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EM Identity and Description

EM ID variable.detail.emIdHelp ?	EM-432
Document Author variable.detail.emDocumentAuthorHelp ?	Amelia Smith, Susan Harrell Yee, Marc Russell, Jill Awkerman and William S. Fisher
Document Year variable.detail.emDocumentYearHelp ?	2017

Variable General Info

Name variable.detail.varNameHelp ?	Land use land cover class	Percent impervious cover	Lawn nitrogen fixation rate	Nitrogen fixation rate	Watershed boundary	Urban nitrogen fixation rate	Mean nitrogen fixation rate for Lower Guanica watershed	Mean nitrogen fixation rate for Upper Guanica watershed
Variable ID variable.detail.varIdHelp ?	9122	9121	9123	9124	9574	9131	9135	9134
Symbol variable.detail.varSymbolHelp ?	LULC	Not reported	Not reported	Not reported	Not reported	Not reported	Not reported	Not reported
Qualitative-Quantitative variable.detail.continuousCategoricalHelp ?	Qualitative (Class, Rating or Ranking)	Quantitative (Cardinal Only)	Quantitative (Cardinal Only)	Quantitative (Cardinal Only)	Qualitative (Class, Rating or Ranking)	Quantitative (Cardinal Only)	Quantitative (Cardinal Only)	Quantitative (Cardinal Only)
Cardinal-Ordinal variable.detail.cardinalOrdinalHelp ?	Non-Ordinal	Cardinal	Cardinal	Cardinal	Non-Ordinal	Cardinal	Cardinal	Cardinal
Units variable.detail.varUnitsHelp ?	Not applicable	%	g N m^-2 yr^-1	g N m^-2 yr^-1	Not applicable	g N m^-2 yr^-1	g N m^-2 yr^-1	g N m^-2 yr^-1

Variable Typology

Name variable.detail.varNameHelp ?	Land use land cover class	Percent impervious cover	Lawn nitrogen fixation rate	Nitrogen fixation rate	Watershed boundary	Urban nitrogen fixation rate	Mean nitrogen fixation rate for Lower Guanica watershed	Mean nitrogen fixation rate for Upper Guanica watershed
Predictor-Intermediate-Response variable.detail.displayVariableTypeHelp ?	Predictor	Predictor	Predictor	Predictor	Predictor	Intermediate (Computed) Variable	Response	Response
Predictor Variable Type variable.detail.displayPredictorVariableTypeHelp ?	Time- or Space-varying Variable	Time- or Space-varying Variable	Constant or Parameter	Constant or Parameter	Constant or Parameter	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable
Response Variable Type variable.detail.resClassHelp ?	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	Computed Variable	Computed Variable
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)	Transferred Values (e.g., from literature; transferred spatially, temporally or across scales)	Transferred Values (e.g., from literature; transferred spatially, temporally or across scales)	Map or database (e.g., wide coverage, wide availability, measured or modeled)	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable
Variable Classification Hierarchy variable.detail.vchLevel1Help ?	2. Land Surface (or Water Body) Cover, Use, Substrate, or Metric	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	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
	--Land use/land cover type or dominant habitat type	--Land use/land cover type or dominant habitat type	--Chemical (C, N, P, sediment/particulate) characteristics of ecosystem components	--Chemical (C, N, P, sediment/particulate) characteristics of ecosystem components	--Demarcation of watershed, channel, floodplain, shore, coastline, flowline	--Chemical (C, N, P, sediment/particulate) characteristics of ecosystem components	--Chemical (C, N, P, sediment/particulate) characteristics of ecosystem components	--Chemical (C, N, P, sediment/particulate) characteristics of ecosystem components
	----Other, multiple, unspecified or unclear	----Developed and urban land cover	----Nitrogen-related characteristics of ecosystem components	----Nitrogen-related characteristics of ecosystem components	----Watershed demarcation or dimension	----Nitrogen-related characteristics of ecosystem components	----Nitrogen-related characteristics of ecosystem components	----Nitrogen-related characteristics of ecosystem components
		------Perviousness	------Reactive nitrogen accumulation or attenuation by terrestrial or aquatic ecosystem components	------Reactive nitrogen accumulation or attenuation by terrestrial or aquatic ecosystem components		------Reactive nitrogen accumulation or attenuation by terrestrial or aquatic ecosystem components	------Reactive nitrogen accumulation or attenuation by terrestrial or aquatic ecosystem components	------Reactive nitrogen accumulation or attenuation by terrestrial or aquatic ecosystem components

