"ORDER"	"Attribute_Name"	"Storage_Type"	"Measurement_Scale"	"Number_Type"	"UNITS"	"DESCRIPTION"	"CODES"
2	"Year"	"I"	"date-Time"	"n/a"	"nominalYear"	"Year the production measurements were made."	"yyyy"
3	"Site"	"C(3-5)"	"nominal"	"n/a"	"n/a"	"Sites"	"The two westernmost sites, the Shortgrass Steppe Long-term Ecological Research site (SGS) and a Nature Conservancy owned ranch near the Arickaree River in central eastern Colorado (ARI), are typical shortgrass steppe plant communities, dominated by Buchloe dactyloides and Bouteloua gracilis (Lauenroth and Milchunas 1992).  Smokey Valley Ranch (SVR), also owned by The Nature Conservancy, is located just north of the Smokey River in central western Kansas and has a mixture of both shortgrass steppe and mixed grass prairie vegetation.  In central Kansas, a southern mixed grass prairie owned and managed by Ft. Hays State University (HAYS) is dominated by plants typically found in this grassland community type, Schizachyrium scoparium and Bouteloua curtipendula (Coupland 1992).  The most eastern site, the Konza Prairie Biological Station (KONZA), is owned by The Nature Conservancy, managed by Kansas State University, and is also a Long-term Ecological Research site.  KONZA is a tallgrass prairie with dominant plant species being Andropogon gerardii and Sorghastrum nutans (Silletti and Knapp 2000).  "
4	"Plot"	"I"	"nominal"	"n/a"	"n/a"	"1,2,3,4- the 4 permanent plots at each site."	"C1,C2,C3,C4"
5	"Location"	"C(4-5)"	"nominal"	"real"	"n/a"	"Betw- N-min measurement located between individual plants. Under - 'B' - soil respiration ring located between individual plants. 'U' - soil respiration ring located under crown/tiller of individual plants."	"B= Between, U= Under"
6	"Sresp_CO2"	"F(5.2)"	"ratio"	"real"	"gramsPerSquareMeter"	"Instantaneous soil respiration measurement made on one day during the month."	"gCO2/m2/hr"
7	"Sresp_C"	"F(5.2)"	"ratio"	"real"	"gramsPerSquareMeter"	"Instantaneous soil respiration measurement made on one day during the month."	"gC/m2/hr"
8	"Stemp_C"	"I"	"ratio"	"real"	"celsius"	"Instantaneous soil temperature measurement made on the same day as soil respiration measurement."	"n/a"
9	"Wfps"	"F(4.1)"	"ratio"	"real"	"millimeter"	"Water-filled pore space  of soil sample collected on same day as soil respiration measurements."	"(wfps = Volumetric soil moisture/Porespace (1-(BulkDensity/2.65))"
1	"Month"		"nominal"	"n/a"	"nomialMonth"		"mm"
