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.