Data underlying the publication: "Using salt marshes for coastal protection: effective but hard to get where needed most"

This dataset contains the data obtained and utilized for the manuscript: Using salt marshes for coastal protection: effective but hard to get where needed most.<br>This study analyzed 20 years of vegetation and bathymetry maps along the Dutch Wadden Sea coast in combination with detailed process-based measurements at 5 locations during three years in order to understand where salt marshes form and what features determine their contribution to coastal protection value.<br>The field data includes wave data collected with OSSI wave loggers in marshes and mudflats fronting dikes, beach wrack elevation points on the dikes after storms, vegetation properties and marsh&amp;mudflat soil elevation.