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Food fraud vulnerability assessment data (on spice/ginger and wine)
<p>The dataset includes the results of food fraud vulnerability assessments (on spice/ginger and wine) of various companies based in China and Europe. The data form part of WP3 (Task 3.2): <em>Implementation of innovations in food authenticity. </em>The data is generated to better understand the food fraud vulnerability within selected food chains. The data is useful for anyone working in the field of food authentication.</p>
Assessment of vulnerability to climate change of coastal communities in the Gulf of California and the Yucatan Peninsula: vulnerability outputs
<p>The dataset includes the outputs of the project: "Assessment of vulnerability to climate change of coastal communities in the Gulf of California and the Yucatan Peninsula: vulnerability outputs" funded by the David and Lucille Packard Foundation and awarded to H. Reyes-Bonilla (UABCS). </p> <p>This study analyzed vulnerability of fisheries-dependent coastal communities based on three components: a) adaptive capacity (84 indicators), which reflect the ability of a community to respond and recover after adverse events; b) susceptibility (11 indicators) which was determined based on fishing dependence; and c) exposure (31 indicators) that was evaluated with current environmental data. Future vulnerability was determined for a 2050 horizon and based on two climate change scenarios: SSP126, which represents low emissions, and SSP585, which takes into consideration that the amount of greenhouse gases will continue to increase. These data come from the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project 6 (CMIP6), which serves as the basis for the 6th IPCC report. We evaluated vulnerability using indicators what were available at the local scale.</p>
Dataset: Physical Vulnerability Database for Critical Infrastructure Hazard Risk Assessments
<p>The Physical Vulnerability Database for Critical Infrastructure Hazard Risk Assements is a database that contains fragility and vulnerability curves that can be used to evaluate the expected or potential damages to infrastructure assets due to flooding, earthquakes, windstorms and landslides. The database consists of three Excel-spreadsheets:</p> <ul> <li><em>Table_D1_Summary_CI_Vulnerability_Data:</em> summary table with information on hazard, exposure, and vulnerability characteristics as well as a number of details regarding reliability and reference purposes.</li> <li><em>Table_D2_Hazard_Fragility_and_Vulnerability Curves:</em> collection of fragility and vulnerability curves</li> <li><em>Table_D3_Costs:</em> cost values that can be used in combination with the curves for the estimation of asset damages</li> </ul> <p>Please consult the following publication for detailed information: Nirandjan, S., Koks, E. E., Ye, M., Pant, R., van Ginkel, K. C. H., Aerts, J. C. J. H., and Ward, P. J.: Review article: Physical Vulnerability Database for Critical Infrastructure Multi-Hazard Risk Assessments – A systematic review and data collection, Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci. Discuss. [preprint], https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-2023-208, in review, 2024.</p>
DATASETS and OUTCOMES - Assessment of intrinsic aquifer vulnerability at continental scale through a critical application of the DRASTIC method: the case of South America
<p>A robust and comprehensive assessment of intrinsic aquifer vulnerability at continental scale map may represent an essential initial step towards a more sustainable land-use and water management.</p> <p>This repository contains the outcomes of an intrinsic aquifer vulnerability assessment of South America, performed by the DRASTIC method. The assets included in this repository are mainly raster maps (.tif, .geotif), created and georeferenced in QGIS (v3.16). Coordinate reference system (CRS) of the dataset is WGS84.</p> <p>Technical specifications of all graphical outcomes are stored in a dedicated file (README.txt).</p>
Assessment of the Vulnerability of Permafrost Carbon to Climate Change: A Sensitivity Analysis among Models
This activity is a comparison of how large-scale models represent permafrost carbon dynamics into the future (2010-2299). Model responses were evaluated at several temporal scales. To the extent possible, we standardized driver data and simulation procedures among the models. However, the protocol has been set up so that each model can build upon the procedures used to produce the outputs for historical analysis (1960- 2009) that was published in McGuire et al. 2016 (Global Biogeochemical Cycles 30:1015-1037, doi:10.1002/2016GB005405). Note that this comparison is an offline model comparison in which we assessed the sensitivity of the responses of the models to somewhat standardized forcing data. The activity compared among the models: Carbon dynamics: Predictions of average annual C fluxes (GPP, NPP, RH, CH4 fluxes, disturbance-related emissions, dissolved organic carbon export, lateral land used fluxes, etc.) and major pools for the northern permafrost region for the 2010-2299 period. Soil thermal dynamics: Predictions of annual soil thermal and hydrological dynamics at prescribed depths and the maximum annual active layer depth (in permafrost locations) for the 2010-2299 time period. The spatial simulation data for this project are are available through the National Snow and Ice Data Center (doi: 10.5067/ZRL5WJKN01XM).
