This file contains meta-data for file 
<1973-01 Webber IBP Microtopographic Grid Vascular Plants 1973 Barrow.txt>.

Contains data collected on species and land cover and abundance from Webber's
IBP microtopographic grid collected in 1973 at Barrow, Alaska.

GENERAL INFORMATION
PI/DATA CONTACT= Webber, Patrick J (MSU)/ Tweedie, Craig E
FUNDING SOURCE AWARD # = NSF OPP 9906692
DATA COVERAGE = START: 19730601; STOP: 20010831 UTC
PLATFORM/SITE = Barrow, Alaska (71o19'N 156o37'W);
INSTRUMENT = None.
DATA VERSION = 1.0 (25 January 2002), 
               PRELIMINARY [likely to contain errors]

CONTACT INFORMATION
Craig E. Tweedie
100 North Kedzie Hall
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI  48824-1031
Voice: 517 355-1285
Fax:   517 432-2150
Email: tweedie@msu.edu


DATA COLLECTION
Data are percentage cover of species in each grid cell.

Species nomenclature follows:

Hulten, E.  1968.  Flora of Alaska and Neighboring Territories A 
Manual of the Vascular Plants.  Stand University Press.  
Stanford, California  pp. 1008. 


META-DATA FORMAT
The following prefixes have been used to designate data type.
   str - indicates string (text) data
   dtm - indicates date time data
   num - indicates numeric data
   mem - indicates memo data

FIELD DESCRIPTIONS for:
<1973-01 Webber IBP Microtopographic Grid Vascular Plants 1973 Barrow.txt>

strGridCell	- Grid cell number
numX1Point	- Lowest X grid axis peg distance from origin of grid
numX2Point	- Highest X grid axis peg distance from origin of grid
numY1Point	- Lowest Y grid axis peg distance from origin of grid
numY2Point	- Highest Y grid axis peg distance from origin of grid
...Remaining field names correspond to species codes given in:
<1973-01 Webber IBP Microtopographic Grid Species Info Barrow.txt>


NOTE
John Batty and Skip Walker collected 1973 data. Craig Tweedie performed data entry, quality checking and management.