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Data and R code accompanying:

Impacts of heat stress on soft corals, an overlooked and highly vulnerable component of coral reef ecosystems, at a central equatorial Pacific atoll

Authors: Dominique G. Maucieri, and Julia K. Baum

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Scripts Folder

• soft_coral_cover_models.R for the models used in the manuscript analysis

• sample_sizes.R for the script to create Table S1

• figures.R for the script to create the figures

Data Folder

• raw_soft_coral.RData includes raw soft coral cover data from Kiritimati island

  • UniqueID: Unique identification for each quadrat at each site in each year sampled
  • Year: Year that the data was collected
  • Site: Site number
  • FieldSeason: Field season ID
  • HD_Cat: Estimate of local human disturbance at each site as a categorical variable
  • HD_Cont: Estimate of local human disturbance at each site as a continuous variable
  • NPP: Max net primary productivity at each site (mg C m^-2 day^-1)
  • WE: If the sampling site is on the sheltered or windward side of the atoll
  • Region: Region of the atoll
  • TimeBlock: If the sampling season was before, during or after the El Niño event
  • WindEnergy: Wave energy at each site (kW m^-1)
  • Lobophytum: Coral cover (%) for the soft coral Lobophytum
  • Sinularia: Coral cover (%) for the soft coral Sinularia
  • Sarcophyton: Coral cover (%) for the soft coral Sarcophyton
  • Cladiella: Coral cover (%) for the soft coral Cladiella

• Literature_Review.xlsx raw data collected for literature review of soft coral data from recent heatwaves

  *README: tab contains definitions of all columns and colors used as well as summaries of data collected