See Methods of van Woesik and Kratochwill (2022; doi: 10.1038/s41597-022-01121-y)
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Briefly, data were collected from seven sources: 1) Reef Check (https://www.reefcheck.org/global-reef-tracker/), (2) Donner et al. (2017), (3) McClanahan et al. (2019), (4) AGRRA (https://www.agrra.org), (5) FRRP (https://ocean.floridamarine.org/FRRP/Home/Reports), (6) Safaie et al. (2018), and (7) Kumagai et al. (2018).\u00a0Site coordinates were standardized to decimal degrees using Google Earth. Coordinates were compared to ensure a sampling event was not duplicated across multiple data sources. Points were removed if they occurred on land or were more than 1 kilometer from a coral reef. Environmental and site data were added to each site, including reef site exposure, distance to land, mean turbidity, cyclone frequency, and CoRTAD Version 6 environmental data.
Data processing:
\nData were processed using Microsoft Access 2019, R, and QGIS.
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Known problems/issues:
\nThere were few data on coral bleaching before the 1998 bleaching event and most data were collected between 2015 and 2016.
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BCO-DMO Processing:
\nversion 1:
\n(date: 2019-07-18)
\n- renamed \"Latitude Degrees\" to \"Latitude_Degrees\";
\n- replaced blanks (no data) with \"nd\";
\n- removed special characters from place names;
\n- added \"Date2\" column with date formatted as yyyymmdd.
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version 2:
\n(date: 2022-10-14)
\n- created \"Date\" field from separate year, month, day columns;
\n- removed commas from: \"Ecoregion\", \"City_Town_Name\", \"Site_Name\";
\n- replaced commas with semi-colons in: \"Sample_Comments\", \"Site_Comments\";
\n- replaced or removed line breaks (\\n, \\r, <br>) and tabs (\\t) with spaces in: \"Sample_Comments\", \"Site_Comments\";
\n- replaced or removed non-printing characters;
\n- reordered fields (moved comments to the end for readability);
\n- rounded latitude, longitude, and turbidity columns to 4 decimal places;
\n- rounded all other numeric columns to 2 decimal places.