©2020 Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office.These data include information on the presence and absence of coral bleaching, allowing comparative analyses and the determination of geographical bleaching thresholds, together with site exposure, distance to land, mean turbidity, cyclone frequency, and a suite of sea-surface temperature metrics at the times of survey.
See Methods of van Woesik and Kratochwill (2022; doi: 10.1038/s41597-022-01121-y)
Briefly, data were collected from seven sources: 1) Reef Check (https://www.reefcheck.org/global-reef-tracker/), (2) Donner et al. (2017), (3) McClanahan et al. (2019), (4) AGRRA (https://www.agrra.org), (5) FRRP (https://ocean.floridamarine.org/FRRP/Home/Reports), (6) Safaie et al. (2018), and (7) Kumagai et al. (2018). Site coordinates were standardized to decimal degrees using Google Earth. Coordinates were compared to ensure a sampling event was not duplicated across multiple data sources. Points were removed if they occurred on land or were more than 1 kilometer from a coral reef. Environmental and site data were added to each site, including reef site exposure, distance to land, mean turbidity, cyclone frequency, and CoRTAD Version 6 environmental data.
van Woesik, R., Burkepile, D. (2022) Bleaching and environmental data for global coral reef sites from 1980-2020. Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office (BCO-DMO). (Version 2) Version Date 2022-10-14 [if applicable, indicate subset used]. doi:10.26008/1912/bco-dmo.773466.2 [access date]
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