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>Forest Inventory of a Northern Hardwood Forest: Bird Area at the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest, 1981</title>
<creator>
         <individualName>
            <givenName>Thomas</givenName>
            <givenName>W</givenName>
            <surName>Sherry</surName>
         </individualName>
         <organizationName>Department of Ecology, volution, and OrganismEal Biology, Tulane Universit</organizationName>
         <address>
            <city>New Orleans</city>
            <administrativeArea>LA</administrativeArea>
            <postalCode>70118</postalCode>
            <country>USA</country>
         </address>
         <userId directory="https://orcid.org">https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5602-2626</userId>
         <userId directory="https://ror.org/">https://ror.org/04vmvtb21</userId>
      </creator>
<creator>
         <individualName>
            <givenName>Richard</givenName>
            <givenName>T</givenName>
            <surName>Holmes</surName>
         </individualName>
         <organizationName>Dartmouth College</organizationName>
         <electronicMailAddress>richard.t.holmes@dartmouth.edu</electronicMailAddress>
         <userId directory="https://orcid.org">0000-0001-6705-6269</userId>
         <userId directory="https://ror.org/">https://ror.org/049s0rh22</userId>
      </creator>
<creator>
         <individualName>
            <givenName>Thomas G.</givenName>
            <surName>Siccama</surName>
         </individualName>
         <organizationName>Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies</organizationName>
      </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/knb-lter-hbr/42/8</url>
</online>
</distribution>
<contact>
         <positionName>Information Manager, Hubbard Brook LTER</positionName>
         <address>
            <deliveryPoint>234 Mirror Lake Road</deliveryPoint>
            <city>North Woodstock</city>
            <administrativeArea>NH</administrativeArea>
            <postalCode>03262</postalCode>
            <country>USA</country>
         </address>
         <phone phonetype="voice">(603) 726-8902</phone>
         <electronicMailAddress>hbr-im@lternet.edu</electronicMailAddress>
         <onlineUrl>https://www.hubbardbrook.org</onlineUrl>
      </contact>
</dataSource>
</methodStep>