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EM Identity and Description

EM ID variable.detail.emIdHelp ?	EM-92
Document Author variable.detail.emDocumentAuthorHelp ?	Schriever, C. A., and Liess, M.
Document Year variable.detail.emDocumentYearHelp ?	2007

Variable General Info

Name variable.detail.varNameHelp ?	Amount of arable land for major crops	Pesticide application rate for major crops	Precipitation depth	Rainfall interception by major crops	Slope	Soil organic carbon content	Soil texture
Variable ID variable.detail.varIdHelp ?	1288	1280	1285	1281	1284	1283	1286
Symbol variable.detail.varSymbolHelp ?	Acell	D	P	I	s	OC	T
Qualitative-Quantitative variable.detail.continuousCategoricalHelp ?	Quantitative (Cardinal Only)	Quantitative (Cardinal Only)	Quantitative (Cardinal Only)	Quantitative (Cardinal Only)	Quantitative (Cardinal Only)	Quantitative (Cardinal Only)	Qualitative (Class, Rating or Ranking)
Cardinal-Ordinal variable.detail.cardinalOrdinalHelp ?	Cardinal	Cardinal	Cardinal	Cardinal	Cardinal	Cardinal	Non-Ordinal
Units variable.detail.varUnitsHelp ?	km^2	kg/ha	mm	%	%	%	Not applicable

Variable Typology

Name variable.detail.varNameHelp ?	Amount of arable land for major crops	Pesticide application rate for major crops	Precipitation depth	Rainfall interception by major crops	Slope	Soil organic carbon content	Soil texture
Predictor-Intermediate-Response variable.detail.displayVariableTypeHelp ?	Predictor	Predictor	Predictor	Predictor	Predictor	Predictor	Predictor
Predictor Variable Type variable.detail.displayPredictorVariableTypeHelp ?	Time- or Space-varying Variable	Time- or Space-varying Variable	Time- or Space-varying Variable	Time- or Space-varying Variable	Time- or Space-varying Variable	Time- or Space-varying Variable	Time- or Space-varying Variable
Response Variable Type variable.detail.resClassHelp ?	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable
Data Source/Type variable.detail.dataTypeHelp ?	Map or database (e.g., wide coverage, wide availability, measured or modeled)	Map or database (e.g., wide coverage, wide availability, measured or modeled)	Map or database (e.g., wide coverage, wide availability, measured or modeled)	Transferred Values (e.g., from literature; transferred spatially, temporally or across scales)	Map or database (e.g., wide coverage, wide availability, measured or modeled)	Map or database (e.g., wide coverage, wide availability, measured or modeled)	Map or database (e.g., wide coverage, wide availability, measured or modeled)
Variable Classification Hierarchy variable.detail.vchLevel1Help ?	5. Ecosystem Attributes and Potential Supply of Ecosystem Goods and Services	4. Human-Produced Stressor or Enhancer of Ecosystem Goods and Services Production	5. Ecosystem Attributes and Potential Supply of Ecosystem Goods and Services	5. Ecosystem Attributes and Potential Supply of Ecosystem Goods and Services	2. Land Surface (or Water Body) Cover, Use, Substrate, or Metric	5. Ecosystem Attributes and Potential Supply of Ecosystem Goods and Services	5. Ecosystem Attributes and Potential Supply of Ecosystem Goods and Services
	--CICES categories: Ecosystem goods and services - or landscape-level indices of suitability to supply EGS	--Human-caused release, presence or characteristics of polluting substances	--Physical/chemical characteristics of nonliving ecosystem components	--Physical/chemical characteristics of nonliving ecosystem components	--Geographic position, horizontal or vertical	--Chemical (C, N, P, sediment/particulate) characteristics of ecosystem components	--Physical/chemical characteristics of nonliving ecosystem components
	----Suitability to supply provisioning services-Nutrition	----Release, presence or characteristics of pesticides and herbicides	----Physical/chemical characteristics of air, meteorology and precipitation	----Physical/chemical characteristics of water	----Slope, roughness, ruggedness	----Carbon-related characteristics of ecosystem components	----Physical/chemical characteristics of soils, substrates, rocks
	------Cultivated crops		------Meteorology data and parameters (including precipitation)	------Water volume or flow in/on vegetation (not including evapotranspiration)		------Carbon presence (in terrestrial or aquatic ecosystem components)	------Soil structural characteristics

