Example Application
McGlynn et al. (2002) provide a comprehensive description of
hydrological processes in the Maimai watershed in New Zealand. Their
article concludes with a list of processes at the site. We used this
summary to demonstrate how textual process descriptions could be mapped
onto our taxonomy. Table 2 gives each description from the article, and
maps it to each level of the process hierarchy. The final column encodes
the type of information (magnitude, spatial variation, temporal
variation or response time). By tagging each text string with the
taxonomical name, this information could be more easily compared with
descriptions of other watersheds, or other sources of information about
the same watershed.