Table 1.
Exposure factors and scoring criteria used in assessing climate vulnerabilities of 108 marine mammal stocks in the western North Atlantic, Gulf of Mexico, and Caribbean Sea.
Table 2.
Sensitivity attributes and scoring criteria used to assess climate vulnerabilities of 108 marine mammal stocks in the western North Atlantic, Gulf of Mexico, and Caribbean Sea.
Table 3.
Data quality score definitions used in the climate vulnerability assessment of 108 marine mammal stocks in the western North Atlantic, Gulf of Mexico, and Caribbean Sea.
Table 4.
Values used in the NOAA climate change web portal to generate climate exposure maps for 108 marine mammal stocks in the western North Atlantic, Gulf of Mexico, and Caribbean Sea.
Table 5.
Logic model used to convert attribute and factor scores to component scores.
Table 6.
Response variable ordination used in climate vulnerability assessment of 108 stocks of marine mammals from the western North Atlantic, Gulf of Mexico, and Caribbean Sea.
Fig 1.
Climate vulnerability matrix showing the number of marine mammal stocks for each sensitivity-exposure score combination.
Climate vulnerability is represented by cell color (green = low vulnerability, yellow = moderate vulnerability, orange = high vulnerability, red = very high vulnerability). Numbers indicate the number of stocks that scored in each sensitivity/exposure combination.
Fig 2.
Climate vulnerability, exposure, and sensitivity by taxonomic group.
Climate vulnerability, exposure, and sensitivity of U.S. marine mammal stocks in the western North Atlantic, Gulf of Mexico, and Caribbean Sea by taxonomic group. Note the different scales on the horizontal axis between taxonomic groups.
Fig 3.
Exposure factor mean scores for all scored stocks.
Exposure factor mean scores for 108 U.S. marine mammal stocks in the western North Atlantic, Gulf of Mexico, and Caribbean Sea. The vertical bar represents the median; the box is bounded by the first and third quartiles; whiskers represent 1.5 times the inter-quartile range; points represent all outlying values.
Fig 4.
Leave-one-out sensitivity analysis for exposure factors.
Leave-one-out sensitivity analysis showing how many marine mammal stocks changed climate vulnerability score when a given exposure factor was omitted. Only ocean pH (change in mean), dissolved oxygen (change in mean), air temperature (change in mean), and sea surface temperature (change in mean) changed vulnerability scores when omitted.
Fig 5.
Sensitivity attribute mean scores for all scored stocks.
Sensitivity attribute mean scores for 108 U.S. marine mammal stocks in the western North Atlantic, Gulf of Mexico, and Caribbean Sea. The vertical bar represents the median; the box is bounded by the first and third quartiles; whiskers represent 1.5 times the inter-quartile range; points represent all outlying values.
Fig 6.
Leave-one-out sensitivity analysis for sensitivity attributes.
Leave-one-out sensitivity analysis showing how many marine mammal stocks changed climate vulnerability score when a given sensitivity attribute was omitted. Home range did not change any vulnerability scores when omitted.
Fig 7.
Mean exposure factor data quality scores.
Mean data quality scores of climate exposure factors for 108 marine mammal stocks in the western North Atlantic, Gulf of Mexico, and Caribbean Sea. The vertical bar represents the median; the box is bounded by the first and third quartiles; whiskers represent 1.5 times the inter-quartile range; points represent all outlying values.
Fig 8.
Mean sensitivity attribute data quality scores.
Mean data quality scores of climate sensitivity attributes for 108 marine mammal stocks in the western North Atlantic, Gulf of Mexico, and Caribbean Sea. The vertical bar represents the median; the box is bounded by the first and third quartiles; whiskers represent 1.5 times the inter-quartile range; points represent all outlying values.