Long-eared Myotis Activity Area Data
Metadata:
- Identification_Information:
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- Citation:
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- Citation_Information:
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- Originator: John P. Hayes and David L. Waldien
- Publication_Date: Unpublished Material
- Title: Long-eared Myotis Activity Area Data
- Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: spreadsheet
- Larger_Work_Citation:
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- Citation_Information:
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- Originator: Waldien, D. L.
- Publication_Date: 1998
- Title:
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Characteristics and spatial relationships of
day-roosts and activity areas of female
long-eared myotis (Myotis evotis) in western
Oregon.
- Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: document
- Publication_Information:
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- Publication_Place: Corvallis, OR
- Publisher: Oregon State University
- Other_Citation_Details: Masters Thesis
- Description:
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- Abstract:
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Data set is a spreadsheet containing variables
that describe characteristics of activity areas of
female long-eared myotis and random areas in the
study area.
- Purpose:
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1) to identify and characterize day and night
roost structures used by female long-eared myotis
throughout the study area; 2) characterize
habitat variables associated with roosting and
foraging areas used by bats in managed forests at
the roost structure, stand, and landscape scales;
3) determine spatial relationships of roost sites
and foraging areas in forested landscapes with
diverse management conditions and objectives; and
4) develop recommendations for managing structural
features for bat roosting habitat at the stand and
landscape scales in managed forests.
- Supplemental_Information:
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Science Information System Project # 70-87
Accession # 5001374
- Time_Period_of_Content:
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- Time_Period_Information:
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- Multiple_Dates/Times:
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- Calendar_Date: 1996
- Calendar_Date: 1997
- Currentness_Reference: ground condition
- Status:
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- Progress: Complete
- Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: None planned
- Spatial_Domain:
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- Description_of_Geographic_Extent:
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western Oregon, Lane County, McKenzie River and
Willamette River Basins, Little Fall Creek, Fall
Creek, Willamette National Forest
- Bounding_Coordinates:
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- West_Bounding_Coordinate: -123.83
- East_Bounding_Coordinate: -122.5
- North_Bounding_Coordinate: 44.5
- South_Bounding_Coordinate: 43.97
- Keywords:
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- Theme:
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- Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: None
- Theme_Keyword: activity areas
- Theme_Keyword: foraging areas
- Theme_Keyword: spatial patterns
- Place:
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- Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: None
- Place_Keyword: Oregon
- Place_Keyword: Western Oregon
- Place_Keyword: west slope cascades
- Place_Keyword: coniferous forests
- Place_Keyword: McKenzie River Basin
- Place_Keyword: Willamette River Basin
- Place_Keyword: Lane County
- Place_Keyword: Little Fall Creek
- Place_Keyword: Fall Creek
- Place_Keyword: Willamette National Forest
- Place_Keyword: BLM Eugene District
- Temporal:
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- Temporal_Keyword_Thesaurus: None
- Temporal_Keyword: summer
- Taxonomy:
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- Taxonomic_Keywords: bats
- Taxonomic_Keywords: mammals
- Taxonomy:
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- Taxonomic_Coverage:
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- Specific_Taxonomic_Information:
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- Kingdom: Animalia
- Division-Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Mammalia
- Order: Chiroptera
- Family: Vespertilionidea
- Genus: Myotis
- Species: evotis
- Applicable_Common_Names: long-eared myotis
- Access_Constraints:
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Not available until final publication of the data
sets or by permission of researchers.
- Use_Constraints: None
- Point_of_Contact:
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- Contact_Information:
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- Contact_Organization_Primary:
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- Contact_Organization: Cooperative Forest Ecosystem Research (CFER)
- Contact_Person: John Hayes
- Contact_Address:
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- Address_Type: mailing and physical address
- Address: Oregon State University
- Address: Department of Forest Science
- Address: 321 Richardson Hall
- City: Corvallis
- State_or_Province: Oregon
- Postal_Code: 97331
- Contact_Voice_Telephone: (541) 737-6589
- Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: John.Hayes@orst.edu
- Native_Data_Set_Environment: Microsoft Excel 97 spreadsheet
- Cross_Reference:
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- Citation_Information:
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- Originator: T.H. Kunz and A. Kurta
- Publication_Date: 1988
- Title: Capture Methods and holding devices
- Other_Citation_Details: pages 1-29
- Larger_Work_Citation:
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- Citation_Information:
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- Originator: T.H. Kunz (editor)
- Publication_Date: 1988
- Title:
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Ecological and behavioral methods for the study of
bats
- Publication_Information:
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- Publication_Place: Washington, D.C.
