Data for: Sixteen years of social and ecological dynamics reveal challenges and opportunities for adaptive management in sustaining the commons

This dataset contains ecological and social data of two communities in Karkar Island (PNG) collected by Prof. Joshua Cinner (and team) of James Cook University between 2001 and 2017.

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    Data Publication title Data for: Sixteen years of social and ecological dynamics reveal challenges and opportunities for adaptive management in sustaining the commons
  • Description

    This dataset contains ecological and social data of two communities in Karkar Island (PNG) collected by Prof. Joshua Cinner (and team) of James Cook University between 2001 and 2017.

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    • Descriptor

      The dataset includes ecological and social data collected in, and around, two coastal communities (Muluk and Wadau) in Karkar Island (PNG) across five intervals over 16 years. The ecological data contains estimates for structural complexity, coral cover, macro algae, epilithic algal matrix, and biomass estimates for key functional fish feeding groups (scrapers/excavators, grazers, browsers, macro-invertivores, micro-invertivores, piscivore-invertivores, piscivores, planktivores, and detritivores) at multiple sites and depths. The social data contains households responses of livelihood perceptions.

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      The dataset is available as three individual spreadsheets in comma-separated values (.csv) format. Full methodology available in the related publication from the link below.

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  • Keywords
    • social-ecological system
    • adaptive management
    • coral reef
    • customary management
    • ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies
  • Funding source
  • Research grant(s)/Scheme name(s)
    • CE140100020 - ARC Centres of Excellences
    • FT160100047 - Future Fellowships
    • DP0877905 - How can communities sustainably manage coral reefs?
    • DP110101540 - Linking social science and ecology to understand the vulnerability of coastal societies to changes in coral reef resources
  • Research themes
    Tropical Ecosystems, Conservation and Climate Change
    People and Societies in the Tropics
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  • Locations
    • Karkar Island, Papua New Guinea
    Data Locations

    Type Location Notes
    Attachment Fish Behavior.csv
    Attachment Livelihood.csv
    Attachment Biomass and Hard Coral.csv
    The Data Manager is: Joshua Cinner
    College or Centre ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies
    Access conditions Open: free access under license
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  • Data record size 100KB
  • Related publications
      Name Cinner, Joshua, Lau, Jacqueline, Bauman, Andrew, Feary, David, Januchowski-hartley, Fraser, Rojas, Cristian, Barnes, Michele, Bergseth, Brock, Shum, Edith, Lahari, R., Ben, J., and Graham, N. A. J. (2019) Sixteen years of social and ecological dynamics reveal challenges and opportunities for adaptive management in sustaining the commons. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 116. pp. 26474-26483.
    • URL https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1914812116
    • Notes Open Access
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    Citation Cinner, Joshua (2019): Data for: Sixteen years of social and ecological dynamics reveal challenges and opportunities for adaptive management in sustaining the commons. James Cook University. https://doi.org/10.25903/5dbfb1d52fdc8