mpa_cc_toe

Repository to explore the temperature of emergence of the global marine protected areas

Authors

Juliano Palacios Abrantes1, Sarah M. Roberts2, William W.L. Cheung1

1 Changing Ocean Research Unit, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver CA 2 Duke University Sanford School of Public Policy, Durham NC

Objectives

Understand the changes in performance of global marine reserves under climate change in terms of biomass

Steps

1.- Take the world’s MPA dataset

2.- Use both pre-industrial climatology and projected scenarios (2 runs) with fishing effort

3.- Compute the “temperature of emergence”

4.- Temperature by witch compound projected signal will emerge in each marine reserve

Repository structure

• Data, repository containing data needed for analysis

  • Spatial, related to spatial analysis

• Funtions, global functions needed for analysis

• Results, partial results from analysis

• Scripts, main analysis scripts

  • data_preparation.Rmd, works on the MPA shapefile
  • test_dbem_runs.Rmd, test runs in the MPA to make sure all is working