Climate_Vulnerability_Entities

Name of Spatial Reporting Sector. Contains the 3-letter island code (ISLANDCODE) or the island / atoll name (ISLAND). This is the field to join the data in this table with the SECTRNM field in the SECTOR shapefile, so the data can be plotted in a mapping application (e.g., ArcGIS).

Three-letter code for ISLAND.

Name of island or atoll surveyed in the Pacific Islands region (REGIONCODE).

The region surveyed in the Pacific Islands region: AMSM=American Samoa, PRIAs = Pacific Remote Island Areas, CNMI = Guam and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (Mariana Archipelago), MHI = main Hawaiian Islands, and NWHI = Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.

Raw data for Coral Disease:

Observed number of diseased colonies per square meter.

Raw data for Coral Diversity:

Diversity of hard corals. Expressed as the effective number of coral genera (exponential of the Shannon entropy index).

Raw data for Juvenile Coral Density:

Observed mean number of corals under 5 cm per square meter.

Raw data for Herbivorous Fish Biomass:

Observed biomass of herbivorous fishes, grams per 100 meters square.

Raw data for Macroalgal Cover:

Observed mean percent cover of macroalgae.

Raw data for Bleaching Resistant Corals:

Proportion of bleaching resistant coral species in an area, calculated from observed proportional abundance by species and observed patterns of bleaching by species.

Raw data for Fishing Depletion:

Percent depletion of reef fishes due to fishing mortality, calculated from differences between observed biomass and biomass expected in the absence of fishing pressure (Williams et al. 2015).

Raw data for Temperature Variability:

History of high temperature variability in an area, calculated from the climatological summer temperature range divided by the annual temperature range (Heron et al. 2016).

Normalized Coral Disease Metric (Observed number of diseased colonies per square meter.), normalized to be between 0 and 1 using the 5% quantile (q05) and 95% quantile (q95) of a sector's region according to Xnorm = (X - q05)/(q95-q05). The rare values below 0 or above 1 are set to 0 and 1 respectively.

Normalized Coral Diversity Metric (Diversity of hard corals, expressed as the effective number of coral genera (exponential of the Shannon entropy index)), normalized to be between 0 and 1 using the 5% quantile (q05) and 95% quantile (q95) of a sector's region according to Xnorm = (X - q05)/(q95-q05). The rare values below 0 or above 1 are set to 0 and 1 respectively.

Normalized Juvenile Coral Density Metric (Observed mean number of corals under 5 cm per square meter), normalized to be between 0 and 1 using the 5% quantile (q05) and 95% quantile (q95) of a sector's region according to Xnorm = (X - q05)/(q95-q05). The rare values below 0 or above 1 are set to 0 and 1 respectively.

Normalized Herbivorous Fish Biomass Metric (Observed biomass of herbivorous fishes, grams per 100 meters square), normalized to be between 0 and 1 using the 5% quantile (q05) and 95% quantile (q95) of a sector's region according to Xnorm = (X - q05)/(q95-q05). The rare values below 0 or above 1 are set to 0 and 1 respectively.

Normalized Macroalgal Cover Metric (Observed mean percent cover of macroalgae), normalized to be between 0 and 1 using the 5% quantile (q05) and 95% quantile (q95) of a sector's region according to Xnorm = (X - q05)/(q95-q05). The rare values below 0 or above 1 are set to 0 and 1 respectively.

Normalized Bleaching Resistant Corals Metric (Proportion of bleaching resistant coral species in an area, calculated from observed proportional abundance by species and observed patterns of bleaching by species), normalized to be between 0 and 1 using the 5% quantile (q05) and 95% quantile (q95) of a sector's region according to Xnorm = (X - q05)/(q95-q05). The rare values below 0 or above 1 are set to 0 and 1 respectively.

Normalized Fishing Depletion Metric

(Percentage depletion of reef fishes due to fishing mortality, calculated from differences between observed biomass and biomass expected in the absence of fishing pressure (Williams et al. 2015)), normalized to be between 0 and 1 using the 5% quantile (q05) and 95% quantile (q95) according to Xnorm = (X - q05)/(q95-q05). The rare values below 0 or above 1 are set to 0 and 1 respectively.

Normalized Temperature Variability Metric

(History of high temperature variability in an area, calculated from the climatological summer temperature range divided by the annual temperature range (Heron et al. 2016)), normalized to be between 0 and 1 using the 5% quantile (q05) and 95% quantile (q95) of a sector's region according to Xnorm = (X - q05)/(q95-q05). The rare values below 0 or above 1 are set to 0 and 1 respectively.

Total Resilience Metric: Unweighted mean of all eight normalized factors.

Normalized Total Resilience Metric, (unweighted mean of all eight normalized factors), normalized to be between 0 and 1 using the 5% quantile (q05) and 95% quantile (q95) of a sector's region according to Xnorm = (X - q05)/(q95-q05). The rare values below 0 or above 1 are set to 0 and 1 respectively.

Bleaching Resistance: Unweighted mean of the normalized factors Bleaching Resistant Corals and Thermal Variability.

Normalized Bleaching Resistance Metric: (unweighted mean of the normalized factors Bleaching Resistant Corals and Thermal Variability), normalized to be between 0 and 1 using the 5% quantile (q05) and 95% quantile (q95) of a sector's region according to Xnorm = (X - q05)/(q95-q05). The rare values below 0 or above 1 are set to 0 and 1 respectively.

Coral Competitiveness: Unweighted mean of the normalized factors Coral Diversity, Herbivorous Fish Biomass, Macroalgal Cover, and Juvenile Coral Density.

Normalized Coral Competitiveness Metric: (unweighted mean of the normalized factors Coral Diversity, Herbivorous Fish Biomass, Macroalgal Cover, and Juvenile Coral Density), normalized to be between 0 and 1 using the 5% quantile (q05) and 95% quantile (q95) of a sector's region according to Xnorm = (X - q05)/(q95-q05). The rare values below 0 or above 1 are set to 0 and 1 respectively.

Other Stressors: Unweighted mean of the normalized factors Fishing Depletion and Coral Disease.

Normalized Other Stressors Metric (unweighted mean of the normalized factors Fishing Depletion and Coral Disease), normalized to be between 0 and 1 using the 5% quantile (q05) and 95% quantile (q95) of a sector's region according to Xnorm = (X - q05)/(q95-q05). The rare values below 0 or above 1 are set to 0 and 1 respectively.