Resistance of Australian fish communities to drought and flood: implications for climate change and adaptations

Climate change induced extreme weather are dynamic in location, timing, and magnitude of rainfall and can alter how species respond to their environment. Extreme weather like droughts are now being seen as coupled to flooding when rainfall returns. Unfortunately, it is difficult to understand how ecological communities respond to the combination of drought and floods together. In the associated study we hypothesized that native organisms have evolved resistance to withstand repeated cycles of drought-flood disturbances, and that established non-native species have adapted to persist in novel conditions.
To test our hypothesis, we fit a geostatistical model of species occurrence with spatiotemporal local rainfall patterns as covariates in the drought and flood impacted Murray-Darling basin in Australia. The time range of this dataset included the decade long Millenium Drought, and its recovery period. During these drought conditions, river-floodplain organisms in the Murray-Darling becam..., , , # Dataset for Resistance of Australian fish communities to drought and flood: implications for climate change and ecological memory

[https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.2547d7x05](https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.2547d7x05)

Dataset includes rainfall and river classification data used in the GIS steps of the analysis. Two rds files are also included to run the R code and analysis. A separate shapefile labeled mdb_boundary refers to the Murray Darling Basin boundary used in the R mapping. Since the GIS portion was done using QGIS the methods are not completely reproducible unless that software is installed (see below). The minimal reproducible component for the R script Data-Analysis should be possible given the post-GIS-processed data. Data and code analyzing fish response to extreme drought and flood in Australia's Murray Darling Basin.

## Description of the data and file structure

* MDB_ANAE (Directory)
* contains shapefiles (.dbf, .prj, .shx) to be used in QGIS or other mapping software...