Resolving reef-scale flows and local dispersal reveals connectivity pathways critical for coral resilience and actionable management applications

Resolving reef-scale flows and local dispersal reveals connectivity pathways critical for coral resilience and actionable management applications Bensadon et al. General information Title of dataset Resolving reef-scale flows and local dispersal reveals connectivity pathways critical for coral resilience and actionable management applications URL of dataset 10.5281/zenodo.17247717 Abstract This study investigates coral reef connectivity in a fringing reeflagoon system in Ningaloo Reef, Northwestern Australia, using a fine-scale bio-physical model with network analysis. Keywords Coral reef, Connectivity, Biophysical model, Hydrodynamics, Network analysis, Ningaloo Reef Lead author for the dataset Sean Bensadon Organization and address of lead author UWA Oceans Institute and Ocean Graduate School The University of Western Australia, M004 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, WA, 6009 Email address of lead author [email protected] Additional authors or contributors to the dataset Bensadon, S. L., Grimaldi, C. M., Cuttler, M., Treml, E. A., Ross C. L., Lowe, R. J. Organization associated with the data University of Western Australia License This data is publicly available and free to use. Geographic location – verbal description Coral Bay, located in southern Ningaloo Reed in Northwestern Australia. Temporal coverage Annual mass coral spawning events from 1993 – 2022 Methods description Please refer to the methods description in the manuscript. Description of files included in the dataset: Dataset filename Dataset description Grid_SedTrailsFiles.py Python code to grid Delft3D-FM output to regular mesh grid for particle tracking FlowFM_sedtrails_gridded_2 020.nc Single-year SedTrails regular mesh grid file used in this study OceanParcels.py Python code used to run Ocean Parcels on yearly regular mesh SedTrails grid files release_locations_equal.csv Release locations for particles in Ocean Parcels particle tracking Connectivity_calculation.py Python code used to calculate connectivity transitions between reef patches from Ocean Parcels particle tracking output Migration_matrix_calculatio n.py Python code use to calculate migration matrices from transition matrices obtained from Connectivity_calculation.py code annual_migration_matrix_2 020.csv Single-year migration matrix