An empirical social vulnerability map for flood risk assessment at global scale ('GlobE-SoVI')
<p>These data were produced as part of the study "An empirical social vulnerability map for flood risk assessment at global scale ('GlobE-SoVI')" (in press in Earth's Future, https://doi.org/10.1029/2023EF003895). We provide raster data at 30 arc seconds spatial resolution (folder 'raster') and vector and table data per administrative unit (folder 'admin') of five social vulnerability variables and the final Global Empirical Social Vulnerability Index (GlobE-SoVI) calculated from the five variables. Please see 'overview_table.pdf' for names and units.</p> <p>The code for data processing and analysis is available at https://github.com/lena-reimann/GlobE-SoVI (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10671539).</p>
Assessing the vulnerability of plant functional trait strategies to climate change
<p><strong><span>Aim: </span></strong><span>Our ability to understand how species may respond to changing climate conditions is hampered by a lack of high-quality data on the adaptive capacity of species. Plant functional traits are linked to many aspects of species life history and adaptation to environment, with different combinations of trait values reflecting alternate strategies for adapting to varied conditions. If the realised climate limits of species can be partially explained by plant functional trait combinations, then a new approach of using trait combinations to predict the expected climate limits of species trait combinations may offer considerable benefits. </span></p> <p><strong><span>Location:</span></strong><span> Australia.</span></p> <p><span><strong>Time period:</strong> </span><span>Current and future. </span></p> <p><strong><span>Methods:</span></strong><span><strong> </strong>Using trait data for leaf size, seed mass and plant height for 6,747 Australian native species from 27 plant families, we model the expected climate limits of trait combinations and use future climate scenarios to estimate climate change impacts based on plant functional trait strategies. </span></p> <p><strong><span>Results:</span></strong><span><strong> </strong>Functional trait combinations were a significant predictor of species climate niche metrics with potentially meaningful relationships with two rainfall variables (R<sup>2</sup> = 0.36 & 0.45) and three temperature variables (R<sup>2</sup> = 0.21, 0.28, 0.30). Using this method, the proportion of species exposed to conditions across their range that are beyond the expected climate limits of their trait strategies will increase under climate change. </span></p> <p><strong><span>Main conclusions:</span></strong><span><strong> </strong>Our new approach, called Trait Strategy Vulnerability, includes three new metrics. For example, the Climate Change Vulnerability (CCV) metric identified a small but important proportion of species (4.3%) that will on average be exposed to conditions beyond their expected limits for summer temperature in the future. These potentially vulnerable species could be high priority targets for deeper assessment of adaptive capacity at the genomic or physiological level. Our methods can be applied to any suite of co-occurring plants globally.</span></p>
Assessment of risk and vulnerability to disasters by field protocols and classification trees: an analysis of the Municipal Risk Reduction Plans (MRRP) of São Bernardo do Campo and Franco da Rocha (2020-2021), in Brazil
<p><span>Most disaster risk assessment methodologies were developed by natural science professionals. The UN Sendai Framework confirms the need to include these methods as interweaving complex networks of socially vulnerable financial processes, especially in developing countries. This work aimed to analyze the experience of including social vulnerability information in field protocols of the Municipal Risk Reduction Plans (MRRP) of São Bernardo do Campo and Franco da Rocha (2020-2021). A georeferenced database was structured with data from field protocols on risk sectors and then the relationship between vulnerability and risk was analyzed using the classification tree method. The results show that the geotechnical and social vulnerability variables relevant to risk attribution are largely overlapping over the sectors, but that the integrated analysis of the two dimensions allows a better interpretation of the risk level. However, the models with information from field protocols cannot replace a broader holistic assessment by the specialist in the field. Finally, qualitative reflections are made on the limitations and potential of including aspects of vulnerability in the specific case study.</span></p>
Life on the edge: A new toolbox for population-level climate change vulnerability assessments
<p>Global change is impacting biodiversity across all habitats on earth. New selection pressures from changing climatic conditions and other anthropogenic activities are creating heterogeneous ecological and evolutionary responses across many species' geographic ranges. Yet we currently lack standardised and reproducible tools to effectively predict the resulting patterns in species vulnerability to declines or range changes.</p> <p>We developed an informatic toolbox that integrates ecological, environmental and genomic data and analyses (environmental dissimilarity, species distribution models, landscape connectivity, neutral and adaptive genetic diversity and Genotype-Environment Associations) to estimate population vulnerability. In our toolbox, functions and data structures are coded in a standardised way so that it is applicable to any species or geographic region where appropriate data are available, for example individual or population sampling and genomic datasets (e.g. RAD-seq, ddRAD-seq, whole genome sequencing data) representing environmental variation across the species geographic range.</p> <p>We apply our toolbox to a georeferenced genomic dataset for the East African spiny reed frog (<em>Afrixalus fornasini</em>) to predict population vulnerability, as well as demonstrating that range loss projections based on adaptive variation can be accurately reproduced using data for two European bat species (<em>Myotis escalerai</em>, and <em>M. crypticus</em>).</p> <p>Our framework sets the stage for large scale, multi-species genomic datasets to be leveraged in a novel climate change vulnerability framework to quantify intraspecific differences in genetic diversity, local adaptation, range shifts and population vulnerability based on exposure, sensitivity, and range shift potential.</p>
