Metadata for Carlisle et al. A Web-Based Tool for Assessing the Condition of Benthic Diatom Assemblages in Streams and Rivers of the Conterminous United States
R code and data files used to identify diatom metrics that are robust to taxonomic inconsistency. The R code run a goodness of fit analysis to determine how much variation is explained by analyst in a diatom dataset that has been harmonized for taxonomic consistency compared to the original raw dataset. 

This dataset …