Shapefiles created for the report "A Climate Resilient Path for Ireland’s Marine Protected Areas Network", an addendum chapter to "Revitalising Our Seas report: Identifying
Areas of Interest for Marine Protected Area Designation in Irish Waters"

These shapefiles summarise long-term patterns that emerge from the spatial-meta analysis of physical-biogeochemical and species distribution modelling data, providing an overview of the distribution of climate change refugia and climate change hotspots across Ireland's National Marine Planning Framework between 2026 - 2069, and across the two emissions scenarios considered in the report (RCP4.5 and RCP8.5). 

Filenames refer to the specific analysis each set of shapefiles belong to: Benthic habitats, benthic megafauna, pelagic habitats, pelagic megafauna and forage fish. Details of the modelling datasets used in each of these analyses, the meta-analysis method and shapefile creation can be found in Annex A1 in the report "A Climate Resilient Path for Ireland’s Marine Protected Areas Network".