Synthesis Version 1.6.0
Version Contents
This database contains tidal wetland soil carbon profiles and associated metadata. The data itself is housed in separate comma separated value (.csv) spreadsheets linked by common identifier attributes (study_id, site_id, and core_id).
Data Tables
CCN_methods.csv - Contains information on materials and methods broken down by study
CCN_sites.csv - Contains positional and descriptive information of the coring sites.
CCN_cores.csv - Contains positional and descriptive information on core locations.
CCN_depthseries.csv - Contains raw depth-series information for all cores.
CCN_species.csv - Contains information on the dominant plant species at coring locations.
CCN_impacts.csv - Contains information on the anthropogenic impacts at site or coring locations.
Metadata Tables
CCN_database_structure.html - Is a simplified, visual and interactive version of metadata.xml for display purposes.
CCN_study_citations.csv - Contains bibliographic information for publications and associated sources, which can be related to the database tables via study_id.
CCN_bibliography.bib - Contains bibliographic information for publications and sources associated with this database.
Version Updates
New Datasets
Lerberg et al. 2025
NRCS data
Corrections and Additions to previously synthesized datasets
- Saunders 2013: updated habitat for marsh cores incorrectly labeled as seagrass
- De_Iongh_et_al_1995, Agawin_et_al_1996, Townsend_and_Fonseca_1998, Holmer_et_al_2007, Van_Engeland_2010: Studies with NA depths in Fourqurean seagrass synthesis were provided with a depth interval note that these are surface samples, and the depth interval is unknown
- Lafratta_et_al_2018: c14 shell fragments assigned the same depth min and max
- Tully_et_al_2024: correction to reflect that all surface samples were taken for the depth interval 0-10cm
Note: some of these corrections grouped information from depth intervals into the same core (rightfully) when they had been previously treated as separate. This resulted in the slight reduction in core count observed.