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>Aquatic macrophyte, snail, and crayfish abundance and richness data for ten lakes in Vilas County, WI, USA, 1987-2020</title>
<creator>
      <individualName>
        <givenName>Daniel</givenName>
        <givenName>K</givenName>
        <surName>Szydlowski</surName>
      </individualName>
      <organizationName>Center for Limnology, University of Wisconsin-Madison</organizationName>
      <positionName>PhD Student</positionName>
      <electronicMailAddress>dszydlowski@wisc.edu</electronicMailAddress>
      <onlineUrl>https://dannyszydlowski.weebly.com/</onlineUrl>
      <userId directory="https://orcid.org">0000-0003-3920-8776</userId>
    </creator>
<creator>
      <individualName>
        <salutation>Dr.</salutation>
        <givenName>Ashley</givenName>
        <givenName>K</givenName>
        <surName>Elgin</surName>
      </individualName>
      <organizationName>National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory, Muskegon, Michigan</organizationName>
      <electronicMailAddress>ashley.elgin@noaa.gov</electronicMailAddress>
      <userId directory="https://orcid.org">0000-0001-5728-9843</userId>
    </creator>
<creator>
      <individualName>
        <salutation>Dr.</salutation>
        <givenName>David</givenName>
        <givenName>M</givenName>
        <surName>Lodge</surName>
      </individualName>
      <organizationName>Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability, and Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University</organizationName>
      <electronicMailAddress>dml356@cornell.edu</electronicMailAddress>
    </creator>
<creator>
      <individualName>
        <givenName>Jeremy</givenName>
        <givenName>S</givenName>
        <surName>Tiemann</surName>
      </individualName>
      <organizationName>Illinois Natural History Survey, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign</organizationName>
      <electronicMailAddress>jtiemann@illinois.edu</electronicMailAddress>
      <userId directory="https://orcid.org">0000-0001-7635-1403</userId>
    </creator>
<creator>
      <individualName>
        <salutation>Dr.</salutation>
        <givenName>Eric</givenName>
        <givenName>R</givenName>
        <surName>Larson</surName>
      </individualName>
      <organizationName>Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign</organizationName>
      <electronicMailAddress>erlarson@illinois.edu</electronicMailAddress>
      <onlineUrl>https://sites.google.com/view/eric-r-larson-lab/home</onlineUrl>
      <userId directory="https://orcid.org">0000-0002-9232-5907</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/knb-lter-ntl/417/2</url>
</online>
</distribution>
<contact>
      <individualName>
        <givenName>Daniel</givenName>
        <givenName>K</givenName>
        <surName>Szydlowski</surName>
      </individualName>
      <organizationName>Center for Limnology, University of Wisconsin-Madison</organizationName>
      <address>
        <deliveryPoint>680 N Park Street</deliveryPoint>
        <city>Madison</city>
        <administrativeArea>WI</administrativeArea>
        <postalCode>53706</postalCode>
        <country>United States</country>
      </address>
      <electronicMailAddress>dszydlowski@wisc.edu</electronicMailAddress>
      <onlineUrl>https://dannyszydlowski.weebly.com</onlineUrl>
      <userId directory="https://orcid.org">0000-0003-3920-8776</userId>
    </contact>
</dataSource>
</methodStep>