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Data in support of Court et al. 2025 - Rapid decline of Caspian Sea level threatens ecosystem integrity, biodiversity protection, and human infrastructure

Citation

Court, Rebecca and Goodman, Simon J. (2025) Data in support of Court et al. 2025 - Rapid decline of Caspian Sea level threatens ecosystem integrity, biodiversity protection, and human infrastructure. University of Leeds. [Dataset] https://doi.org/10.5518/1656¹

Dataset description

Data in support of Court et al. 2025. Rapid decline of Caspian Sea level threatens ecosystem integrity, biodiversity protection, and human infrastructure, published in Communications Earth and Environment April 10th 2025 , comprising GIS shape files for spatial resources generated or georeferenced in this study including: sea level decline scenarios, Caspian ecoregions, sturgeon habitat areas, and human infrastructure, plus text files of numerical results, satellite image files used in calculations of changes to water area, and files related to figures included in the paper. A Shiny app to support visualisation of the spatial data from the paper is available: https://chassall.shinyapps.io/CaspianShinyApp/

Keywords:	Caspian Sea, Climate change, Global warming, Central Asia, Caspian seal, Pusa caspica, sturgeon, risk assessment, cumulative impact, environmental governance, remote sensing, sea ice, ecosystem change
Divisions:	Faculty of Biological Sciences > School of Biology2
Related resources:	Location Type https://chassall.shinyapps.io/CaspianShinyApp/3 Dataset https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-025-02212-54 Publication https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/id/eprint/225417/5 Publication
Citation:	Court R., Lattuada M., Shumeyko N., Baimukanov M., Eybatov T., Kaidarova A., Mamedov E. V., Rustamov E., Tasmagambetova A., Prange M., Wilke T., Hassall C., Goodman S. J. (2025). Rapid decline of Caspian Sea level threatens ecosystem integrity, biodiversity protection, and human infrastructure. Communications Earth and Environment. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-025-02212-5
License:	Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
Date deposited:	11 Apr 2025 06:34
URI:	https://archive.researchdata.leeds.ac.uk/id/eprint/13956
Additional details Additional details Creators or authors: Creators ORCID Other ID Email Primary affiliation Primary affiliation ID Primary affiliation ID type Secondary affiliation Secondary affiliation ID Secondary affiliation ID type Court, Rebecca https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3247-25507 University of Leeds https://ror.org/024mrxd33 ror Goodman, Simon J. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4118-85758 University of Leeds https://ror.org/024mrxd33 ror Type of data: Dataset Publication date: 2025 Resource language: English Metadata language: English Publisher: University of Leeds Contact email: S.J.Goodman@leeds.ac.uk9 Last Modified: 05 Jun 2025 14:59

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Decline_scenario_maps.zip [20MB] 18 Decline_scenario_maps.zip [20MB] 19 Decline_scenario_maps.zip [20MB] 20 Security: Anyone File name: Decline_scenario_maps.zip21 Content type: Data Mime-Type: application/zip License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) File size: 20MB

Figures.zip [120MB] 22 Figures.zip [120MB] 23 Figures.zip [120MB] 24 Security: Anyone File name: Figures.zip25 Content type: Data Mime-Type: application/zip License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) File size: 120MB

GIS_Data.zip [69MB] 26 GIS_Data.zip [69MB] 27 GIS_Data.zip [69MB] 28 Security: Anyone File name: GIS_Data.zip29 Content type: Data Mime-Type: application/zip License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) File size: 69MB

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