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<eml-dataset description="Overall description of data set"> 

  <meta_file_id description="Unique identifier of this metadata

record">NCEAS-1998-2244-Dist-Dataset</meta_file_id> 

  <dataset_id description="Unique identifier of the data set the meta-data

describes">Dist.ssd01</dataset_id> 

  <title description="Title or theme of data set">Insights on community dynamics from

large-scale, long-term data:  time series for zooplankton and environmental variates

from 35 North American lakes. 

</title> 

  <originator description="Names and addresses of principal investigators"> 

    <party description="Responsible party information"> 

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      <party_individual description="Full name of individual"> 

        <salutation description="Salutation"></salutation> 

        <given_name description="First name">James</given_name> 

        <surname description="Last Name">Rusak</surname> 

      </party_individual> 

      <meta_address description="Contact information"> 

        <address description="Street address">Department of Biology,  York University,

R.R. #2</address> 

        <city description="City">Singhampton</city> 

        <admin_area description="Administrative area (state, province,

territory)">ONT</admin_area> 

        <postal_code description="Postal code">M3J 1P3</postal_code> 

        <country description="Country">CANADA</country> 

        <email description="Email address">jrusak@yorku.ca</email> 

        <phone description="Phone number"> 

          <country_code description="Countrycode"></country_code> 

          <area_code description="Area code">416</area_code> 

          <local_code description="Local phone code">736-5392</local_code> 

          <extension description="Phone extension code"></extension> 

        </phone> 

      </meta_address> 

    </party> 

  </originator> 

  <abstract description="Descriptive abstract"> 

    <paragraph description="Paragraph of text">The NCEAS Community Dynamics Working

Group brought together theoretical and empirical ecologists to evaluate the relative

importance of intrinsic and extrinsic 

sources of variability in natural communities.   We focused on zooplankton community

dynamics, in part because we had access to extensive time series data on zooplankton

community structure from 35 North American lakes.   Thirty-four of the lakes were

concentrated at 5 sites:  the North Temperate Lakes LTER site in Wisconsin; the

University of Notre Dame Environmental Research Center in Michigan; 

the Dorset Environmental Research Centre,</paragraph> 

  </abstract> 

</eml-dataset>