Mary E. Hunsicker, Carrie V. Kappel, Kimberly A. Selkoe, Benjamin S. Halpern, Courtney Scarborough, Lindley Mease, Alisan Amrhein. 2015. Characterizing driver-response relationships in marine pelagic ecosystems for improved ocean management. Ecological Applications.
Appendix S4 List of papers, study regions, drivers, stressors, metrics, ecological responses and estimated degree of non-linearity associated with each driver-response relationship included in the study.
Description of data files
Table S1.csv: The paper IDs and study regions of all peer-reviewed publications that met our selection criteria (see Methods) are presented here. The paper IDs match the references that provided in the literature cited for this supplement. Also shown here are the broad categories of drivers, metrics of drivers and ecological responses, individual responses (e.g. species), and degree of non-linearity of the relationships determined by effective degrees of freedom (EDF). L, Linear (EDF =1); WNL, Weakly Non-linear (EDF >1 and ≤2); HNL, Highly non-linear (EDF >2); NL, Non-linear, but no estimate of EDF. 1EDF reported in paper; 2EDF estimated from GAM fit to digitized raw data (see Methods), 3EDF estimated from GAM fit to digitized model predictions (see methods and Figure S1), 4No estimate of EDF. When applicable, shapes of HNL relationships were determined through expert consensus-based visual inspection: Sat = saturating, increasing, decreasing; Sig = sigmoid; Sing = single maximum and minimum; Spl = spline; Thr, threshold; NC = no consensus. Publications that were (were not) included in our subset of robust studies are indicated as “yes” (“no”) in the column labeled Subset. Total sample size = 728.
Table S1 Literature Cited.docx: Literature cited for peer-reviewed publications included in the database created in this study. The references are cross-referenced with Table S1.
Authors and Affiliations
Mary E. Hunsicker
University of California, Santa Barbara
National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis
Santa Barbara, California 93101 USA
Carrie V. Kappel
University of California, Santa Barbara
National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis
Santa Barbara, California 93101 USA
Kimberly A. Selkoe
University of California, Santa Barbara
National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis
Santa Barbara, California 93101 USA
Hawai'i Institute of Marine Biology
University of Hawai'i
Kāne'ohe, Hawai'i 97644 USA
Benjamin S. Halpern
University of California, Santa Barbara
National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis
Santa Barbara, California 93101 USA
University of California, Santa Barbara
Bren School of Environmental Science and Management
Santa Barbara, California 93106 USA
Imperial College London
Silwood Park Campus
Buckhurst Road, Ascot SL57PY, UK
Courtney Scarborough
University of California, Santa Barbara
National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis
Santa Barbara, California 93101 USA
Lindley Mease
Stanford University
Center for Ocean Solutions
Monterey Bay, California 93940 USA
Alisan Amrhein
University of California, Santa Barbara
Bren School of Environmental Science and Management
Santa Barbara, California 93106 USA
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