Bleaching and environmental data for global coral reef sites from 1980-2020

Abstract

These data include information on the presence and absence of coral bleaching, allowing comparative analyses and the determination of geographical bleaching thresholds, together with site exposure, distance to land, mean turbidity, cyclone frequency, and a suite of sea-surface temperature metrics at the times of survey.

For a complete list of measurements, refer to the full dataset description in the supplemental file 'Dataset_description.pdf'. The most current version of this dataset is available at: https://www.bco-dmo.org/dataset/773466