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EM Identity and Description

EM ID variable.detail.emIdHelp ?	EM-969
Document Author variable.detail.emDocumentAuthorHelp ?	Eppink, F.V., van den Bergh, J.C.J.M, and P. Rietveld
Document Year variable.detail.emDocumentYearHelp ?	2004

Variable General Info

Name variable.detail.varNameHelp ?	Agricultural area change	Animal species richness	Groundwater level	Plant species richness	Total income	Urban area change	Urban growth	Willingness to pay (conservationists)	Willingness to pay (expansionists)
Variable ID variable.detail.varIdHelp ?	23966	23967	23968	23970	23971	23965	23972	23974	23973
Symbol variable.detail.varSymbolHelp ?	Not reported	Ra	Not reported	Rp	Not reported	Not reported	ot reported	WTPn	WTPu
Qualitative-Quantitative variable.detail.continuousCategoricalHelp ?	Quantitative (Cardinal Only)	Quantitative (Cardinal Only)	Quantitative (Cardinal Only)	Quantitative (Cardinal Only)	Quantitative (Cardinal Only)	Quantitative (Cardinal Only)	Quantitative (Cardinal Only)	Quantitative (Cardinal Only)	Quantitative (Cardinal Only)
Cardinal-Ordinal variable.detail.cardinalOrdinalHelp ?	Cardinal	Cardinal	Cardinal	Cardinal	Cardinal	Cardinal	Cardinal	Cardinal	Cardinal
Units variable.detail.varUnitsHelp ?	kilometers^2	No.	Not reported	No.	Not reportedds	Not reported	Not reported	Not reported	unitless

Variable Typology

Name variable.detail.varNameHelp ?	Agricultural area change	Animal species richness	Groundwater level	Plant species richness	Total income	Urban area change	Urban growth	Willingness to pay (conservationists)	Willingness to pay (expansionists)
Predictor-Intermediate-Response variable.detail.displayVariableTypeHelp ?	Intermediate (Computed) Variable	Intermediate (Computed) Variable	Intermediate (Computed) Variable	Intermediate (Computed) Variable	Intermediate (Computed) Variable	Intermediate (Computed) Variable	Intermediate (Computed) Variable	Intermediate (Computed) Variable	Intermediate (Computed) Variable
Predictor Variable Type variable.detail.displayPredictorVariableTypeHelp ?	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable
Response Variable Type variable.detail.resClassHelp ?	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable
Data Source/Type variable.detail.dataTypeHelp ?	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable
Variable Classification Hierarchy variable.detail.vchLevel1Help ?	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	5. Ecosystem Attributes and Potential Supply of Ecosystem Goods and Services	7. Monetary Values	2. Land Surface (or Water Body) Cover, Use, Substrate, or Metric	2. Land Surface (or Water Body) Cover, Use, Substrate, or Metric	7. Monetary Values	7. Monetary Values
	--Land use/land cover type or dominant habitat type	--Biological characteristics, processes or requirements of living ecosystem components	--Physical/chemical characteristics of nonliving ecosystem components	--Biological characteristics, processes or requirements of living ecosystem components	--Other, multiple, unspecified or unclear	--Land use/land cover type or dominant habitat type	--Land use/land cover type or dominant habitat type	--Land value, price or cost (ecosystem service-based)	--Land value, price or cost (ecosystem service-based)
	----Agroecosystems	----Biological characteristics, processes or requirements of fauna	----Physical/chemical characteristics of soils, substrates, rocks	----Biological characteristics, processes or requirements of flora and fungi		----Developed and urban land cover	----Developed and urban land cover
	------Other, multiple, unspecified or unclear	------Other, multiple, unspecified or unclear	------Soil hydrologic characteristics	------Species richness and biodiversity indices		------Urban	------Urban

Variable Spatial Characteristics

Name variable.detail.varNameHelp ?	Agricultural area change	Animal species richness	Groundwater level	Plant species richness	Total income	Urban area change	Urban growth	Willingness to pay (conservationists)	Willingness to pay (expansionists)
Spatial Extent Area variable.detail.spExtentHelp ?	10-100 km^2	10-100 km^2	10-100 km^2	10-100 km^2	10-100 km^2	10-100 km^2	10-100 km^2	10-100 km^2	10-100 km^2
Spatially Distributed? variable.detail.spDistributedHelp ?	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
Observations Spatially Patterned? variable.detail.regularSpGrainHelp ?	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable
Spatial Grain Type variable.detail.spGrainTypeHelp ?	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable
Spatial Grain Size variable.detail.spGrainSizeHelp ?	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable
Spatial Density variable.detail.spDensityHelp ?	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable
EnviroAtlas URL variable.detail.enviroAtlasURLHelp ?	GAP Ecological Systems				Enabling Conditions	GAP Ecological Systems	GAP Ecological Systems

Variable Temporal Characteristics

Name variable.detail.varNameHelp ?	Agricultural area change	Animal species richness	Groundwater level	Plant species richness	Total income	Urban area change	Urban growth	Willingness to pay (conservationists)	Willingness to pay (expansionists)
Temporal Extent variable.detail.tempExtentHelp ?	Model run time	Model run time	Model run time	Model run time	Model run time	Model run time	Model run time	Model run time	Model run time
Temporally Distributed? variable.detail.tempDistributedHelp ?	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Regular Temporal Grain? variable.detail.regularTempGrainHelp ?	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Not applicable	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Temporal Grain Size Value variable.detail.tempGrainSizeValHelp ?	1	1	1	1	Not applicable	1	1	1	1
Temporal Grain Size Units variable.detail.tempGrainSizeUnitHelp ?	Year	Year	Year	Year	Not applicable	Year	Year	Year	Year
Temporal Density variable.detail.tempDensityHelp ?	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable

Variable Values

Name variable.detail.varNameHelp ?	Agricultural area change	Animal species richness	Groundwater level	Plant species richness	Total income	Urban area change	Urban growth	Willingness to pay (conservationists)	Willingness to pay (expansionists)
Units variable.detail.estUnitHelp ?	Not reported	Not reported ? Comment: Initial model run value	Not reported	Not reported ? Comment: Initial model start value	Not reported	Not reported	Not reported	Not reported	Not reported
Min Value variable.detail.minEstHelp ?	Not reported	Not reported	Not reported	Not reported	Not reported	Not reported	Not reported	Not reported	Not reported
Max Value variable.detail.estHelp ?	Not reported	Not reported	Not reported	Not reported	Not reported	Not reported	Not reported	Not reported	Not reported
Other Value Type variable.detail.natureOtherEstHelp ?	Not applicable	Single Observation or Parameter Value	Not applicable	Single Observation or Parameter Value	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable
Other Value variable.detail.otherEstHelp ?	Not reported	100	Not reported	90	Not reported	Not reported	Not reported	Not reported	Not reported

Variable Variability and Sensitivity

Name variable.detail.varNameHelp ?	Agricultural area change	Animal species richness	Groundwater level	Plant species richness	Total income	Urban area change	Urban growth	Willingness to pay (conservationists)	Willingness to pay (expansionists)
Variability Expression Given? variable.detail.variabilityExpHelp ?	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
Variability Metric variable.detail.variabilityMetricHelp ?	None	None	None	None	None	None	None	None	None
Variability Value variable.detail.variabilityValueHelp ?	None	None	None	None	None	None	None	None	None
Variability Units	None	None	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	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	Not applicable	Not applicable

Variable Operational Validation (Response Variables only)

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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 ?

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Use of Measured Response Data

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Variables Details

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EM-969: Modelling biodiversity and land use: urban growth, agriculture and nature in a wetland area

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