Habitat Protection Indexes - new monitoring measures for the conservation of threatened marine habitats - Datasets and supporting files

The supporting datasets, scripts, and supplementary information for the manuscript, "Habitat Protection Indexes - new monitoring measures for the conservation of threatened marine habitats," are available within this repository.

We conduct an analysis on the coverage of protected areas that cover six threatened marine and coastal and developed two indexes, the Local Proportion of Habitat Protected Index and the Global Proportion of Habitat Protected Index, describing the protection of these habitats locally and globally. The habitats considered are the following: cold corals, warm water corals, knolls and seamounts, mangroves, saltmarshes, and seagrasses.

The index scores of each jurisdiction are made available for download in the dataset: habitat_protection_indexes_average.csv

The habitat specific index scores for each jurisdiction are made available for download in the dataset: habitat_protection_indexes.csv. 

Column name descriptions are available in the text file: Column_name_descriptions_20220301

The scripts used to run the workflow to calculate the indexes, create figures, and calculate statistics for the manuscript are also included. The script 01_Workflow sources the first 9 scripts in the scripts folder to calculate the indexes which relies on the functions script within the functions folder. The rest of the scripts in the folder create the figures and calculate the statistics for the manuscript.

A readme pdf file is included here to ease with reproducing the workflow, but we strongly suggest to please visit our github (https://github.com/jkumagai96/Marine_Habitat_protection) to reproduce the entire calculation where we provide detailed information on how to run the workflow and package management.