Climate exposure factors.

<p>Average climate exposure scores across all species (A) and results of sensitivity analysis for the effect of individual exposure factors on overall climate vulnerability (B).</p

Directional effect of climate change.

<p>Colors represent expected negative (red), neutral (tan), and positive (green) effects. Certainty in score is denoted by text font and text color: very high certainty (>95%, black, bold font), high certainty (90–95%, black, italic font), moderate certainty (66–90%, white or gray, bold font), low certainty (<66%, white or gray, italic font).</p

Logic rule for calculating overall species’ climate exposure and biological sensitivity.

<p>The scoring rubric is based on a logic model where a certain number of individual scores above a certain threshold are used to determine the overall climate exposure and overall biological sensitivity.</p

Map of Northeast U.S. Continental Shelf Large Marine Ecosystem.

<p>Map of Northeast U.S. Continental Shelf Large Marine Ecosystem.</p

Potential for a change in species distribution.

<p>Potential was calculated using a subset of sensitivity attributes. Colors represent low (green), moderate (yellow), high (orange) and very high (red) potential for a change in distribution. Certainty in score is denoted by text font and text color: very high certainty (>95%, black, bold font), high certainty (90–95%, black, italic font), moderate certainty (66–90%, white or gray, bold font), low certainty (<66%, white or gray, italic font).</p

Overall climate vulnerability score.

<p>For species names and functional groups see <a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0146756#pone.0146756.t001" target="_blank">Table 1</a>. Overall climate vulnerability is denoted by color: low (green), moderate (yellow), high (orange), and very high (red). Certainty in score is denoted by text font and text color: very high certainty (>95%, black, bold font), high certainty (90–95%, black, italic font), moderate certainty (66–90%, white or gray, bold font), low certainty (<66%, white or gray, italic font).</p

Biological sensitivity attributes.

<p>Average sensitivity attribute scores across all species (A) and results of sensitivity analysis for the effect of individual sensitivity attributes on overall climate vulnerability scores (B).</p