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EM Identity and Description

EM ID variable.detail.emIdHelp ?	EM-70
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 ?	Altitude	Combination of legacy and current land use	Coefficient on altitude for soil water holding capacity	Coefficient on combination of legacy and current land use for soil water holding capacity	Coefficient on nitrogen nutrition index for relative species diversity	Nitrogen nutrition index	Soil water holding capacity	Relative species diversity (modeled)	Relative species diversity (observed)
Variable ID variable.detail.varIdHelp ?	2535	2534	3259	3258	3260	934	2536	931	937
Symbol variable.detail.varSymbolHelp ?	Not reported	LUT	Not reported	Not reported	Not reported	NNI	WHC	Not reported	Not reported
Qualitative-Quantitative variable.detail.continuousCategoricalHelp ?	Quantitative (Cardinal Only)	Qualitative (Class, Rating or Ranking)	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	Non-Ordinal	Cardinal	Cardinal	Cardinal	Cardinal	Cardinal	Cardinal	Cardinal
Units variable.detail.varUnitsHelp ?	m	Not applicable	unitless	unitless	unitless	%	%	%	%

Variable Typology

Name variable.detail.varNameHelp ?	Altitude	Combination of legacy and current land use	Coefficient on altitude for soil water holding capacity	Coefficient on combination of legacy and current land use for soil water holding capacity	Coefficient on nitrogen nutrition index for relative species diversity	Nitrogen nutrition index	Soil water holding capacity	Relative species diversity (modeled)	Relative species diversity (observed)
Predictor-Intermediate-Response variable.detail.displayVariableTypeHelp ?	Predictor	Predictor	Predictor	Predictor	Predictor	Intermediate (Computed) Variable	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	Not applicable
Response Variable Type variable.detail.resClassHelp ?	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	Computed Variable	Observed 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)	Statistically estimated (use for statistically estimated EMs only)	Statistically estimated (use for statistically estimated EMs only)	Statistically estimated (use for statistically estimated EMs only)	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	Local Field/Lab Data (e.g., particular to the EM study)
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	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	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
	--Geographic position, horizontal or vertical	--Land use/land cover type or dominant habitat type	--Geographic position, horizontal or vertical	--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	--Physical/chemical characteristics of nonliving ecosystem components	--Biological characteristics, processes or requirements of living ecosystem components	--Biological characteristics, processes or requirements of living ecosystem components
	----Elevation, altitude, bathymetry	----Other, multiple, unspecified or unclear	----Elevation, altitude, bathymetry	----Other, multiple, unspecified or unclear	----Nitrogen-related characteristics of ecosystem components	----Nitrogen-related characteristics of ecosystem components	----Physical/chemical characteristics of soils, substrates, rocks	----Biological characteristics, processes or requirements of flora and fungi	----Biological characteristics, processes or requirements of flora and fungi
					------Nitrogen presence (in terrestrial ecosystem components)	------Nitrogen presence (in terrestrial ecosystem components)	------Soil hydrologic characteristics	------Herbaceous plants (grasses, forbs)	------Herbaceous plants (grasses, forbs)

Variable Spatial Characteristics

Name variable.detail.varNameHelp ?	Altitude	Combination of legacy and current land use	Coefficient on altitude for soil water holding capacity	Coefficient on combination of legacy and current land use for soil water holding capacity	Coefficient on nitrogen nutrition index for relative species diversity	Nitrogen nutrition index	Soil water holding capacity	Relative species diversity (modeled)	Relative species diversity (observed)
Spatial Extent Area variable.detail.spExtentHelp ?	10-100 km^2	10-100 km^2	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	10-100 km^2	10-100 km^2	10-100 km^2	10-100 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	Yes	Yes	Yes
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	Yes	Yes	No
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	area, for pixel or radial feature	area, for pixel or radial feature	Not applicable
Spatial Grain Size variable.detail.spGrainSizeHelp ?	20 m x 20 m	20 m x 20 m	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	20 m x 20 m	20 m x 20 m	20 m x 20 m	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	57 variable observations across 13 km^2
EnviroAtlas URL variable.detail.enviroAtlasURLHelp ?

Variable Temporal Characteristics

Name variable.detail.varNameHelp ?	Altitude	Combination of legacy and current land use	Coefficient on altitude for soil water holding capacity	Coefficient on combination of legacy and current land use for soil water holding capacity	Coefficient on nitrogen nutrition index for relative species diversity	Nitrogen nutrition index	Soil water holding capacity	Relative species diversity (modeled)	Relative species diversity (observed)
Temporal Extent variable.detail.tempExtentHelp ?	Not reported	1810-2010	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	2007-2009	2007-2009	Not reported	Not reported
Temporally Distributed? variable.detail.tempDistributedHelp ?	No	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	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	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	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	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	Not applicable

Variable Values

Name variable.detail.varNameHelp ?	Altitude	Combination of legacy and current land use	Coefficient on altitude for soil water holding capacity	Coefficient on combination of legacy and current land use for soil water holding capacity	Coefficient on nitrogen nutrition index for relative species diversity	Nitrogen nutrition index	Soil water holding capacity	Relative species diversity (modeled)	Relative species diversity (observed)
Units variable.detail.estUnitHelp ?	m	Not applicable	Not reported	Not reported	Not reported	%	Not reported	unitless	Not reported
Min Value variable.detail.minEstHelp ?	1552	Not applicable	Not reported	Not reported	Not reported	50.62	Not reported	0	Not reported
Max Value variable.detail.estHelp ?	2442	Not applicable	Not reported	Not reported	Not reported	72.67	Not reported	79	Not reported
Other Value Type variable.detail.natureOtherEstHelp ?	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable
Other Value variable.detail.otherEstHelp ?	Not reported	Not applicable	Not reported	Not reported	Not reported	Not reported	Not reported	Not reported	Not reported

Variable Variability and Sensitivity

Name variable.detail.varNameHelp ?	Altitude	Combination of legacy and current land use	Coefficient on altitude for soil water holding capacity	Coefficient on combination of legacy and current land use for soil water holding capacity	Coefficient on nitrogen nutrition index for relative species diversity	Nitrogen nutrition index	Soil water holding capacity	Relative species diversity (modeled)	Relative species diversity (observed)
Variability Expression Given? variable.detail.variabilityExpHelp ?	No	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	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 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	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	Not applicable

Variable Operational Validation (Response Variables only)

Name

Relative species diversity (modeled)

Relative species diversity (observed)

Variable ID

931

937

Validated?

Not applicable

Validation Approach (within, between, etc.)

None

Validation Quality (Qual/Quant)

None

Validation Method (Stat/Deviance)

None

Validation Metric

None

Validation Value

None

Validation Units

None

Use of Measured Response Data

None

Statistical estimation

US EPA

EcoService Models Library (ESML)

Variables Details

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