National Fish Habitat Partnership (NFHP) 2015 Cumulative Habitat Condition Scores and Disturbance Indices for Hawaii Linked to Catchments of the Hawai'i Fish Habitat Partnership Stream Layer

This shapefile contains cumulative fish habitat condition index (HCI) scores and specific disturbance indices for local and network stream catchments as well as the downstream main channel catchment of perennial and intermittent streams reaches of the five main island of Hawaii. In this dataset indices are linked to the Hawaii Fish Habitat Partnership (HFHP) stream layer (Tingley et al. in prep) which is a modified version of the 1:24,000 National Hydrography Dataset. It includes 11,436 intermittent and perennial stream reaches across the five main Hawaiian Islands (Hawaii, Maui, Molokai, Oahu, Kauai). Catchment attributes are available for both local catchments (defined as the land area draining directly to a reach; attributes begin with lc_ prefix) and upstream network catchments (defined by all upstream contributing catchments to the reachs outlet, including the reach's own local catchment; attributes begin with nc_ prefix). Downstream main channel variables for reaches are labeled using a dm_ prefix. Detailed methods for creation of disturbance indices as well as cumulative fish habitat condition index scores can be found on the following website: http://assessment.fishhabitat.org/.