Data from: Unexpected system-wide resilience of Australian coral reefs to recent heatwaves and cyclones

This data examines our standardized monitoring of 476 reef sites spanning
Australian waters (>5,000 km) from 2008 to 2024 despite local reef
volatility. Sites were censused using the Reef Life Survey
methodology within the period 21 March 2008 to 17 Dec 2024. Site initial
and final sampling dates spanned 7.2 years on average, with 91% of sites
assessed both before and after the extreme March 2016 heatwave. A total of
48 sites were surveyed across the southern Great Barrier Reef and Coral
Sea in November and December 2024, thus capturing mortality from the
severe March 2024 bleaching event. Data was analysed in R using Random
Forests methodology and based on the CSV file. Complementary to this was a
Baysian Network model (developed in Netica, www.norsys.com) which showed
similar results but highlights that the partition of factors is
informative. Both models are included. The compiled Bayesian Network model
can be examined in the freely downloaded software from Norsys.