Global dataset of soil organic carbon in tidal marshes

Maxwell, Tania L.; Rovai, André S.; Adame, Maria Fernanda; Adams, Janine B.; Álvarez-Rogel, José; Austin, William E.N.; Beasy, Kim; Boscutti, Francesco; Böttcher, Michael E.; Bouma, Tjeerd J.; Bulmer, Richard H.; Burden, Annette ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7694-1638; Burke, Shannon A.; Camacho, Saritta; Chaudhary, Doongar R.; Chmura, Gail L.; Copertino, Margareth; Cott, Grace M.; Craft, Christopher; Day, John; de los Santos, Carmen B.; Denis, Lionel; Ding, Weixin; Ellison, Joanna C.; Ewers Lewis, Carolyn J.; Giani, Luise; Gispert, Maria; Gontharet, Swanne; González-Pérez, José A.; González-Alcaraz, M. Nazaret; Gorham, Connor; Graversen, Anna Elizabeth L.; Grey, Anthony; Guerra, Roberta; He, Qiang; Holmquist, James R.; Jones, Alice R.; Juanes, José A.; Kelleher, Brian P.; Kohfeld, Karen E.; Krause-Jensen, Dorte; Lafratta, Anna; Lavery, Paul S.; Laws, Edward A.; Leiva-Dueñas, Carmen; Loh, Pei Sun; Lovelock, Catherine E.; Lundquist, Carolyn J.; Macreadie, Peter I.; Mazarrasa, Inés; Megonigal, J. Patrick; Neto, Joao M.; Nogueira, Juliana; Osland, Michael J.; Pagès, Jordi F.; Perera, Nipuni; Pfeiffer, Eva-Maria; Pollmann, Thomas; Raw, Jacqueline L.; Recio, María; Ruiz-Fernández, Ana Carolina; Russell, Sophie K.; Rybczyk, John M.; Sammul, Marek; Sanders, Christian; Santos, Rui; Serrano, Oscar; Siewert, Matthias; Smeaton, Craig; Song, Zhaoliang; Trasar-Cepeda, Carmen; Twilley, Robert R.; Van de Broek, Marijn; Vitti, Stefano; Antisari, Livia Vittori; Voltz, Baptiste; Wails, Christy N.; Ward, Raymond D.; Ward, Melissa; Wolfe, Jaxine; Yang, Renmin; Zubrzycki, Sebastian; Landis, Emily; Smart, Lindsey; Spalding, Mark; Worthington, Thomas A.. 2023 Global dataset of soil organic carbon in tidal marshes. Scientific Data, 10 (1), 797. 14, pp. 10.1038/s41597-023-02633-x

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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02633-x

Abstract/Summary

Tidal marshes store large amounts of organic carbon in their soils. Field data quantifying soil organic carbon (SOC) stocks provide an important resource for researchers, natural resource managers, and policy-makers working towards the protection, restoration, and valuation of these ecosystems. We collated a global dataset of tidal marsh soil organic carbon (MarSOC) from 99 studies that includes location, soil depth, site name, dry bulk density, SOC, and/or soil organic matter (SOM). The MarSOC dataset includes 17,454 data points from 2,329 unique locations, and 29 countries. We generated a general transfer function for the conversion of SOM to SOC. Using this data we estimated a median (± median absolute deviation) value of 79.2 ± 38.1 Mg SOC ha−1 in the top 30 cm and 231 ± 134 Mg SOC ha−1 in the top 1 m of tidal marsh soils globally. This data can serve as a basis for future work, and may contribute to incorporation of tidal marsh ecosystems into climate change mitigation and adaptation strategies and policies.

Item Type:	Publication - Article
Digital Object Identifier (DOI):	10.1038/s41597-023-02633-x
UKCEH and CEH Sections/Science Areas:	Soils and Land Use (Science Area 2017-)
ISSN:	2052-4463
Additional Information. Not used in RCUK Gateway to Research.:	Open Access paper - full text available via Official URL link.
Additional Keywords:	carbon cycle, geochemistry
NORA Subject Terms:	Ecology and Environment Agriculture and Soil Science Data and Information
Related URLs:	Dataset
Date made live:	14 Dec 2023 11:38 +0 (UTC)
URI:	https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/536475

Item Type:

Publication - Article

Digital Object Identifier (DOI):

10.1038/s41597-023-02633-x

UKCEH and CEH Sections/Science Areas:

Soils and Land Use (Science Area 2017-)

ISSN:

2052-4463

Additional Information. Not used in RCUK Gateway to Research.:

Open Access paper - full text available via Official URL link.

Additional Keywords:

carbon cycle, geochemistry