This project assessed how climate change will impact the distribution of three key species of sea urchins in the Western Atlantic. This was done through SDMs produced using LGCP models under a Bayesian framework. For more details, reader is referred to the publication “A thorny future for sea urchins in the Tropical Western Atlantic” (under review). All codes and data used in the study are available in this folder, except original climatic layers, which are available online.
An interactive version of the results of this work is availabe at silasprincipe.github.io/herbinv
data: all data used in the study
– env: environmental data
– lyva: Lytechinus variegatus data
– eclu: Echinometra lucunter data
– trve: Tripneustes ventricosus data
– sst_limits: SST data for the thermal limits part codes: all
codes used in the study
functions: all functions that were used either directly or as
support in the study gis: shapefiles
- data_*: data download and preparing
- prep_*: prepare data (environmental variables)
- lgcp_prepare_data: prepare all data necessary for fitting the LGCP model through INLA
- lgcp_model_*: models for each species
- plot_*: produce figures
- sst_*: codes used for producing the mechanistic model or for estimating thermal limits
- supp_*: supplementary analysis
- Species Distribution Modeling of reef building coral species of the Western Atlantic: silasprincipe/reefbuilders
Please, contact us if you have any questions on how to use the codes.