Variable Spatial Characteristics

Name variable.detail.varNameHelp ?	Amount of arable land for major crops	Pesticide application rate for major crops	Precipitation depth	Rainfall interception by major crops	Slope	Soil organic carbon content	Soil texture
Spatial Extent Area variable.detail.spExtentHelp ?	>1,000,000 km^2	>1,000,000 km^2	>1,000,000 km^2	>1,000,000 km^2	>1,000,000 km^2	>1,000,000 km^2	>1,000,000 km^2
Spatially Distributed? variable.detail.spDistributedHelp ?	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Observations Spatially Patterned? variable.detail.regularSpGrainHelp ?	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Spatial Grain Type variable.detail.spGrainTypeHelp ?	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
Spatial Grain Size variable.detail.spGrainSizeHelp ?	10 km x 10 km	10 km x 10 km	10 km x 10 km	10 km x 10 km	10 km x 10 km	10 km x 10 km	10 km x 10 km
Spatial Density variable.detail.spDensityHelp ?	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable
EnviroAtlas URL variable.detail.enviroAtlasURLHelp ?	Hectares of Vegetable Crops	Stream Length Impaired by Pesticides	Average Annual Precipitation

Variable Temporal Characteristics

Name variable.detail.varNameHelp ?	Amount of arable land for major crops	Pesticide application rate for major crops	Precipitation depth	Rainfall interception by major crops	Slope	Soil organic carbon content	Soil texture
Temporal Extent variable.detail.tempExtentHelp ?	2000	2000	2000	2000	2000	2000	2000
Temporally Distributed? variable.detail.tempDistributedHelp ?	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	No	No
Regular Temporal Grain? variable.detail.regularTempGrainHelp ?	Not applicable	Not applicable	Yes	Yes	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable
Temporal Grain Size Value variable.detail.tempGrainSizeValHelp ?	Not applicable	Not applicable	1	1	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable
Temporal Grain Size Units variable.detail.tempGrainSizeUnitHelp ?	Not applicable	Not applicable	Day	Day	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable
Temporal Density variable.detail.tempDensityHelp ?	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable

Variable Values

Name variable.detail.varNameHelp ?	Amount of arable land for major crops	Pesticide application rate for major crops	Precipitation depth	Rainfall interception by major crops	Slope	Soil organic carbon content	Soil texture
Units variable.detail.estUnitHelp ?	km^2	kg/ha	mm	Not reported	%	%	Not applicable
Min Value variable.detail.minEstHelp ?	0	0	0	Not reported	0	0	Not applicable
Max Value variable.detail.estHelp ?	100	6.5	123	Not reported	70	57	Not applicable
Other Value Type variable.detail.natureOtherEstHelp ?	Mean	Not applicable	Mean	Not applicable	Mean	Mean	Not applicable
Other Value variable.detail.otherEstHelp ?	30.76	Not reported	30	Not reported	8.1	6.9	Not applicable

Variable Variability and Sensitivity

Name variable.detail.varNameHelp ?	Amount of arable land for major crops	Pesticide application rate for major crops	Precipitation depth	Rainfall interception by major crops	Slope	Soil organic carbon content	Soil texture
Variability Expression Given? variable.detail.variabilityExpHelp ?	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
Variability Metric variable.detail.variabilityMetricHelp ?	None	None	None	None	None	None	None
Variability Value variable.detail.variabilityValueHelp ?	None	None	None	None	None	None	None
Variability Units	None	None	None	None	None	None	None
Resampling Used? variable.detail.bootstrappingHelp ?	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable
Variability Expression Used in Modeling? variable.detail.variabilityUsedHelp ?	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable

Variable Operational Validation (Response Variables only)

Name variable.detail.varNameHelp ?
Variable ID variable.detail.varIdHelp ?
Validated? variable.detail.resValidatedHelp ?
Validation Approach (within, between, etc.) variable.detail.validationApproachHelp ?
Validation Quality (Qual/Quant) variable.detail.validationQualityHelp ?
Validation Method (Stat/Deviance) variable.detail.validationMethodHelp ?
Validation Metric variable.detail.validationMetricHelp ?
Validation Value variable.detail.validationValHelp ?
Validation Units
Use of Measured Response Data variable.detail.measuredResponseDataHelp ?

Name

Variable ID

Validated?

Validation Approach (within, between, etc.)

Validation Quality (Qual/Quant)

Validation Method (Stat/Deviance)

Validation Metric

Validation Value

Validation Units

Use of Measured Response Data

US EPA

EcoService Models Library (ESML)

Variables Details

: (EM-92)