Variable Spatial Characteristics

Name variable.detail.varNameHelp ?	Land use land cover class	Percent impervious cover	Lawn nitrogen fixation rate	Nitrogen fixation rate	Watershed boundary	Urban nitrogen fixation rate	Mean nitrogen fixation rate for Lower Guanica watershed	Mean nitrogen fixation rate for Upper Guanica watershed
Spatial Extent Area variable.detail.spExtentHelp ?	100-1000 km^2	100-1000 km^2	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	100-1000 km^2	100-1000 km^2	100-1000 km^2
Spatially Distributed? variable.detail.spDistributedHelp ?	Yes	Yes	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Yes	No	No
Observations Spatially Patterned? variable.detail.regularSpGrainHelp ?	Yes	Yes	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Yes	Not applicable	Not applicable
Spatial Grain Type variable.detail.spGrainTypeHelp ?	area, for pixel or radial feature	area, for pixel or radial feature	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	area, for pixel or radial feature	Not applicable	Not applicable
Spatial Grain Size variable.detail.spGrainSizeHelp ?	30 m x 30 m	30 m x 30 m	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	30 m x 30 m	Not applicable	Not applicable
Spatial Density variable.detail.spDensityHelp ?	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable
EnviroAtlas URL variable.detail.enviroAtlasURLHelp ?		Percent Impervious Area	Total Annual Reduced Nitrogen Deposition	Total Annual Reduced Nitrogen Deposition	The Watershed Boundary Dataset (WBD)	Total Annual Reduced Nitrogen Deposition

Variable Temporal Characteristics

Name variable.detail.varNameHelp ?	Land use land cover class	Percent impervious cover	Lawn nitrogen fixation rate	Nitrogen fixation rate	Watershed boundary	Urban nitrogen fixation rate	Mean nitrogen fixation rate for Lower Guanica watershed	Mean nitrogen fixation rate for Upper Guanica watershed
Temporal Extent variable.detail.tempExtentHelp ?	2008	2008	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	2008	1978 - 2009	1978 - 2009
Temporally Distributed? variable.detail.tempDistributedHelp ?	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not applicable	No	No
Regular Temporal Grain? variable.detail.regularTempGrainHelp ?	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable
Temporal Grain Size Value variable.detail.tempGrainSizeValHelp ?	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable
Temporal Grain Size Units variable.detail.tempGrainSizeUnitHelp ?	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable
Temporal Density variable.detail.tempDensityHelp ?	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable

Variable Values

Name variable.detail.varNameHelp ?	Land use land cover class	Percent impervious cover	Lawn nitrogen fixation rate	Nitrogen fixation rate	Watershed boundary	Urban nitrogen fixation rate	Mean nitrogen fixation rate for Lower Guanica watershed	Mean nitrogen fixation rate for Upper Guanica watershed
Units variable.detail.estUnitHelp ?	Not applicable	Not reported	Not reported	g N m^-2 yr^-1	Not applicable	g N m^-2 yr^-1	Not reported	Not reported
Min Value variable.detail.minEstHelp ?	Not applicable	Not reported	Not reported	0.00	Not applicable	Not reported	Not reported	Not reported
Max Value variable.detail.estHelp ?	Not applicable	Not reported	Not reported	33.94	Not applicable	0.01	Not reported	Not reported
Other Value Type variable.detail.natureOtherEstHelp ?	Not applicable	Not applicable	Single Observation or Parameter Value	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	Mean	Mean
Other Value variable.detail.otherEstHelp ?	Not applicable	Not reported	0.01	Not reported	Not applicable	Not reported	11.47	24.66

Variable Variability and Sensitivity

Name variable.detail.varNameHelp ?	Land use land cover class	Percent impervious cover	Lawn nitrogen fixation rate	Nitrogen fixation rate	Watershed boundary	Urban nitrogen fixation rate	Mean nitrogen fixation rate for Lower Guanica watershed	Mean nitrogen fixation rate for Upper Guanica watershed
Variability Expression Given? variable.detail.variabilityExpHelp ?	Not applicable	No	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	No	No	No
Variability Metric variable.detail.variabilityMetricHelp ?	None	None	None	None	None	None	None	None
Variability Value variable.detail.variabilityValueHelp ?	None	None	None	None	None	None	None	None
Variability Units	None	None	None	None	None	None	None	None
Resampling Used? variable.detail.bootstrappingHelp ?	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable
Variability Expression Used in Modeling? variable.detail.variabilityUsedHelp ?	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable

Variable Operational Validation (Response Variables only)

Name variable.detail.varNameHelp ?	Mean nitrogen fixation rate for Lower Guanica watershed	Mean nitrogen fixation rate for Upper Guanica watershed
Variable ID variable.detail.varIdHelp ?	9135	9134
Validated? variable.detail.resValidatedHelp ?	Not applicable	Not applicable
Validation Approach (within, between, etc.) variable.detail.validationApproachHelp ?	None	None
Validation Quality (Qual/Quant) variable.detail.validationQualityHelp ?	None	None
Validation Method (Stat/Deviance) variable.detail.validationMethodHelp ?	None	None
Validation Metric variable.detail.validationMetricHelp ?	None	None
Validation Value variable.detail.validationValHelp ?	None	None
Validation Units	None	None
Use of Measured Response Data variable.detail.measuredResponseDataHelp ?	None	None