Living Systematic Review based on: "A systematic review of marine macroalgal degradation: Toward a better understanding of macroalgal carbon sequestration potential"

This repository contains a dataset of all published degradation trajecotries of marine macroalgae/seaweed, compiled for the study:

“A Systematic Review of Marine Macroalgal Degradation: Toward a Better Understanding of Macroalgal Carbon Sequestration Potential.” DOI: 10.1111/jpy.70031

The original dataset includes 504 extracted estimates of macroalgal degradation compiled from published literature. Extracted data include measurements describing the degradation of macroalgal-derived biomaterials (including macroalgal tissue/wrack, particulate organic matter/particulate organic carbon (POM/POC), and dissolved organic carbon (DOC)). Associated metadata were also extracted for all studies (e.g. temperature, degradation habitat, macroalgal species).

This repository is maintained as a LIVING DATASET. New studies on macroalgal degradation continue to be published, and additional data will be incorporated into new files. Updates follow the same systematic search and data extraction protocol used in the original review.