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>Delta smelt (Hypomesus transpacificus) life cycle model input data used in the article "Combining multiple data sources with different biases in state-space models for population dynamics" appearing in Ecology and Evolution Volume13, Issue6, June 2023, e10154 with DOI:10.1002/ece3.10154.</title>
<creator>
         <organizationName>United States Fish and Wildlife Service</organizationName>
      </creator>
<creator>
         <individualName>
            <givenName>Leo</givenName>
            <surName>Polansky</surName>
         </individualName>
         <organizationName>United States Fish and Wildlife Service</organizationName>
         <electronicMailAddress>leo_polansky@fws.gov</electronicMailAddress>
         <userId directory="https://orcid.org">0000-0003-2738-8079</userId>
      </creator>
<creator>
         <individualName>
            <givenName>Lara</givenName>
            <surName>Mitchell</surName>
         </individualName>
         <organizationName>United States Fish and Wildlife Service</organizationName>
         <electronicMailAddress>lara_mitchell@fws.gov</electronicMailAddress>
         <userId directory="https://orcid.org">0000-0002-8439-8508</userId>
      </creator>
<creator>
         <individualName>
            <givenName>Ken</givenName>
            <surName>Newman</surName>
         </individualName>
         <electronicMailAddress>kbnewman2@gmail.com</electronicMailAddress>
         <userId directory="https://orcid.org">0000-0003-1734-5833</userId>
      </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/1433/2</url>
</online>
</distribution>
<contact>
         <individualName>
            <givenName>Leo</givenName>
            <surName>Polansky</surName>
         </individualName>
         <organizationName>United States Fish and Wildlife Service</organizationName>
         <electronicMailAddress>leo_polansky@fws.gov</electronicMailAddress>
         <userId directory="https://orcid.org">0000-0003-2738-8079</userId>
      </contact>
<contact>
         <individualName>
            <givenName>Lara</givenName>
            <surName>Mitchell</surName>
         </individualName>
         <organizationName>United States Fish and Wildlife Service</organizationName>
         <electronicMailAddress>lara_mitchell@fws.gov</electronicMailAddress>
         <userId directory="https://orcid.org">0000-0002-8439-8508</userId>
      </contact>
</dataSource>
</methodStep>