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<!DOCTYPE response PUBLIC "-//Avian Knowledge Network//DTD COVAR_SPAT 1.0//EN" "http://akn.ornith.cornell.edu/dtd/covar_spat_1_0.dtd">
<response>
<header>
<locale country="US" language="en"/>
<timestamp>2009-05-06T07:48:23.346-04:00</timestamp>
<criteria/>
<copyright>Copyright 2009 Cornell Lab of Ornithology - http://www.birds.cornell.edu  Image Removed</copyright>
<data-policy>AKN Data Sharing Policy - http://www.avianknowledge.net/content/about/akn-data-sharing-policy Image Removed</data-policy>
<comment>COVAR_SPAT metadata response</comment>
</header>
<result>
<covar-spat>
<covar-spat-metadata>
<data-record>
<attribute-data>
<field-name>PLAND</field-name>
<descriptive-name>Percentage of landscape (Fragstats)</descriptive-name>
<description>PLAND = the sum of the areas of all patches of the corresponding patch type, divided by total landscape area, multiplied by 100</description>
<data-type>NUMBER</data-type>
<units>Number</units>
<min-value>Not Described</min-value>
<max-value>Not Described</max-value>
<min-value-description>Not Described</min-value-description>
<max-value-description>Not Described</max-value-description>
<nodata-value>-9999</nodata-value>
</attribute-data>
</data-record>
</covar-spat-metadata>
</covar-spat>
</result>
</response>
| Header information includes the AKN COVAR_SPAT DTD
The timestamp of the response
A copyright element
The AKN data sharing policy element
A comment element
The data listing is a series of <data-record> elements. Each <data-record> contains 1 <attribute-data> element containing the <field-name>, a <descriptive-name>, <description>, <data-type>, <units>, <min-value>, <max-value>, <min-value-description>, <max-value-description>, and the <nodata-value> elements.
This particular example is for a Fragstats attribute. There are no set maximum or minimum values for this statistic so the value is set to "Not Described." The "Not Described value should be treated as NULL.
Some COVAR_SPAT values represent a value range. Many of the climate layers like precipitation and mean temperature will have both <min-value>, <max-value>, and <min-value-description> and the <source-table-name> element <max-value-description> data elements. In these cases where the data for a particular point is a data range the <min-value>, and <max-value> are discrete values and the <min-value-description> and <max-value-description> describe the actual value range for the attribute.
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