Entity Description

Data Set Citation
Lauenroth W, NCEAS 9620: Adler: Coexistence in a changing environment: Evaluating the role of climatic variability in semiarid plant communities, Adler P, and National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis.Mapped plant community time series, Hays, KS, 1932-1972.
adler.3.19 (http://knb.ecoinformatics.org/knb/metacat/adler.3.19/knb).
Name:Records of all individual plants, Hays, KS
Online Distribution Info:
Download File: allrecords.csv
Physical Structure Description:
Object Name:allrecords.csv
Size:10790549 byte
Text Format:
Number of Header Lines:1
Record Delimiter:#x0A
Maximum Record Length:column
Simple Delimited:
Field Delimeter:,
Number Of Records:164143
Attribute(s) Info:
Attribute Description
(label and definition)
Type of ValueMeasurement Type and Domain
plotyear Plot and year code - Name of the plot (quadrat) and the year if the observation (last 2 digits). For example, "e1q1-137" refers to quadrat e1q1-1 in year 1937.character  
ordinal
DefPlot and year
         
ID Record identification number - Identification of each record (an individual plygon in the GIS) within a given quadrat in a given year.character  
nominal
DefRecord identification
         
species species name - Name of the cover category or the Latin name of the plant species (genus, species).character  
nominal
Defspecies name
         
area basal cover - Basal cover in cm^2. Basal cover is the part of the plant in contact with the soil surface.float  
ratio
UnitsquareCentimeters
Precision0.00000001
Typereal
         
x x-coordinate - Location of center-point of record in the East-West direction within the quadratfloat  
ratio
Unitcentimeter
Precision0.00000001
Typereal
         
y y-coordinate - Location of the centerpoint of the record within the plot in the North-South direction.float  
ratio
Unitcentimeter
Precision0.00000001
Typereal