Life on the edge: A new toolbox for population-level climate change vulnerability assessments
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Assessing the vulnerability of plant functional trait strategies to climate change
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Interviews for community vulnerability and capacity assessment in France and Greece
<p>Transcripts of seven interviews, conducted in the context of task 2.3 of the PANTHEON project, to assess the vulnerability and capacity against disasters in civilian areas of the two focus regions Paris (France) and Athens (Greece). The respondents are with public organizations involved in risk management and first response during emergency situations. (Contact: forschung.wien@johanniter.at)</p>
Data from: Too much of a good thing? Supplementing current species observations with fossil data to assess climate change vulnerability via ecological niche models
<p>Ecological niche models (ENMs) are a powerful tool in ecological research and conservation planning. Since ENMs provide probability maps of suitable areas under environmental change, they may assist in designing conservation actions and addressing conservation priorities. However, ENMs are usually implemented by learning the species climatic preferences from their current geographic distribution, which leaves them vulnerable to the issue of niche truncation issues, as if comes with non-climatic limits to the current species distribution posed by e.g. anthropic activities and settlements, and is bound to assume that species are at equilibrium with their environments. These problems might be alleviated by the inclusion of fossil occurrences, which refer to moments during species evolution when such limits were absent, and a larger fraction of the species fundamental niche was probably explored. Here, we combined current and fossil occurrence data for 38 medium-large mammal species of conservation concern to assess the influence of the fossil record on ENM predictions under future climate change scenarios. We found that ignoring or including fossil data yields consistent trends in terms of predicted range increase/decrease. Yet, although adding fossil data invariably results in increased niche width, estimates of range change magnitude improved for just one half only of the species. These results suggest that most species might be in non-equilibrium with their environment, and that the inclusion of fossil data may be crucial to the better understanding of species climatic requirements, hence for designing effective conservation strategies. </p>
Genus level DNA sequence data for three genes (matK, rbcL, trnH-psbA) for the paper: A comprehensive, genus-level time-calibrated phylogeny of the tree flora of Mediterranean Europe and an assessment of its vulnerability
<p>This data file contains the consensus DNA sequences in fasta format, of 64 tree genera found in Mediterranean Europe, following the checklist of Médail et al. (2019). </p> <p>The data are used in a manuscript submitted for publication to Botany Letters and currently under revision. The manuscript is entitled: "<em>A comprehensive, genus-level time-calibrated phylogeny of the tree flora of Mediterranean Europe and an assessment of its vulnerability</em>". Its authors are: Marwan Cheikh Albassatneh, Marcial Escudero, Loic Ponge<sup>*</sup>, Anne-Christine Monnet, Juan Arroyo, Toni Nikolic, Gianluigi Bacchetta, Francesca Bagnoli, Panayotis Dimopoulos, Agathe Leriche, Frédéric Médail, Anne Roig, Ilaria Spanu, Giovanni Giuseppe Vendramin, Arndt Hampe, Bruno Fady.</p>
Data and code repository for the research "Assessing the use of Airborne Electromagnetic Data for nitrate vulnerability assessment in the Central Valley, California"
<p>Data and code for "Assessing the use of Airborne Electromagnetic Data for nitrate vulnerability assessment in the Central Valley, California". This repository contains the analysis and post-processing code for generating results and figures used in the manuscript.</p>
A standardized assessment of forest mammal communities reveals consistent functional composition and vulnerability across the tropics
<p class="MsoPlainText">Understanding global diversity patterns has benefitted from a focus on functional traits and how they relate to variation in environmental conditions among assemblages. Distant communities in similar environments often share characteristics, and for tropical forest mammals, this functional trait convergence has been demonstrated at coarse scales (110-200 km resolution), but less is known about how these patterns manifest at fine scales, where local processes (e.g., habitat features and anthropogenic activities) and biotic interactions occur. Here, we used standardized camera trapping data and a novel analytical method that accounts for imperfect detection to assess how the functional composition of terrestrial mammal communities for two traits – trophic guild and body mass – varies across 16 protected areas in tropical forests and three continents, in relation to the extent of protected habitat and anthropogenic pressures. We found that despite