Shapefiles showing the locations of long-term climate change refugia and hotspots identified in the FairSeas report "A Climate Resilient Path for Ireland's Marine Protected Areas Network"

Shapefiles created for the report "A Climate Resilient Path for Ireland’s Marine Protected Areas Network", an addendum chapter to "Revitalising Our Seas report: IdentifyingAreas of Interest for Marine Protected Area Designation in Irish Waters"

These shapefiles summarise long-term patterns that emerge from the spatial-meta analysis of physical-biogeochemical and species distribution modelling data, providing an overview of the distribution of climate change refugia and climate change hotspots across Ireland's National Marine Planning Framework between 2026 - 2069, and across the two emissions scenarios considered in the report (RCP4.5 and RCP8.5). 

Filenames refer to the specific analysis each set of shapefiles belong to: Benthic habitats, benthic megafauna, pelagic habitats, pelagic megafauna and forage fish. Details of the modelling datasets used in each of these analyses, the meta-analysis method and shapefile creation can be found in Annex A1 in the report "A Climate Resilient Path for Ireland’s Marine Protected Areas Network".