All code and outputs to support the analyses in Chaplin-Kramer et al.'s "Mapping the planet's critical natural assets" are included here. Suggested citation: Chaplin-Kramer, R., Neugarten, R.A., Sharp, R.P. et al. Mapping the planet’s critical natural assets. Nat Ecol Evol (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-022-01934-5
The "data" folder contains the masks and underlying data for Nature's Contributions to People (NCP) for which authors have given permission to post publicly. The remaining data inputs can be obtained from the data providers listed below.
The "publication-figures" contain pdf files of all the figures in the manuscript published in Nature Ecology & Evolution. Note: axis labels for Fig 2b were truncated in the version published online; here they appear in full.
The "R" folder contains all code to prepare and run the optimizations, along with a readme describing how the different scripts are used. Code not mentioned in the readme is not essential to the main analysis.
The "solutions" folder contains the results of all the optimizations, and a readme explaining the naming convention of these files.
The component "Local and global critical natural assets" contains the file used to make Figs. 1 and 3 (and Extended Data Fig. 4) in Chaplin-Kramer et al., mapping local and global optimization solutions and their overlaps.
Data providers:
Rebecca Chaplin-Kramer (rchaplin@umn.edu) and Rich Sharp (rich@springinnovate.org)
- coastal risk reduction
- nature access
- nitrogen retention
- pollination
- sediment retention
Mark Mulligan (mark.mulligan@kcl.ac.uk)
- timber production
- flood mitigation
- fuelwood
- grazing
Peter McIntyre (pmcintyre777@gmail.com) and Etienne Fluet-Chouinard (efluet@stanford.edu)
- riverine fish
Reg Watson (rwatson@ecomarres.com)
- marine fish production
Mark Spalding (mspalding@tnc.org)
- reef tourism
Monica Noon (mnoon@conservation.org)
- terrestrial ecosystem carbon storage
Pat Keys (pkeys@rams.colostate.edu)
- vegetation-regulated atmospheric moisture recycling
Patrick Roehrdanz (proehrdanz@conservation.org)
- vertebrate biodiversity*
Larry Gorenflo (ljg11@psu.edu)
- linguistic diversity*
(* not included in critical natural asset optimizations, but used in subsequent analyses)
EEZs used in the optimization were obtained from:
Flanders Marine Institute (2020). Union of the ESRI Country shapefile and the Exclusive Economic Zones (version 3). Available online at https://www.marineregions.org/. https://doi.org/10.14284/403.
