Sea level rise damages on ecosystem quality – a life cycle impact pathway

The data provide supplementary information for the paper "Sea level rise damages on ecosystem quality – a life cycle impact pathway".

It contains the developed fate, exposure, effect, and characterisation factors for sea level rise damages on terrestrial ecosystems. 

It covers:

• 244 Greenhouse Gases (GHGs)
• 435 terrestrial ecoregions affected from sea level rise
• 5 taxonomic groups (amphibians, birds, mammals, reptiles, and vascular plants) and taxon-generic factors
• 5 different Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs): SSP1-1.9, SSP1-2.6, SSP2-4.5, SSP3-7.0, and SSP5-8.5
• 5 broad land use types: cropland, pasture, plantations, managed forests, and urban areas with 3 land use intensities: minimal, light, intense

The results are structed as followed: 

To-use: 

• FF_EF_CF_to_use.xls: Summarizing fate, effect, effect * vulnerability, and characterisation factors with a mean value (SSP2), minimum and maximum values across SSPs, and combined factors of sea level rise with surface temperature increase from Iordan et al. (2023)

SSP1-SSP5:

• FF_EF_CF.xls: Summarizing fate, effect, effect * vulnerability, and characterisation factors with mean, minimum, and maximum values within the SSP
• Spatial analysis with ecoregions_with_ef.shp: Containing Ecoregion ID and name, area of the object (AREA), total ecoregion area (area_km2), effect factors for all taxonomic groups (EF_taxonomic group) and taxon-generic (EF_t_gener), effect * vulnarability factors for all taxonomic groups (EFxSF_taxonomic group) and taxon-generic (EFxSF_t_ge)
• Flood model results:
  • Flood_results.xls/csv: Containing the flooded area in km2 and in percent of all affected terrestrial ecoregions 
  • hydro_con_flood_SSP.tif: Showing the flooded areas under the specific SSP with flooded areas having a value of 1 (resolution of 3 arc-seconds)

Paper: Teutloff, N.; Dorber, M.; Holzapfel, P.; Finkbeiner, M.; Laurent, A. Sea Level Rise Damages on Ecosystem Quality: A Life Cycle Impact Pathway. Environ. Sci. Technol. 2026, DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.6c04798.