Development of the coral index, a summary of coral reef resilience as a guide for management
This dataset provides all data utilised by the R code stored at the GitHub Repository 'Coral Index' (link below) that provides analysis and production of figures for the manuscript Thompson A, Martin K, Logan M (2020) Development of the coral index, a summary of coral reef resilience as a guide for management. Journal of Environmental Management (in press).
The dataset includes a series of .csv files: all.reef.csv: Benthic cover data and density of juvenile hard corals (<5 cm) extracted from the AIMS Long-term Monitoring Program and Marine Monitoring Program database.
discharge.annual.csv: River discharge data for rivers adjacent to the surveyed reefs sourced from the Queensland Government Water Monitoring Information Portal
bom.month.csv: Monthly mean estimates of water quality parameters derived from satellite observations download from the Bureau of Meteorology eReefs Marine Water Quality Dashboard
waterTemp.csv: Seawater temperature logger data from coral reef sites extracted from the AIMS Temperature logger database
genus_wq_scores.csv: a parameter developed by Thompson et al. 2014 based on the distribution of coral genera along a water quality gradient used for scoring the community composition indicator
gomp.acr.2.csv, gomp.acr.5.csv, gomp.oth.2.csv, gomp.oth.5.csv: distribution of predictions for annual rate of increase in cover of Acroporidae (acr) or other hard corals (oth) at 2 m and 5 m depths derived from gompertz growth equation models used for scoring the cover change indicator
MA.limits.csv: Reef level thresholds developed for scoring the macroalgae indicator
names.lookup.csv and temperature.lookup.csv: files that enable linking of data where unique locational identifiers differ among sources.
In combination these data are used to demonstrate use of an multi indicator index of reef resilience, to quantify the impacts of acute and chronic pressures on inshore coral reefs. These data represent a timepoint capture of ongoing monitoring programs.
Data and resources
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Thompson A, Martin K, Logan M. (2020) Development of the coral index, a summary of coral reef resilience as a guide for management. Journal of Environmental…HTML Open
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Data Download - Coral Index for Reef Resilience 15 csv files + 1 pdf + 1 word doc 2.47 MBZIP Open
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Thompson A, Lønborg C, Logan M, Costello P, Davidson J, Furnas M, Gunn K, Liddy M, Skuza M, Uthicke S, Wright M, Zagorskis I, and Schaffelke B (2014) Marine…HTML Open
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Reef Plan Monitoring Of Inshore Coral Reef Communities, Great Barrier Reef (RRMMP)HTML Open
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AIMS Sea Water Temperature Observing System (AIMS Temperature Logger Program)HTML Open
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Bureau of Meteorology eReefs Marine Water Quality catalogueHTML Open
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Queensland Government Water Monitoring Information PortalHTML Open
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AIMS Long-Term Monitoring Program: Video And Photo Transects (Great Barrier Reef)HTML Open
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GitHub Repository Coral Index https://github.com/AIMS/coralindex.gitHTML Open
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Additional information
| Date (revision) | 2026-10-25 |
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| Status | completed |
| Update frequency | notPlanned |
| Metadata language | en |
| License | Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 |
| Source metadata | ISO 19115 XML |
| Last updated | 2026-11-05 |
| Created | 2026-11-05 |
| API | package_show |