Diss_Table

• Label: Murchie disseration table
• Definition: Data digitized from Tables 16-34 of William Murchie's dissertation, published in 1954.
• Type: Nominal
• Missing values: None specified

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Reference

• Label: Earthworm record reference
• Definition: Smith and Green 1915, Hague 1923, Murchie 1954
• Type: Nominal
• Missing values: None specified

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Species

• Label: Earthworm species
• Definition: earthworm species identified as present by authors
• Type: Nominal
• Missing values: None specified

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Sp_Classification

• Label: Species habitat preference
• Definition: Species habitat preference
• Type: Nominal
• Missing values: None specified

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Sp_FuncGroup

• Label: Ecological/functional group
• Definition: Ecological/functional group assigned to each species according to feeding and burrowing ecology
• Type: Nominal
• Missing values: None specified

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State

• Label: State
• Definition: State
• Type: Nominal
• Missing values: None specified

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County

• Label: County within Michigan
• Definition: County within Michigan
• Type: Nominal
• Missing values: None specified

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Locality

• Label: Locality
• Definition: Locality
• Type: Nominal
• Missing values: None specified

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Township

• Label: Township
• Definition: Provides location in accordance with state plane
• Type: Nominal
• Missing values: None specified

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Range

• Label: Range
• Definition: Provides location in accordance with state plane
• Type: Nominal
• Missing values: None specified

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Section

• Label: Section
• Definition: Provides location in accordance with state plane
• Type: Nominal
• Missing values: None specified

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Genera

• Label: Number of earthworm genera present at site
• Definition: Number of earthworm genera present at site
• Type: Nominal
• Missing values: None specified

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Species_Richness

• Label: Species Richness
• Definition: Number of earthworm species present at site
• Type: Nominal
• Missing values: None specified

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Relative_Abundance

• Label: Relative Abudance
• Definition: Qualitative measure of earthworm abundance: absent, few, common, abundant
• Type: Nominal
• Missing values: None specified

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Pct_Sand

• Label: Percent Sand
• Definition: Soil texture measure - percent sand
• Type: Nominal
• Missing values: None specified

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Pct_Silt

• Label: Percent Silt
• Definition: Soil texture measure - percent silt
• Type: Nominal
• Missing values: None specified

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Pct_clay

• Label: Percent clay
• Definition: Soil texture measure - percent clay
• Type: Nominal
• Missing values: None specified

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pH

• Label: Soil pH
• Definition: Soil pH
• Type: Nominal
• Missing values: None specified

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H2O_Capacity

• Label: Soil moisture
• Definition: Soil moisture
• Type: Nominal
• Missing values: None specified

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Pct_OrgC

• Label: Percent Organic C in Soil
• Definition: Percent Organic C in Soil
• Type: Nominal
• Missing values: None specified

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Vegetation

• Label: Aboveground vegetation
• Definition: Hardwood, grass, beech, spruce, pine, shrubland
• Type: Nominal
• Missing values: None specified

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Genera_Species

• Label: Earthworm species-specific abundance
• Definition: Coded species abundance for 14 earthworm species
• Type: Code list
• Codes:
  • 4 = earthworms abundant; 5+
  • 3 = earthworms common; 3 - 5
  • 2 = earthworms few; 1 - 3
  • 1 = earthworms rare; 1 - 3
  • x = literature record only
• Missing values: None specified