Dataset: Bleaching and environmental data for global coral reef sites from 1980-2020

ValidatedFinal no updates expectedDOI: 10.26008/1912/bco-dmo.773466.2Version 2 (2022-10-14)Dataset Type:Other Field Results

Principal Investigator, Contact: Robert van Woesik (Florida Institute of Technology)

Co-Principal Investigator: Deron Burkepile (University of California-Santa Barbara)

Data Manager: Chelsey Kratochwill (Florida Institute of Technology)

BCO-DMO Data Manager: Shannon Rauch (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)

Project: Identifying coral reef 'bright spots' from the global 2015-2017 thermal-stress event (Coral Reef Brightspots)

Abstract

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.

Cite Dataset

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.

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Dataset: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.5314466
van Woesik, R., & Kratochwill, C. (2022). A Global Coral-Bleaching Database (GCBD), 1998–2020. figshare. https://doi.org/10.6084/M9.FIGSHARE.C.5314466
Methods
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Saha, K., Zhao, X., Zhang, H.-M., Casey, K. S., Zhang, D., Zhang, Y., Baker-Yeboah, S., Relph, J. M., Krishnan, A., &amp; Ryan, T. (2018). <i>The Coral Reef Temperature Anomaly Database (CoRTAD) Version 6 - Global, 4 km Sea Surface Temperature and Related Thermal Stress Metrics for 1982 to 2019</i> [Data set]. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information. doi:10.25921/ffw7-cs39

Related Publications

Results
Donovan, M. K., Burkepile, D. E., Kratochwill, C., Shlesinger, T., Sully, S., Oliver, T. A., Hodgson, G., Freiwald, J., & van Woesik, R. (2021). Local conditions magnify coral loss after marine heatwaves. Science, 372(6545), 977–980. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abd9464
Results
Sully, S., & Woesik, R. (2020). Turbid reefs moderate coral bleaching under climate‐related temperature stress. Global Change Biology, 26(3), 1367–1373. Portico. doi:10.1111/gcb.14948
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Sully, S., Burkepile, D. E., Donovan, M. K., Hodgson, G., & van Woesik, R. (2019). A global analysis of coral bleaching over the past two decades. Nature Communications, 10(1). doi:10.1038/s41467-019-09238-2
Results
van Woesik, R., & Kratochwill, C. (2022). A global coral-bleaching database, 1980–2020. Scientific Data, 9(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-022-01121-y
Methods
Donner, S. D., Rickbeil, G. J. M., & Heron, S. F. (2017). A new, high-resolution global mass coral bleaching database. PLOS ONE, 12(4), e0175490. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0175490

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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