Predicting the vulnerability of nearshore species and habitats to climate change effects

The primary objective of the research is to develop a rule-based decision support system to predict the relative vulnerability of nearshore species to climate change. The approach is designed to be applicable to fishes and invertebrates with limited data by predicting risk from readily avialable data, including species’ biogeographic distributions and natural history attributes. By evaluating multiple species and climate stressors, the approach allows an assessment of climate vulnerability across habitat types and the impact of specific climate alterations as well as their cumulative impact. A website with a rule-based application for rockfish and crabs is availalble at http://cbrat.org/.

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Intertidal Mussel (Mytilus) Data from Prince William Sound, Katmai National Park and Preserve, and Kenai Fjords National Park

These data are part of the Gulf Watch Alaska (GWA) long-term monitoring program and describe mussel sampling and observations conducted in the northern Gulf of Alaska. This dataset consists of six comma separated files (.csv): 1) mussel sampling site layout information, 2) mussel counts for mussels greater than 20 millimeters in a quadrat, 3) mussel size measurements for mussels greater than 20 millimeters in a quadrat, 4) mussel counts for all mussels collected from core samples, 5) mussel size frequencies for all mussels collected from core samples, and 6) list of Gulf Watch Alaska principal investigators and collaborators.

Tags: Alaska, Animals/Invertebrates, Aquatic biology, Aquatic ecosystems, Aquatic ecosystems, All tags... Benthic ecosystems, Benthic habitat, Bioindicator, Biospheric indicators, Biota, Coastal ecosystems, Coastal habitat, Coastal processes, Ecology, Environment, Field inventory and monitoring, Field sampling, Gulf of Alaska, Katmai National Park and Preserve, Kenai Fjords National Park, Macroinvertebrates, Marine ecosystems, Marine environment monitoring, Marine environments, Mollusks, Mollusks, Mussels, Pacific Blue Mussel, Prince William Sound, Size distribution, Spatial distribution, Wildlife, Fewer tags

Rocky Intertidal Data from Prince William Sound, Katmai National Park and Preserve, and Kenai Fjords National Park

These data are part of the Gulf Watch Alaska (GWA) long-term monitoring program, nearshore monitoring component. The dataset has four comma separated values (.csv) file exported from a Microsoft Access relational database. The data consist of: 1) size and disease state of sea stars, 2) counts of sea stars, 3) taxonomic classification and 4) Gulf Watch Alaska contributors.

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