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Cumulative human impacts: pressure and cumulative impacts data (2013, all pressures)

Cumulative human impacts: pressure and cumulative impacts data (2013, all pressures) is an open dataset published by Knowledge Network for Biocomplexity (KNB), under CC0 1.0. It describes alien potential and pollution. Coverage: global oceans (bbox -180,180,-90,90), 2008-2013 (package contains the 2013 layers). Biohotspot shows it on its map as 1 layer.

CC0 1.0Published 2015Free downloadOn the map · 1 layer

About this dataset

This is a portion of the data used to calculate 2008 and 2013 cumulative human impacts in: Halpern et al. 2015. Spatial and temporal changes in cumulative human impacts on the world's ocean. Seven data packages are available for this project: (1) supplementary data (habitat data and other files); (2) raw stressor data (2008 and 2013); (3) stressor data rescaled by one time period (2008 and 2013, scaled from 0-1); (4) stressor data rescaled by two time periods (2008 and 2013, scaled from 0-1); (5) pressure and cumulative impacts data (2013, all pressures); (6) pressure and cumulative impacts data (2008 and 2013, subset of pressures updated for both time periods); (7) change in pressures and cumulative impact (2008 to 2013). All raster files are .tif format and coordinate reference system is mollweide wgs84. Here is an overview of the calculations: Raw stressor data -> rescaled stressor data (values between 0-1) -> pressure data (stressor data after adjusting for habitat/pressure vulnerability) -> cumulative impact (sum of pressure data) -> difference between 2008 and 2013 pressure and cumulative impact data. This data package includes the 2013 pressure and final cumulative impacts data. The pressure data are the stressor data after adjusting for the vulnerability of the habitats to a given pressure. These pressure data are then summed to calculate the cumulative impacts data. This is the most complete data but is not appropriate for comparing to the 2008 data (for that use data package: Cumulative human impacts: 2008 and 2013 pressure and cumulative impacts data (subset of pressures)). Pressure data was calculated for each stressor by: (1) multiplying the rescaled stressor (rescaled using only the 2013 data) by each habitat layer and the corresponding stressor/habitat vulnerability score (for each stressor this generates: 20 rasters); (2) summing the resulting stressor/habitat/vulnerability rasters (generates 1 raster for each stressor); (3) dividing by the number of habitats found in each raster cell layer. The cumulative impacts was calculated by summing all the pressure rasters. There are N=19 pressure rasters and N=1 cumulative impact raster.

The authors' description, from the dataset's DataCite record (10.5063/f15718zn, CC0).

What it describes

Driver/Pressure
Alien potentialPollution
Variables
Port cargo volume (amout of cargo traffic at ports)Light pollution (radiance values)Shipping pollution (ship activity (number of ships))Pesticide coastal pollution (average annual use in agricultural land)Fertiliser coastal pollution (average annual use in agricultural land)

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Get the data

Open the KNB data package doi:10.5063/F15718ZN and download the zipped files (19 pressure layers plus 1 cumulative impact layer). No login was observed in the metadata.

Used on 203 marine park pages

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and 179 more: all marine parks.

How to cite it

Halpern, B., Frazier, M., Potapenko, J., Casey, K., Koenig, K., Longo, C., Lowndes, J., Rockwood, C., Selig, E., Selkoe, K., Walbridge, S. (2015) Cumulative human impacts: pressure and cumulative impacts data (2013, all pressures). KNB. doi:10.5063/F15718ZN. Associated paper: Halpern et al. 2015, 'Spatial and temporal changes in cumulative human impacts on the world's ocean' (no formal citation string given in the metadata).