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Edges of opportunity: Tidal creek edge processes drive pioneer marsh vegetation establishment - Supporting data

  • Sarah Hautekiet (Creator)
  • Gregory Fivash (Creator)
  • Lauren Van Nimmen (Creator)
  • Ken Schoutens (Creator)
  • Jim van Belzen (Creator)
  • Oberon Geunens (Creator)
  • Wim Mertens (Creator)
  • Bart Vandevoorde (Creator)
  • Maarten G. Kleinhans (Creator)
  • Stijn Temmerman (Creator)

Dataset

Description

This dataset is related to the paper "Edges of opportunity: Tidal creek edge processes drive pioneer marsh vegetation establishment". The material includes the following:

Geospatial data (used for geospatial analysis)
DTMs (TIF format)
Water level data (CSV format)
Creek polygons (SHP format)
Distance to creeks (TIF format)
Tideskip (TIF format)
Vegetation map raster (TIF format) - for individual species (Vaucheria, Aster tripolium, Phragmites australis and Scirpus maritimus)
Vegetation map shp (SHP format) - for all species

Sediment properties and nutrient content
Manuscript
Contains the following data: dry bulk density, organic matter content, median grain size and fraction below 63 µm (CSV format)

Supporting information
Contains the following data: dry bulk density and water content (CSV format)
Nutrients: total N & P (CSV format)

Seed deposition and retention
Number of germinated seedlings obtained from seed deposition and seed retention, respectively (CSV format)

Seedling survival
Aster seedling survival data from a transplantation experiment (CSV format)

Shear strength
Surface sediment shear strength measured along transects (CSV format)

Version

v1
Date made available1-Jul-2026
Publisherzenodo

Taxonomic list

  • higher plants (Plantae)
  • Vaucheria
  • Aster tripolium
  • Phragmites australis
  • Scirpus maritimus

Free keywords

  • pioneer marsh

VODS 2023

  • Community ecology
  • Plant ecology

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