Climate change adaptation related to structural parameters of coastal vegetation

[Description of methods used for collection/generation of data] Collection of data from extraction of articles retrieved from the literature (Web of Knowledge and SCOPUS, accessed July 2015 and updated May 2021). Papers reporting estimates of the effect of coastal plants on current and wave attenuation in vegetated coastal habitats identified using search terms: “Seagrass*” [All Fields] OR “Mangrove*” [All Fields] OR “Salt marsh*” [All Fields] OR “Macrophyte*” [All Fields] AND “engine*” [All Fields] OR “wave attenuation” [All Fields] OR “flow modification” [All Fields]. The in total 963 papers retrieved were analyzed for quantitative estimates, supplemented with papers and documents containing data meeting the requirements of the analyses contained within the references of the papers retrieved, resulting in a data set containing a total of 1372 estimates derived from 95 individual articles with a temporal cover from 1982 to 2020.