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Cumulative human impacts: change in pressures and cumulative impact (2008 to 2013)

Cumulative human impacts: change in pressures and cumulative impact (2008 to 2013) is an open dataset published by Knowledge Network for Biocomplexity (KNB), under CC0 1.0. It describes cumulative human impact. Coverage: global oceans, 2008-2013 (difference 2013 minus 2008).

CC0 1.0Published 2015Free download

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 rasters of the difference between 2013 and 2008 for each pressure (N=12) and final cumulative impacts data (N=1). These are calculated using data from: pressure and cumulative impacts data (2008 and 2013, subset of pressures updated for both time periods), and consequently do not incorporate data from: sea level rise, ocean pollution, invasives, and shipping because these data were not available for 2008. Data for 2008 and 2013 did not differ for: artisanal fishing, inorganic pollution, and ocean acidification.

The authors' description, from the dataset's DataCite record (10.5063/f1ws8r5t, CC0).

What it describes

Driver/Pressure
Cumulative human impact
Variables
Change Score/trend (-3 to 3 Low/decreasing to High/increasing)

Get the data

Open the KNB data package doi:10.5063/F1WS8R5T and download the zip for cumulative_impact_2013_minus_2008 (and any of the 12 pressure-change layers). UN Biodiversity Lab / MapX links are viewers only.

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: change in pressures and cumulative impact (2008 to 2013). Knowledge Network for Biocomplexity. doi:10.5063/F1WS8R5T. Article: Halpern, B.S. et al. 2015. Spatial and temporal changes in cumulative human impacts on the world's ocean. Nat. Commun. 6:7615.