their taxonomic differences, communities generally have a consistent trophic guild composition, and respond similarly to these factors. Insectivores were found to be sensitive to the size of protected habitat and surrounding human population density. Body mass distribution varied little among communities both in terms of central tendency and spread, and interestingly, community average body mass declined with proximity to human settlements. Results indicate predicted trait convergence among assemblages at the coarse scale reflects consistent functional composition among communities at the local scale, suggesting that broadly similar habitats and selective pressures shaped communities with similar trophic strategies and responses to drivers of change. These similarities provide a foundation for assessing assemblages under anthropogenic threats and sharing conservation measures.Understanding global diversity patterns has benefitted from a focus on functional traits and how they relate to variation in environmental conditions among assemblages. Distant communities in similar environments often share characteristics, and for tropical forest mammals, this functional trait convergence has been demonstrated at coarse scales (110-200 km resolution), but less is known about how these patterns manifest at fine scales, where local processes (e.g., habitat features and anthropogenic activities) and biotic interactions occur. Here, we used standardized camera trapping data and a novel analytical method that accounts for imperfect detection to assess how the functional composition of terrestrial mammal communities for two traits – trophic guild and body mass – varies across 16 protected areas in tropical forests and three continents, in relation to the extent of protected habitat and anthropogenic pressures. We found that despite their taxonomic differences, communities generally have a consistent trophic guild composition, and respond similarly to these factors. Insectivores were found to be sensitive to the size of protected habitat and surrounding human population density. Body mass distribution varied little among communities both in terms of central tendency and spread, and interestingly, community average body mass declined with proximity to human settlements. Results indicate predicted trait convergence among assemblages at the coarse scale reflects consistent functional composition among communities at the local scale, suggesting that broadly similar habitats and selective pressures shaped communities with similar trophic strategies and responses to drivers of change. These similarities provide a foundation for assessing assemblages under anthropogenic threats and sharing conservation measures.</p>
Magnitude-duration relationships of physiological sensitivity and environmental exposure improve climate change vulnerability assessments
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Integrating thermal physiology with environmental temperature is essential to understanding distributions of species and vulnerability to climate change. Warming tolerance—the difference between an organism's maximum thermal tolerance (T<sub>max</sub>) and maximum habitat temperature (T<sub>hab</sub>)—is frequently used to integrate organismal sensitivity and environmental exposure. Traditionally, applications of warming tolerance define T<sub>max</sub> and T<sub>hab</sub> as invariable magnitudes, yet tolerance magnitude depends on exposure duration and diel temperature cycles expose organisms to a range of temperature magnitudes and durations. How traditional (<em>i.e.</em>, acute) estimates of warming tolerance compare to estimates from prolonged exposures remains poorly understood. In this study, magnitude-duration curves for tolerances of one cold-water, two cool-water, and one warm-water species of freshwater fish were compiled from the literature and compared to magnitude-duration exposures from 66 streams across the eastern United States. Warming tolerances were estimated for exposure durations spanning 0.01 to 24 hours. Current acute (0.01 hours) warming tolerances ranged from median 6.30°C for the cold-water species to 9.68°C for the warm-water species. The lowest warming tolerances corresponded to prolonged exposures lasting median 3.85 to 5.30 hours among species and were 2.51 to 4.38°C lower than acute estimates. Although acute estimates remained positive in historically occupied and unoccupied streams (6.30°C versus 2.33°C), estimates based on prolonged exposure were positive at occupied streams of the cold-water species but transitioned to negative in unoccupied streams (2.19°C versus -1.12°C). Acute warming tolerances for the cold-water species also remained positive under future climate (6.29 to 4.23°C) but approached zero at prolonged durations (2.19 to 0.09°C) and transitioned to negative for 47.2% of streams. Results demonstrate that acute measures of T<sub>max</sub> and T<sub>hab</sub> overestimate warming tolerances and therefore underestimate climate change vulnerability. Integrating magnitude-duration relationships into warming tolerance estimates can elucidate physiological mechanisms underlying species distributions and can improve accuracy of climate change vulnerability assessments.</span></p>
Data from: Too much of a good thing? Supplementing current species observations with fossil data to assess climate change vulnerability via ecological niche models
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Magnitude-duration relationships of physiological sensitivity and environmental exposure improve climate change vulnerability assessments
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Data from: Impact assessment of the Australian 2019-20 megafires on roost sites of the vulnerable grey-headed flying-fox (Pteropus poliocephalus)
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