59260
Climate_Vulnerability_Entities
Entity
Published / External
59258
Coral Reef Resilience and Social Vulnerability to Climate Change in the U.S.-affiliated Pacific Islands
Data Set
Spreadsheet
Yes
Data dictionary for the climate vulnerability analysis data used in the "Coral Reef Resilience and Social Vulnerability to Climate Change" reports for the main Hawaiian Islands, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and American Samoa.
FAC_CoralDiversity
NUMBER
No
No
Active
Raw data for Coral Diversity:
Diversity of hard corals. Expressed as the effective number of coral genera (exponential of the Shannon entropy index).
FAC_CoralJuvDensity
NUMBER
No
No
Active
Raw data for Juvenile Coral Density:
Observed mean number of corals under 5 cm per square meter.
FAC_FishingDepletion
NUMBER
No
No
Active
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).
FAC_HerbivorousFishBiomass
NUMBER
No
No
Active
Raw data for Herbivorous Fish Biomass:
Observed biomass of herbivorous fishes, grams per 100 meters square.
FAC_MacroalgalCover_FishTeam
NUMBER
No
No
Active
Raw data for Macroalgal Cover:
Observed mean percent cover of macroalgae.
FAC_TemperatureVariability
NUMBER
No
No
Active
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).
N0595FAC_BleachingResistance
NUMBER
No
No
Active
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.
N0595FAC_CoralDiversity
NUMBER
No
No
Active
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.
N0595FAC_CoralJuvDensity
NUMBER
No
No
Active
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.
N0595FAC_Den.Diseased
NUMBER
No
No
Active
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.
N0595FAC_FishingDepletion
NUMBER
No
No
Active
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.
N0595FAC_HerbivorousFishBiomass
NUMBER
No
No
Active
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.
N0595FAC_MacroalgalCover_FishTeam
NUMBER
No
No
Active
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.
Resistance
NUMBER
No
No
Active
Bleaching Resistance: Unweighted mean of the normalized factors Bleaching Resistant Corals and Thermal Variability.
ResistanceNorm
NUMBER
No
No
Active
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.
Stress.Free
NUMBER
No
No
Active
Other Stressors: Unweighted mean of the normalized factors Fishing Depletion and Coral Disease.
Stress.FreeNorm
NUMBER
No
No
Active
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.
TotalResilienceNorm
NUMBER
No
No
Active
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.
TotalResilience
NUMBER
No
No
Active
Total Resilience Metric: Unweighted mean of all eight normalized factors.
FAC_BleachingResistance
NUMBER
No
No
Active
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.
FAC_Den.Diseased
NUMBER
No
No
Active
Raw data for Coral Disease:
Observed number of diseased colonies per square meter.
CoralCompetitivenessNorm
NUMBER
No
No
Active
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.
N0595FAC_TemperatureVariability
NUMBER
No
No
Active
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.
CoralCompetitiveness
NUMBER
No
No
Active
Coral Competitiveness: Unweighted mean of the normalized factors Coral Diversity, Herbivorous Fish Biomass, Macroalgal Cover, and Juvenile Coral Density.
1
Benthic_Sector
TEXT
No
No
Active
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).
2
IslandCode
TEXT
No
No
Active
Three-letter code for ISLAND.
3
Island
TEXT
No
No
Active
Name of island or atoll surveyed in the Pacific Islands region (REGIONCODE).
4
RegionCode
TEXT
No
No
Active
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.
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2020-04-08T22:53:15
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2022-08-09T17:11:45
2020-06-26
Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center
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1001
Public
No
2020-06-26
1 Year
2021-06-26