenance of physical, chemical, biological conditions Lifecycle maintenance, habitat and gene pool protection Maintaining nursery populations and habitats	[Ecosystem] Regulation & Maintenance Maintenance of physical, chemical, biological conditions Atmospheric composition and climate regulation Global climate regulation by reduction of greenhouse gas concentrations Mediation of flows Liquid flows Flood protection Mediation of waste, toxics and other nuisances Mediation by ecosystems Filtration/sequestration/storage/accumulation by ecosystems	[Ecosystem] Provisioning Nutrition Biomass Wild animals and their outputs	[Ecosystem] Regulation & Maintenance Maintenance of physical, chemical, biological conditions Atmospheric composition and climate regulation Micro and regional climate regulation Global climate regulation by reduction of greenhouse gas concentrations	[Ecosystem] Regulation & Maintenance Maintenance of physical, chemical, biological conditions Lifecycle maintenance, habitat and gene pool protection Maintaining nursery populations and habitats	[Ecosystem] Regulation & Maintenance Maintenance of physical, chemical, biological conditions Soil formation and composition Decomposition and fixing processes Atmospheric composition and climate regulation Global climate regulation by reduction of greenhouse gas concentrations Lifecycle maintenance, habitat and gene pool protection Maintaining nursery populations and habitats Water conditions Chemical condition of freshwaters Mediation of flows Liquid flows Flood protection Hydrological cycle and water flow maintenance Mediation of waste, toxics and other nuisances Mediation by biota Filtration/sequestration/storage/accumulation by micro-organisms, algae, plants, and animals	[Ecosystem] Regulation & Maintenance Maintenance of physical, chemical, biological conditions Lifecycle maintenance, habitat and gene pool protection Maintaining nursery populations and habitats Water conditions Chemical condition of freshwaters Mediation of flows Liquid flows Flood protection Hydrological cycle and water flow maintenance Mass flows Mass stabilisation and control of erosion rates Mediation of waste, toxics and other nuisances Mediation by biota Filtration/sequestration/storage/accumulation by micro-organisms, algae, plants, and animals	[Ecosystem] Regulation & Maintenance Maintenance of physical, chemical, biological conditions Lifecycle maintenance, habitat and gene pool protection Maintaining nursery populations and habitats

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(Environmental Subclass > Ecological End-Product (EEP) > EEP Subclass > EEP Modifier)

EM-88	EM-99	EM-186	EM-392	EM-397	EM-469	EM-699	EM-706	EM-729	EM-863
None	Agroecosystems (22) Flora (5) food crops Stock Indicator	None	Rivers and Streams (111) Composite (8) Regulation of extreme events Extreme Event Indicator	Near Coastal Marine/Estuarine (113) Fauna (4) Crabs Stock Indicator Shrimp Stock Indicator	None	Near Coastal Marine/Estuarine (113) Fauna (4) Fish Stock Indicator	Wetlands (12) Water (3) Liquid water Flow Indicator Quality Indicator Fauna (4) Wildlife Site Indicator Pollinators Quality Indicator Fish Stock Indicator Birds Site Indicator	None	None

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CICES v 4.3 - Common International Classification of Ecosystem Services (Section > Division > Group > Class)

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