Australian vegetated coastal ecosystems as global hotspots for climate change mitigation

Data on C stocks and sequestration rates in Australian tidal marshes, mangrove forests and seagrass meadows were compiled from published data. In addition, unpublished studies from the CSIRO Marine and Coastal Carbon Biogeochemistry Cluster project and other studies by the co-authors were included. Data from 1,553 study sites (593 from tidal marshes, 323 from mangrove forests and 637 from seagrass meadows) on soil C stocks (1,103 cores in total), soil C sequestration rates (352 cores in total) and standing C stocks in aboveground biomass (98 measurements in total) were used in this study. Detailed methods are provided in the manuscript linked to this dataset. | Associated Persons Paul Donaldson (Creator); Matthew A. Hayes (Creator); Shing Yip Lee (Creator); Paul Lavery (Creator)Oscar Serrano (Contributor); Catherine Lovelock (Contributor); Trisha Atwood (Contributor); Peter Macreadie (Contributor); Robert Canto (Contributor); Stuart Phinn (Contributor); Ariane Arias-Ortiz (Contributor); Le Bai (Contributor); Jeff Baldock (Contributor); Camila Bedulli (Contributor); Paul Carnell (Contributor); Rod Connolly (Contributor); Alba Esteban (Contributor); Carolyn J. Ewers Lewis (Contributor); Brad Eyre (Contributor); Pierre Horwitz (Contributor); Lindsay Hutley (Contributor); Christopher Kavazos (Contributor); Jeffrey Kelleway (Contributor); Anna Lafratta (Contributor); Damien Maher (Contributor); Núria Marbà (Contributor); Pere Masque (Contributor); Miguel A. Mateo (Contributor); Richard Mount (Contributor); Peter Ralph (Contributor); Christiaan Roelfsema (Contributor); Mohammad Rozaimi (Contributor); Radhiyah Ruhon (Contributor); Cristian Salinas (Contributor); Jimena Samper-Villarreal (Contributor); Jonathan Sanderman (Contributor); Christian Sanders (Contributor); Isaac Santos (Contributor); Chris Sharples (Contributor); Andy Steven (Contributor); Toni Cannard (Contributor); Stacey Trevathan-Tackett (Contributor); Carlos Duarte (Contributor)