minor questions/fixes to GROA

[ValentineHerr]

@CookPatton,

As I am working with GROA data I find little issues that should be addressed. I will list them here as I find them. Let me know if you want me to fix them myself or if you would like to do it on your end (updating directly into your master version on GitHub).

• nonsoil_litter_CWD:

• [ ] sand.silt.clay,format has changed. It used to be sand:silt:clay and is now sand.silt.clay. Not a big deal but I do have to change my code accordingly. Is that the final format ?

• [ ] sand.silt.clay, records from site.id 2357 and 398 have a date, probably due to Excel annoying formatting.

• sitesf:

• [ ] soil.classification is not standardized, there are lots of leading (and extra) spaces and different spellings.

[CookPatton]

@ValentineHerr Thank you for spotting the issues. I'll put it on my list to remedy these. But yes, the new format for sand.silt.clay is a period between the numbers because I found that the : turned it annoyingly into a date in excel. I thought I caught the errors, but will have to fix those on site 2357 and 398. I can also standardize soil.classification. I haven't worked with that data field yet so haven't bothered to clean up, but will.

[ValentineHerr]

@CookPatton, site.id 4788 and 5243 are missing in sitesf.csv. Do you have that somewhere ?

[CookPatton]

Hi @ValentineHerr - yes I can confirm that sites 4788 and 5243 should be deleted. The geolocation falls where there is no information in Dinerstein for ecoregion/biome (presumably in the ocean).