SALVIAS-CSV,VegBIEN:,Comments

plot_area_ha,/location/area,"Brad: Area in hectares. Is there any way to store units?; Aaron: VegX plot area annotation says ""Total area of the plot in square meters."" so units are fixed"

elev_m,/location/elevation/_alt/1,Brad: Mean elevation in meters. This is a constrained decimal value; is there no place for this in VegX other than verbatimElevation? Check with Nick.

elev_max_m,"/location/elevation/_alt/2/_avg/max/_units:[default=m,to=m,to=]/value/_rangeEnd/value",

elev_min_m,"/location/elevation/_alt/2/_avg/min/_units:[default=m,to=m,to=]/value/_rangeStart/value",

elev_min_m,"/location/elevationrange/_range/from/_units:[default=m,to=m,to=]/value/_rangeStart/value",

elev_max_m,"/location/elevationrange/_range/to/_units:[default=m,to=m,to=]/value/_rangeEnd/value",

lat_decimal,/location/locationdetermination/latitude,

long_decimal,/location/locationdetermination/longitude,

pol2,"/location/locationdetermination/namedplace_id/_simplifyPath:[next=""parent_id/namedplace"",require=placename]/path/_forEach:[in:[],do=""namedplace[rank=_val]/parent_id""]/namedplace[rank=county]/placename",Brad: No pol2=countyParish

pol1,"/location/locationdetermination/namedplace_id/_simplifyPath:[next=""parent_id/namedplace"",require=placename]/path/_forEach:[in:[county,],do=""namedplace[rank=_val]/parent_id""]/namedplace[rank=stateProvince]/placename",Brad: No; pol1=stateProvince

country,"/location/locationdetermination/namedplace_id/_simplifyPath:[next=""parent_id/namedplace"",require=placename]/path/_forEach:[in:[county,stateProvince,],do=""namedplace[rank=_val]/parent_id""]/namedplace[rank=country]/placename",

major_geo,"/location/locationdetermination/namedplace_id/_simplifyPath:[next=""parent_id/namedplace"",require=placename]/path/_forEach:[in:[county,stateProvince,country,],do=""namedplace[rank=_val]/parent_id""]/namedplace[rank=continent]/placename",

plot_methodology,/location/locationevent/*_id/method/name,

project,/location/locationevent/*_id/project/projectname,

plot_code,/location/locationevent/authorlocationcode,Brad: plotCode is as-assigned by data provider; guranteed to be unique only within dataset (=project)

holdridge_life_zone,/location/locationevent/commclass/commdetermination/*_id/commconcept/*_id/*/commname,

life_zone_code,/location/locationevent/commclass/commdetermination/*_id/commconcept/commdescription,

date_start,/location/locationevent/obsstartdate/_*/date/_dateRangeStart/value/_*/date,

soil_acidity,"/location/locationevent/soilobs/acidity/_units:[default=""%"",to=]/value/_map:[""<0.05""=0,*=*]/value",

soil_base,"/location/locationevent/soilobs/basesaturation/_units:[default=""%"",to=]/value",

soil_Ca,"/location/locationevent/soilobs/calcium/_units:[default=""%"",to=]/value",

soil_C,"/location/locationevent/soilobs/carbon/_units:[default=""%"",to=]/value",

soil_cation_cap,/location/locationevent/soilobs/cationexchangecapacity,

clay_percent,"/location/locationevent/soilobs/clay/_units:[default=""%"",to=]/value",

soil_conductivity,/location/locationevent/soilobs/conductivity,

soil_Mg,"/location/locationevent/soilobs/magnesium/_units:[default=""%"",to=]/value",

soil_N,"/location/locationevent/soilobs/nitrogen/_units:[default=""%"",to=]/value",

organic_percent,"/location/locationevent/soilobs/organic/_units:[default=""%"",to=]/value",

pH,/location/locationevent/soilobs/ph,"Brad: For all these soil variables, how do we store information on method, units. Seems like an ontological structure would be more appropriate (measurementName, measurementValue, measurementUnits, measurementMethod). Same as BIEN traits table. Something to discuss."

soil_P,"/location/locationevent/soilobs/phosphorus/_units:[default=""%"",to=]/value/_map:[""<1,5""=0,*=*]/value",

soil_K,"/location/locationevent/soilobs/potassium/_units:[default=""%"",to=]/value",

sand_percent,"/location/locationevent/soilobs/sand/_units:[default=""%"",to=]/value",

silt_percent,"/location/locationevent/soilobs/silt/_units:[default=""%"",to=]/value",

soil_Na,"/location/locationevent/soilobs/sodium/_units:[default=""%"",to=]/value",

soil_texture,/location/locationevent/soilobs/texture,

PLOT_ID,/location/locationevent/sourceaccessioncode,"Brad: This is artificial internal database ID; a unique identifier within SALVIAS DB to each plot, within the table plotMetadata."

temp_c,/location/locationevent/temperature,

locality_description,/location/locationnarrative,"Brad: No; this is free text description of locality where plot was situated, same as for DwC. Not a description of vegetation. Most likely='namedPlace.placeDescription' in VB; not sure about VX, again need to ask Nick where locality descriptions live in VX"

slope_aspect,/location/slopeaspect/_compass/value,

slope_gradient,/location/slopegradient,

PLOT_ID,/location/sourceaccessioncode/_merge/2/_alt/1,"Brad: This is artificial internal database ID; a unique identifier within SALVIAS DB to each plot, within the table plotMetadata."

plot_code,/location/sourceaccessioncode/_merge/2/_alt/2,Brad: plotCode is as-assigned by data provider; guranteed to be unique only within dataset (=project)

recensused,,"Brad: This is a 0/1 value, internal to SALVIAS. 1 indicates that a  plot has >1 set of values, from different census events.; Aaron: Different censuses are distinguished in organisms data by different census_no values"