Sea level rise and Florida’s insular vertebrate biodiversity: predictions of island inundation and the number of coastal species vulnerable to sea level rise

Description

Data include the proportion of Florida's coastal islands (n = 2504) that are projected to be inundated from sea level rise (SLR), as well as a prediction of the depth of SLR that would inundate each island. Data include the proportion of Florida's islands predicted to still be above water in 2100 that are currently human-modified. Data also include a count of the number of terrestrial, nonvolant mammalian, reptilian, and amphibian species on a subset list of Florida's Species of Greatest Conservation Need (n = 85) that are vulnerable to sea level rise because some or all of their distribution occurs on Florida's islands.

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Name Format Description Link
55 Landing page for access to the data https://doi.org/10.5066/P13GSGYH
55 The metadata original format https://data.usgs.gov/datacatalog/metadata/USGS.665dcceed34e19fd55a96b93.xml

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  • sea-level-change
  • coastal-ecosystems
  • biota
  • usgs-665dcceed34e19fd55a96b93
  • islands

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