Method Step

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<methodStep>
<description>
<para>This method step describes provenance-based metadata as specified in the LTER EML Best Practices.</para>
<para>This provenance metadata does not contain entity specific information.</para>
</description>
<dataSource>
<title>Soil extracellular enzyme activities in plots dominated by trees that associate with arbuscular mycorrhizal or ectomycorrhizal fungi in the N fertilized and reference watershed at the Bear Brook Watershed in Maine, USA.</title>
<creator>
      <individualName>
        <givenName>Joseph</givenName>
        <givenName>E</givenName>
        <surName>Carrara</surName>
      </individualName>
      <organizationName>West Virginia University</organizationName>
      <electronicMailAddress>jocarrara@mix.wvu.edu</electronicMailAddress>
      <userId directory="https://orcid.org">https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0597-1175</userId>
    </creator>
<creator>
      <individualName>
        <givenName>Christopher</givenName>
        <givenName>A</givenName>
        <surName>Walter</surName>
      </individualName>
      <organizationName>West Virginia University</organizationName>
      <electronicMailAddress>cwalte12@mail.wvu.edu</electronicMailAddress>
    </creator>
<creator>
      <individualName>
        <givenName>Zachary</givenName>
        <givenName>B</givenName>
        <surName>Freedman</surName>
      </individualName>
      <organizationName>Department of Soil Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison</organizationName>
      <electronicMailAddress>zachary.freedman@mail.wvu.edu</electronicMailAddress>
    </creator>
<creator>
      <individualName>
        <givenName>Ashley</givenName>
        <givenName>N</givenName>
        <surName>Hostetler</surName>
      </individualName>
      <organizationName>West Virginia University</organizationName>
      <electronicMailAddress>ahende11@mix.wvu.edu</electronicMailAddress>
    </creator>
<creator>
      <individualName>
        <givenName>Jennifer</givenName>
        <givenName>S</givenName>
        <surName>Hawkins</surName>
      </individualName>
      <organizationName>West Virginia University</organizationName>
      <electronicMailAddress>Jennifer.Hawkins@mail.wvu.edu</electronicMailAddress>
    </creator>
<creator>
      <individualName>
        <givenName>Ivan</givenName>
        <givenName>J</givenName>
        <surName>Fernandez</surName>
      </individualName>
      <organizationName>University of Maine, School of Forest Resources and Climate Change Institute</organizationName>
      <electronicMailAddress>ivanjf@maine.edu</electronicMailAddress>
    </creator>
<creator>
      <individualName>
        <givenName>Edward</givenName>
        <givenName>R</givenName>
        <surName>Brzostek</surName>
      </individualName>
      <organizationName>West Virginia University</organizationName>
      <electronicMailAddress>erbrzostek@mix.wvu.edu</electronicMailAddress>
    </creator>
<distribution>
<online>
<onlineDescription>This online link references an EML document that describes data used in the creation of this derivative data package.</onlineDescription>
<url function="information">https://pasta-s.lternet.edu/package/metadata/eml/edi/122/1</url>
</online>
</distribution>
<contact>
      <individualName>
        <givenName>Joseph</givenName>
        <givenName>E</givenName>
        <surName>Carrara</surName>
      </individualName>
      <organizationName>West Virginia University</organizationName>
      <electronicMailAddress>jocarrara@mix.wvu.edu</electronicMailAddress>
      <userId directory="https://orcid.org">https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0597-1175</userId>
    </contact>
</dataSource>
</methodStep>