- Publisher: Smithsonian Institute Press
- Other_Citation_Details: 533 pp
- Cross_Reference:
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- Citation_Information:
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- Originator: David L. Waldien and John P. Hayes
- Publication_Date: 1999
- Title:
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A technique for capturing bats using hand-held
mist nets
- Series_Information:
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- Series_Name: Wildlife Society Bulletin
- Issue_Identification: 27:197-200
- Cross_Reference:
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- Citation_Information:
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- Originator: E.L.P. Anthony
- Publication_Date: 1998
- Title: Age Determination in bats
- Other_Citation_Details: pages 47-58
- Larger_Work_Citation:
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- Citation_Information:
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- Originator: T.H. Kunz (editor)
- Publication_Date: 1988
- Title:
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Ecological and behavioral methods for the study of
bats
- Publication_Information:
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- Publication_Place: Washington, D.C.
- Publisher: Smithsonian Institute Press
- Other_Citation_Details: 533 pp
- Cross_Reference:
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- Citation_Information:
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- Originator: P.A. Racey
- Publication_Date: 1988
- Title: Reproductive assessment in bats
- Other_Citation_Details: pages 31-46
- Larger_Work_Citation:
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- Citation_Information:
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- Originator: T.H. Kunz (editor)
- Publication_Date: 1988
- Title:
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Ecological and behavioral methods for the study of
bats
- Publication_Information:
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- Publication_Place: Washington, D.C.
- Publisher: Smithsonian Institute Press
- Other_Citation_Details: 533 pp
- Analytical_Tool:
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- Analytical_Tool_Description:
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XYLOG-This program triangulates bearings and
provides locations with an error polygon.
- Tool_Access_Information:
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- Tool_Access_Instructions: Contact the NSFW service for publishing number.
- Tool_Citation:
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- Citation_Information:
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- Originator: W.E. Dodge and A.J. Steiner
- Publication_Date: 1986
- Title:
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XYLOG: A computer program for the field processing
locations of radio-tagged wildlife
- Series_Information:
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- Series_Name:
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Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Department of the
Interior, Fish and Wildlife Technical Report
- Issue_Identification: 4
- Other_Citation_Details: page 22
- Analytical_Tool_Description:
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CALHOME-This program takes locations of an animal
and computes it's home range.
- Tool_Access_Information:
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- Tool_Access_Instructions:
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http://nhsbig.inhs.uiuc.edu/wes/calhome_info.html
or contact author of the program.
- Tool_Citation:
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- Citation_Information:
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- Originator: J.G. Kie, J.A. Baldwin, and C.J. Evans
- Publication_Date: 1996
- Title:
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CALHOME: a program for estimating animal home
ranges
- Series_Information:
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- Series_Name: Wildlife Society Bulletin
- Issue_Identification: 24
- Other_Citation_Details: pages 342 - 344
- Data_Quality_Information:
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- Attribute_Accuracy:
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- Attribute_Accuracy_Report: Verified spreadsheets with data sheets
- Logical_Consistency_Report: does not apply
- Completeness_Report: see methods
- Lineage:
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- Methodology:
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- Methodology_Type: Field
- Methodology_Identifier:
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- Methodology_Keyword_Thesaurus: None
- Methodology_Description:
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Mist nets, harp traps, hoop nets (Kunz and Kurta
1988), and H-nets were used (Waldien and Hayes
submitted) to capture bats over ponds and streams
and at bridges used as night-roosts from May
through August in 1996 and June through August in
1997. Sites were selected based on equipment
limitations (e.g., size of mist nets) and access
to the site by road or trail with most sites being
trapped more than once to maximize opportunities
to capture female long-eared myotis. Capture
periods generally were initiated at sunset and
lasted three to four hours depending on logistics
and weather conditions. Captured bats were
identified to species, sex, relative age (adult or
juvenile) based on the degree of ossification in
the epiphyseal growth plates (Anthony 1988), and
reproductive condition (Racey 1988). Radio
transmitters (0.51 g) were attatched (model LB2,
Holohil Systems Ltd.,112 John Cavanagh Road, Carp,
Ontario, KOA 1L0, Canada) to 21 female and 3 male
long-eared myotis during June, July, and August
1996 and 1997. The transmitters attached to bats
exceeding 6.5g in weight that were not in a late
stage of pregnancy. Transmitters weighed 6.7-7.8%
of body mass. A small patch of fur was trimmed
between the scapula and the transmitter was
attached to the bat using Skin-Bond (Smith and
Nephew United, Inc., Largo, FL) and held the
transmitters firmly in place for 1-2 minutes. The
bats were placed in a container for 20-30 minutes
to allow the adhesive to set and released the bat
at the capture site. Wildlife Materials TRX-1000S
(Wildlife Materials, Inc.; Carbondale, Illinois)
and Telonics TR-2 (Telonics, Telemetry-Electronic
Consultants; Mesa, Arizona) receivers were used,
and hand-held 4- and 6-element yagi antennas to
track bats to roosts on a daily basis. The
structures located were used for day-roosts by
tracking instrumented bats to these sites. A
structure was verified as a roost only if I
confirmed that the instrumented bat had left the
roost. This was accomplished by monitoring the
radio signal and roosts at dusk. This protocol
may have eliminated some structures used as
day-roosts where a bat shed its transmitter, but
minimized misclassification of structures where
transmitters had been shed by bats flying over a
structure or at night-roosts. Day-roosts were
located on U.S.G.S. topographic maps and with a
geographical positioning system (GPS;
TrimbleNavigation, Ltd., Sunnyvale, California).
