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EM Identity and Description

EM ID variable.detail.emIdHelp ?	EM-69
Document Author variable.detail.emDocumentAuthorHelp ?	Lavorel, S., Grigulis, K., Lamarque, P., Colace, M-P, Garden, D., Girel, J., Pellet, G., and Douzet, R.
Document Year variable.detail.emDocumentYearHelp ?	2011

Variable General Info

Name variable.detail.varNameHelp ?	Community-weighted mean leaf dry matter content	Community-weighted mean leaf phosphorus concentration	Nitrogen nutrition index	Soil water holding capacity
Variable ID variable.detail.varIdHelp ?	920	927	2533	2532
Symbol variable.detail.varSymbolHelp ?	CWM_LDMC	CWM_LPC	NNI	WHC
Qualitative-Quantitative variable.detail.continuousCategoricalHelp ?	Quantitative (Cardinal Only)	Quantitative (Cardinal Only)	Quantitative (Cardinal Only)	Quantitative (Cardinal Only)
Cardinal-Ordinal variable.detail.cardinalOrdinalHelp ?	Cardinal	Cardinal	Cardinal	Cardinal
Units variable.detail.varUnitsHelp ?	mg/g	mg/g	%	%

Variable Typology

Name variable.detail.varNameHelp ?	Community-weighted mean leaf dry matter content	Community-weighted mean leaf phosphorus concentration	Nitrogen nutrition index	Soil water holding capacity
Predictor-Intermediate-Response variable.detail.displayVariableTypeHelp ?	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
Response Variable Type variable.detail.resClassHelp ?	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable
Data Source/Type variable.detail.dataTypeHelp ?	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable
Variable Classification Hierarchy variable.detail.vchLevel1Help ?	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	5. Ecosystem Attributes and Potential Supply of Ecosystem Goods and Services
	--Biomass, litter or residue characteristics	--Chemical (C, N, P, sediment/particulate) characteristics of ecosystem components	--Chemical (C, N, P, sediment/particulate) characteristics of ecosystem components	--Physical/chemical characteristics of nonliving ecosystem components
	----Mass or quantity of biomass, litter or residue	----Phosphorus-related characteristics of ecosystem components	----Nitrogen-related characteristics of ecosystem components	----Physical/chemical characteristics of soils, substrates, rocks
		------Phosphorus presence (in terrestrial ecosystem components)	------Nitrogen presence (in terrestrial ecosystem components)	------Soil hydrologic characteristics

Variable Spatial Characteristics

Name variable.detail.varNameHelp ?	Community-weighted mean leaf dry matter content	Community-weighted mean leaf phosphorus concentration	Nitrogen nutrition index	Soil water holding capacity
Spatial Extent Area variable.detail.spExtentHelp ?	10-100 km^2	10-100 km^2	10-100 km^2	10-100 km^2
Spatially Distributed? variable.detail.spDistributedHelp ?	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Observations Spatially Patterned? variable.detail.regularSpGrainHelp ?	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
Spatial Grain Size variable.detail.spGrainSizeHelp ?	20 m x 20 m	20 m x 20 m	20 m x 20 m	20 m x 20 m
Spatial Density variable.detail.spDensityHelp ?	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable
EnviroAtlas URL variable.detail.enviroAtlasURLHelp ?

Variable Temporal Characteristics

Name variable.detail.varNameHelp ?	Community-weighted mean leaf dry matter content	Community-weighted mean leaf phosphorus concentration	Nitrogen nutrition index	Soil water holding capacity
Temporal Extent variable.detail.tempExtentHelp ?	2007-2009	2007-2009	2007-2009	2007-2009
Temporally Distributed? variable.detail.tempDistributedHelp ?	Not applicable	Not applicable	No	No
Regular Temporal Grain? variable.detail.regularTempGrainHelp ?	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable
Temporal Grain Size Value variable.detail.tempGrainSizeValHelp ?	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable
Temporal Grain Size Units variable.detail.tempGrainSizeUnitHelp ?	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable
Temporal Density variable.detail.tempDensityHelp ?	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable

Variable Values

Name variable.detail.varNameHelp ?	Community-weighted mean leaf dry matter content	Community-weighted mean leaf phosphorus concentration	Nitrogen nutrition index	Soil water holding capacity
Units variable.detail.estUnitHelp ?	mg/g	mg/g	%	%
Min Value variable.detail.minEstHelp ?	271	9.34	50.62	6
Max Value variable.detail.estHelp ?	343	25.29	72.67	24
Other Value Type variable.detail.natureOtherEstHelp ?	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable
Other Value variable.detail.otherEstHelp ?	Not reported	Not reported	Not reported	Not reported

Variable Variability and Sensitivity

Name variable.detail.varNameHelp ?	Community-weighted mean leaf dry matter content	Community-weighted mean leaf phosphorus concentration	Nitrogen nutrition index	Soil water holding capacity
Variability Expression Given? variable.detail.variabilityExpHelp ?	No	No	No	No
Variability Metric variable.detail.variabilityMetricHelp ?	None	None	None	None
Variability Value variable.detail.variabilityValueHelp ?	None	None	None	None
Variability Units	None	None	None	None
Resampling Used? variable.detail.bootstrappingHelp ?	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable
Variability Expression Used in Modeling? variable.detail.variabilityUsedHelp ?	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

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EcoService Models Library (ESML)

Variables Details

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