Data from: Local and global-scale soil nitrogen stocks and burial rates in mangroves

The primary objective of this work is to test the hypothesis that sedimentary and geomorphic settings explain much of the variability in mangrove soil N stocks and burial rates across the world’s mangroves, a concept with direct implications for nutrient removal and impetus for increased focus on co-benefits of blue nitrogen and blue carbon conservation strategies (e.g. ecosystem design features, wastewater treatment, restoration). We utilized a spatially-explicit global mangrove typology model combining sedimentary and geomorphic settings (SGS) following Worthington et al. (2020) to estimate and compare magnitudes and differences in total nitrogen (TN) stocks and burial rates. An SGS represents a pairing of sedimentary (carbonate, terrigenous) and geomorphic (delta, estuary, lagoon, open coast) settings.