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|                      New Mexico State University                 |
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All Jornada Desert Site NSF / LTER projects must be documented on
the following form.  In addition, associated data sets must also
be described on Data Set Documentation Forms, available from the
data manager.
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 1) Project title:
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    Transect Soil Disturbance

 2) Responsible investigator:
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    W. G. Whitford

 3) Date research commenced (mm/dd/yyyy):
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    08/01/1986

 4) Date research terminated (mm/dd/yyyy):
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    08/30/1986

 5) PI funding the research:
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    W. G. Whitford

 6) Additional investigator(s):
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    Steve Van Vactor
    Steve Loring

 7) Funding agency (ex. NSF, USDA):
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    NSF

 8) Funding cycle (Ex. LTER II, N/A):
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    LTER-I

 9) Informative abstract (Describe research project completely.
    Include project OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS.)
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    Data were collected on disturbances on soil/surface for different
    categories of animal (for example, Novomesser ant).  Information was
    used to calculate percent disturbance and soil disturbance density
    by animal on a fertilized (with NHNO3 in a concentration equal
    to 10g N/m2) transect and adjacent control transect.

10) Data set(s) associated with project:
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                                                       Documentation
    Data set name                                      file name
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    Transect Soil Disturbance                          TRANDIST.DSD

11) Publications resulting from project research:
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    <NONE>

12) Comments (Include any comments that here that more full describe
              this project):
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    <NONE>

13) Project file history log:
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    Project title     - Transect Soil Disturbance
    Project file name - TRANDIST.PRJ
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         mm/dd/yyyy      - Date of comment (month/day/year)
         Int             - Initials of person making comment
         Changes/Updates - List any changes made to document

         JPA             - John P. Anderson
         MAB             - Michelle A. Buonopane

    mm/dd/yyyy  Int  Changes/Updates
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    12/03/2002  MAB  Converted to new form.
    03/04/2003  JPA  Changed project and data file name to TRANDIST from
                     TRANSOIL.

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