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Coral Favorability: Managed Conditions - Guam

Metadata Updated: October 6, 2023

Managers have some ability to support healthy environmental conditions through strategic action at a local and regional scale, such as water quality. This layer synthesized spatial information for several managed conditions to create a relative score for how favorable a given location is for coral growth and survival.

Environmental conditions contributing to this layer included: chlorophyll-a concentration, fish and herbivore biomass, turbidity (Kd490), macroalgal cover, and ocean-based pollution. Covariation in these conditions was accounted for using principal component analysis (PCA) to form composite variables of conditions that have strong relationships with one another. The resulting principal components were averaged and scaled from 0 (worst) to 1 (best) to produce a coral favorability score for managed conditions. These data are provided for the island of Guam as a raster with a resolution of 1500 m.

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Metadata Date January 7, 2022
Metadata Created Date October 6, 2023
Metadata Updated Date October 6, 2023
Reference Date(s) November 3, 2021 (creation), November 3, 2021 (issued), November 3, 2021 (revision)
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Harvested from ioos

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Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Date January 7, 2022
Metadata Created Date October 6, 2023
Metadata Updated Date October 6, 2023
Reference Date(s) November 3, 2021 (creation), November 3, 2021 (issued), November 3, 2021 (revision)
Responsible Party USGS Western Geographic Science Center (WGSC) (Point of Contact)
Contact Email
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Lineage 2021-11-03T00:00:00Z OGC web services (WMS and WFS) enabled by PacIOOS via GeoServer. Original data from source provider may have been reformatted, reprojected, or adjusted in other ways to optimize these capabilities.
Metadata Language eng
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Spatial Data Service Type Open Geospatial Consortium Web Coverage Service (WCS)
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