Each roost was classified by female long-eared
myotis into one of three categories: dead or
defective conifer trees (completely dead trees and
live trees with structural defects such as a dead
top), conifer stumps (structures less than 3 m in
height created by a conifer tree < 100 years old
being cut), and all other roost structures (i.e.,
live conifers with no structural defects, logs,
and hardwoods). Conifer trees were classified
according to stage of decay (see below). A stand
defined to be an area of similar vegetative
composition and structure. Topographic features
(e.g., ridges and stream) were used to define
boundaries of stands in areas with relatively
large forest tracts of similar age or structure;
resulting stand boundaries generally were
consistent with management boundaries. A 1x1 cm
grid was used with a random numbers table to
establish 6 points in each stand where a dead or
defective conifer tree used as roosts were
located. these points were navigated with a
U.S.G.S. topographic map and compass, and selected
the dead or defective conifer tree nearest to the
random point. There were a total of 24 randomly
available dead or defective conifer trees
identified. For dead or defective conifer trees,
they were selected as random trees in decay
classes 1-3. Snags located in young-open or
young-closed conditions were excluded because they
were used infrequently and differed in many
respects from the majority of the snags observed,
that were used by female long-eared myotis. Data
were collected on characteristics of roosts and
randomly selected structures at multiple spatial
scales. For dead or defective conifer trees, data
were collected on characteristics of structures
(structure-scale) and habitat within 5-, 10-, 20-,
and 50-meter radius concentric plots (plot-scale).
Data were collected to desrcibe the habitat with
in activity areas, and their spatial relationships
with other features in the landscape.
- Methodology_Citation:
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- Citation_Information:
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- Originator: T.H. Kunz (editor)
- Publication_Date: 1988
- Title:
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Ecological and behavioral methods for the study of
bats
- Publication_Information:
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- Publication_Place: Washington, D.C.
- Publisher: Smithsonian Institute Press
- Other_Citation_Details: 533 pp
- Process_Step:
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- Process_Description:
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Triangulation of simultaneous bearings was
accomplished using XYLOG (Dodge and Steiner 1986).
CALHOME (Kie et al. 1996) was used to calculate
95% utilization distributions (activity areas) for
bats that were active for at least 4 hr
(approximately 50% of the night) and were able to
obtain locations for >=50% of the time the bat was
active. Least squares were used for
cross-validation with a 0.75h smoothing factor to
calculate activity areas. A 50x50 cell grid was
used because preliminary examination of the data
suggested that the data may have a bimodal
distribution (Kie et al. 1996).
- Process_Date: 1998
- Spatial_Data_Organization_Information:
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- Indirect_Spatial_Reference: McKenzie River and Fall Creek basins
- Entity_and_Attribute_Information:
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- Detailed_Description:
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- Entity_Type:
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- Entity_Type_Label: Activity
- Entity_Type_Definition:
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Data associated with activity areas used by female long-eared myotis and random areas.
