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

Description

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
0 PIFSC Special Publication, SP-20-002a https://doi.org/10.25923/5xhp-5k12
0 PIFSC Special Publication, SP-20-002b https://doi.org/10.25923/mpdz-jm19
0 Online Resource https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/region/pacific-islands#science
0 Data file with social metrics associated with Social Vulnerability analysis. https://accession.nodc.noaa.gov/0211010
0 Document linking data from a particular figure in the associated publications to a column in linked datasets. https://accession.nodc.noaa.gov/0211010
0 Data file with ecological metrics associated with Climate/Ecological Resilience analysis. https://accession.nodc.noaa.gov/0211010
0 View the complete metadata record on InPort for more information about this dataset. https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inport/item/59258
0 PIFSC Special Publication, SP-20-002c https://doi.org/10.25923/sn8p-4z44
0 Online Resource https://www.coris.noaa.gov/monitoring/
33 NOAA Data Management Plan for this record on InPort. https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inportserve/waf/noaa/nmfs/pifsc/dmp/pdf/59258.pdf
0 Pacific Island Fisheries Science Center homepage https://www.pifsc.noaa.gov
0 PIFSC Special Publication, SP-20-002d https://doi.org/10.25923/t9tm-pa91
0 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. https://accession.nodc.noaa.gov/0211010
0 Global Change Master Directory (GCMD). 2024. GCMD Keywords, Version 19. Greenbelt, MD: Earth Science Data and Information System, Earth Science Projects Division, Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). URL (GCMD Keyword Forum Page): https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD+Keywords https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD%2BKeywords
0 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. https://accession.nodc.noaa.gov/0211010
0 Data file with ecological metrics associated with Climate/Ecological Resilience analysis. https://accession.nodc.noaa.gov/0211010
0 Data file with social metrics associated with Social Vulnerability analysis. https://accession.nodc.noaa.gov/0211010
0 Document linking data from a particular figure in the associated publications to a column in linked datasets. https://accession.nodc.noaa.gov/0211010
0 View the complete metadata record on InPort for more information about this dataset. https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inport/item/59258
0 Pacific Island Fisheries Science Center homepage https://www.pifsc.noaa.gov
0 PIFSC Special Publication, SP-20-002a https://doi.org/10.25923/5xhp-5k12
0 PIFSC Special Publication, SP-20-002b https://doi.org/10.25923/mpdz-jm19
0 PIFSC Special Publication, SP-20-002c https://doi.org/10.25923/sn8p-4z44
0 PIFSC Special Publication, SP-20-002d https://doi.org/10.25923/t9tm-pa91
0 Online Resource https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/region/pacific-islands#science
0 Online Resource https://www.coris.noaa.gov/monitoring/
0 Global Change Master Directory (GCMD). 2025. GCMD Keywords, Version 22. Greenbelt, MD: Earth Science Data and Information System, Earth Science Projects Division, Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). URL (GCMD Keyword Forum Page): https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD+Keywords https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD%2BKeywords
33 NOAA Data Management Plan for this record on InPort. https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inportserve/waf/noaa/nmfs/pifsc/dmp/pdf/59258.pdf

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  • hawaiian islands (21n157w0027)
  • guguan island
  • lanai island (20n156w0002)
  • farallon de pajaros (20n144e0001)
  • kingman reef (06n162w0001)
  • lanai island
  • ofu island (14s169w0013)
  • doc/noaa/nmfs/pifsc
  • united states of america
  • american samoa (14s170w0000)
  • western pacific ocean
  • latitude
  • pacific remote islands marine national monument
  • alamagan island (17n145e0002)
  • reef monitoring and assessment
  • maug
  • johnston atoll (16n169w0001)
  • asuncion island (19n145e0001)
  • aquatic habitat
  • wake atoll
  • corals
  • guguan island (17n145e0001)
  • north pacific ocean
  • baker island
  • oahu (21n157w0003)
  • northern mariana islands
  • fish - coral reef
  • pifsc
  • equatorial pacific ocean
  • jarvis island (00s160w0001)
  • maui
  • biosphere
  • coral - species identification
  • survey - coral reef
  • longitude
  • pacific remote island areas
  • maug island
  • palmyra atoll (05n162w0001)
  • rota island
  • tutuila island (14s170w0016)
  • ocean and climate change
  • oceans
  • water temperature
  • maui island (20n156w0004)
  • rose atoll marine national monument
  • mhi
  • coral reef conservation program
  • rota island ( luta ) (14n145e0007)
  • molokai island
  • maug island (20n145e0001)
  • reef and/or bottom regime - percent cover
  • northern mariana islands ( cnmi ) (18n146e0000)
  • climate change vulnerability analysis for us pacific reefs - integrating exposure
  • american samoa
  • maui island
  • pmnm
  • cnmi
  • aguihan island reefs
  • papahanaumokuakea marine national monument
  • noaa
  • guam
  • aguihan
  • pagan island (18n145e0001)
  • numeric data sets
  • marianas
  • hawaii
  • nmfs
  • farallon de pajaros
  • oahu island
  • biology
  • baker island (00n176w0001)
  • swains atoll (11s171w0001)
  • guam (13n144e0000)
  • us doc
  • tinian island reefs
  • fish
  • in situ
  • hawaii island (19n155w0003)
  • kauai
  • ta'u island (14s169w0012)
  • howland island
  • pacific islands fisheries science center
  • manu'a group
  • olosega island (14s169w0014)
  • u.s. department of commerce
  • earth science
  • molokai island (21n157w0001)
  • and social adaptive capacity
  • maro reef (25n170w0001)
  • macroalgae
  • line islands
  • national marine fisheries service
  • niihau island (21n160w0001)
  • french frigate shoals (24n166w0001)
  • survey – swimmer/diver
  • nwhi
  • hawaiian islands
  • kauai island (22n159w0001)
  • mariana archipelago
  • manu'a islands (14s170w0038)
  • primnm
  • pria
  • 30174
  • marine biology
  • fish assemblages
  • howland island (00s176w0001)
  • guguan
  • gis product
  • honolulu
  • saipan island
  • rota
  • saipan
  • northwestern hawaiian islands (28n178w0000)
  • marianas trench marine national monument
  • pagan
  • northwest pacific ocean
  • aguihan island (aguijan) (14n145e0006)
  • central pacific ocean
  • usa minor outlying islands
  • commonwealth of the northern mariana islands
  • mariana islands
  • kure atoll (28n178w0001)
  • pagan island
  • reef habitat
  • derived products
  • asuncion island
  • satellite data
  • coral reef ecology
  • ocean basin
  • main hawaiian islands
  • ecosystem sciences division
  • coral
  • niihau island
  • coastal processes
  • johnston atoll
  • resilience
  • laysan island (25n171w0001)
  • saipan island (15n145e0002)
  • northwestern hawaiian islands
  • zoology
  • coral reefs
  • sarigan island (16n145e0003)
  • rose atoll (14s168w0001)
  • kauai island
  • pacific ocean
  • country/territory
  • midway atoll (28n177w0001)
  • tinian
  • hawaii island
  • fish biomass
  • wake atoll (19n167e0001)
  • alamagan island
  • sarigan island
  • south pacific ocean
  • lisianski island (25n173w0001)
  • tinian island (14n145e0005)
  • coral reef studies

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