Coral Reef Resilience and Social Vulnerability to Climate Change in the U.S.-affiliated Pacific Islands

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This dataset results from an analysis of exposure, resilience, and social vulnerability to climate change threats for the coral reefs of the U.S.-affiliated Pacific Islands. Standard methodologies were applied to assess ecological resilience and social vulnerability of communities surveyed by the NOAA National Coral Reef Monitoring Program (NCRMP) in the Pacific. The analysis focuses primarily on increases in ocean temperatures and the impact of coral bleaching on the U.S.'s Pacific coral reefs and the communities that depend on them. Findings from the analysis are presented in a publication series, Coral Reef Resilience and Social Vulnerability to Climate Change, for the main Hawaiian Islands, American Samoa, Guam, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.

The coral reef resilience indices include 7 ecological factors and temperature variability. The ecological data were derived from NCRMP datasets from 2013 to 2015---including coral demographic surveys (coral diversity, coral disease, juvenile coral density, bleaching resistant corals), reef fish surveys (herbivorous fish biomass, fishing depletion), and photoquadrat surveys (macroalgal cover)---with factor selection and calculation following McClanahan et al. (2012) and Maynard et al. (2015). Temperature variability data are from Heron et al. (2016). The 8 factors were normalized and combined to derive total resilience, bleaching resistance, coral competitiveness and other stressors. All social vulnerability data were derived from the U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey (ACS), analyzed following Kleiber et al. (2018). Social vulnerability indices include housing characteristics, labor force, personal disruption, population composition, and poverty. Exposure data presented in the publication series are directly from van Hooidonk et al. (2016) and are not included with this dataset.

The geographic data file to plot the ecological data generated from the analysis are included with this dataset. The social data can be plotted using the TIGER Line shapefiles for county subdivisions from the U.S. Census Bureau.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
ClimateVulnerabilityAnalysisv1.5_2020.csv Unknown Data file with ecological metrics associated with Climate/Ecological Resilience analysis. Open resource
Figure_Data_Workup.csv Unknown Document linking data from a particular figure in the associated publications to a column in linked datasets. Open resource
ALL_SECTOR_BUFFER_6KM_NOLAND.zip Unknown The zip file contains the 6-km buffered sectors shapefile used to map the data in ClimateVulnerabilityAnalysisv1.5_2020.csv (with land masses removed). The join field is 'sectrnm' in the sectors shapefile and 'Benthic_Sector' in the data file. Open resource
SocialVulnerabilityIndices_CCVA_WIDE_2020.csv Unknown Data file with social metrics associated with Social Vulnerability analysis. Open resource
Coral Reef Resilience and Social Vulnerability to Climate Change: main Hawaiian Islands Unknown PIFSC Special Publication, SP-20-002a Open resource
Coral Reef Resilience and Social Vulnerability to Climate Change: Guam Unknown PIFSC Special Publication, SP-20-002b Open resource
Coral Reef Resilience and Social Vulnerability to Climate Change: Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands Unknown PIFSC Special Publication, SP-20-002c Open resource
Coral Reef Resilience and Social Vulnerability to Climate Change: American Samoa Unknown PIFSC Special Publication, SP-20-002d Open resource
NOAA National Coral Reef Monitoring Program Unknown Online Resource Open resource
Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Keywords Unknown The information provided on this page seeks to define how the GCMD Keywords are structured, used and accessed. It also provides information on how users can participate in the further development of the keywords. Open resource
Full Metadata Record Unknown View the complete metadata record on InPort for more information about this dataset. Open resource
NOAA Data Management Plan (DMP) PDF NOAA Data Management Plan for this record on InPort. Open resource
NOAA Fisheries Pacific Islands Unknown Online Resource Open resource
Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center Website Unknown Pacific Island Fisheries Science Center homepage Open resource

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