- Entity_Type_Definition_Source: software generated
- Attribute:
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- Attribute_Label: LAND
- Attribute_Definition:
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general description of the forest in the area surrounding the capture site
- Attribute_Definition_Source: user-defined
- Attribute_Domain_Values:
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- Enumerated_Domain:
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- Enumerated_Domain_Value: 1
- Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: old
- Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: user-defined
- Enumerated_Domain_Value: 2
- Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: young
- Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: user-defined
- Attribute:
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- Attribute_Label: AREA
- Attribute_Definition: capture site
- Attribute_Definition_Source: user-defined
- Attribute_Domain_Values:
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- Enumerated_Domain:
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- Enumerated_Domain_Value: 1
- Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: 1828 bridge in Fall Creek
- Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: user-defined
- Enumerated_Domain_Value: 2
- Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: 6000 bridge in Little Fall Creek
- Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: user-defined
- Enumerated_Domain_Value: 3
- Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Wader pond
- Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: user-defined
- Enumerated_Domain_Value: 4
- Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Coopers pond
- Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: user-defined
- Attribute:
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- Attribute_Label: USE
- Attribute_Definition: Identifies the structure as used or random
- Attribute_Definition_Source: user-defined
- Attribute_Domain_Values:
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- Enumerated_Domain:
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- Enumerated_Domain_Value: 0
- Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: random
- Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: user-defined
- Enumerated_Domain_Value: 1
- Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: used
- Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: user-defined
- Attribute:
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- Attribute_Label: DSTCAP
- Attribute_Definition: distance to capture
- Attribute_Definition_Source: measured
- Attribute_Domain_Values:
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- Range_Domain:
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- Range_Domain_Minimum: 0
- Range_Domain_Maximum: no limit
- Attribute_Units_of_Measure: meters
- Attribute:
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- Attribute_Label: DSTWTR
- Attribute_Definition: distance to body of water from which the bat can drink
- Attribute_Definition_Source: measured
- Attribute_Domain_Values:
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- Range_Domain:
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- Range_Domain_Minimum: 0
- Range_Domain_Maximum: no limit
- Attribute_Units_of_Measure: meters
- Attribute:
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- Attribute_Label: PCTYO
- Attribute_Definition:
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percent of the activity or random area with forest 0 to 12 years old
- Attribute_Definition_Source: measured
- Attribute_Domain_Values:
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- Range_Domain:
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- Range_Domain_Minimum: 0
- Range_Domain_Maximum: 100
- Attribute_Units_of_Measure: percent
- Attribute:
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- Attribute_Label: PCTYC
- Attribute_Definition:
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percent of the activity or random area with forest 13 to 35 years old
- Attribute_Definition_Source: user-defined
- Attribute_Domain_Values:
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- Range_Domain:
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- Range_Domain_Minimum: 0
- Range_Domain_Maximum: 100
- Attribute_Units_of_Measure: percent
- Attribute:
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- Attribute_Label: PCTMM
- Attribute_Definition:
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percent of the activity or random area with forest 36 to 80 years old
- Attribute_Definition_Source: measured
- Attribute_Domain_Values:
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- Range_Domain:
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- Range_Domain_Minimum: 0
- Range_Domain_Maximum: 100
- Attribute_Units_of_Measure: percent
- Attribute:
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- Attribute_Label: PCTOLD
- Attribute_Definition:
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percent of the activity or random area with forest >80 years old
- Attribute_Definition_Source: measured
- Attribute_Domain_Values:
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- Range_Domain:
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- Range_Domain_Minimum: 0
- Range_Domain_Maximum: 100
- Attribute_Units_of_Measure: percent
- Attribute:
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- Attribute_Label: PCTRIP
- Attribute_Definition:
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percent of the activity or random area with in 20m of small and intermittent sized streams, 50m of pond and medium sized streams, and 100m of large stream
- Attribute_Definition_Source: measured
- Attribute_Domain_Values:
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- Range_Domain:
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- Range_Domain_Minimum: 0
- Range_Domain_Maximum: 100
- Attribute_Units_of_Measure: percent
- Metadata_Reference_Information:
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- Metadata_Date: 20000322
- Metadata_Review_Date: 20000329
- Metadata_Contact:
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- Contact_Information:
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- Contact_Person_Primary:
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- Contact_Person: George Lienkaemper
- Contact_Organization:
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US Geological Survey Forest and Rangeland
Ecosystem Science Center (FRESC)
- Contact_Position: FRESC Metadata Coordinator
- Contact_Address:
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- Address_Type: Mailing and Physical Address
- Address: 3200 SW Jefferson Way
- City: Corvallis
- State_or_Province: Oregon
- Postal_Code: 97331
- Contact_Voice_Telephone: 541-750-7343
- Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: geo@fsl.orst.edu
- Hours_of_Service: 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Monday Through Friday
- Metadata_Standard_Name:
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NBII Content Standard for National Biological
Information Infrastructure Metadata
- Metadata_Standard_Version: December 1995
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