Planting after Shoreline Cleanup Treatment Improves Salt Marsh Vegetation Recovery Following the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill

Dataset contains information on vegetation and oiling metrics for plots representing different operational and experimental cleanup and restoration treatments for Deepwater Horizon oiled salt marshes in Barataria Bay, Louisiana. Each treatment consists of 5 sites measured once a year from 2013-2015. Treatments include reference sites, oiled control (not treated or planted) sites, mechanical treatment sites (not planted), and mechanical treatment and planted sites.