. 2020 Apr 3;10:5865. doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-62639-y

Table 1.

Environmental and biological drivers, and sediment parameters.

Site	Environmental and Biological drivers					Sediment parameters
Site	Seagrass species and number of cores sampled in brackets	Seagrass cover (%)	Meadow type	Turbidity level	Distance to mangroves (m)	<63 µm (%)		DBD (g cm⁻³)		C_org (%)	δ¹³C (‰)		C_org stocks (mg C_org cm⁻³)
Redcliffe	Z. muelleri (1); H. ovalis (1); H. decipiens (1)	0–1	patchy	high	140–140	80.17	85.19	0.38	0.87	2.81 6.01	−26.00	−24.46	12.91	52.16
Black Swan	Z. muelleri (3)	0–10	patchy	high	200–300	27.82	75.92	0.86	1.48	0.87 2.92	−25.67	−24.72	11.26	35.58
Fishermans Landing	Z. muelleri (2); H. ovalis (1)	0–1	patchy	medium	515–565	47.16	85.47	0.82	1.47	0.44 2.51	−25.37	−23.32	4.60	25.11
Channel Islands	Z. muelleri (3)	5–20	patchy	medium	100–200	8.29	35.60	1.25	2.97	0.28 2.03	−25.09	−22.51	4.55	31.81
Wiggins Island	Z. muelleri (3)	0–10	patchy	high	610–680	50.62	73.73	0.90	1.45	0.19 0.99	−24.10	−22.99	2.08	10.79
Grahams Creek	H. decipiens (3)	0–5	patchy	high	35–35	56.37	93.92	0.71	1.04	1.50 4.55	−26.20	−25.29	11.61	33.84
Pelican Banks South 1	Z. muelleri (3)	0–15	continuous	medium	3500–3500	9.49	12.47	1.38	2.12	0.39 1.45	−22.07	−20.90	7.07	21.62
Pelican Banks South 2	Z. muelleri (2); H. ovalis (1)	10–20	continuous	medium	3400–3400	7.73	11.56	1.37	1.93	0.37 2.08	−21.83	−19.11	5.21	34.57
Pelican Banks North 1	Z. muelleri (3)	30–65	continuous	low	1230–1230	13.69	16.55	1.13	1.83	0.44 1.03	−19.99	−18.51	5.96	17.15
Pelican Banks North 2	Z. muelleri (3)	45–70	continuous	low	1120–1120	15.02	18.43	1.06	1.63	0.39 1.17	−19.44	−18.61	5.65	12.41
Facing Island	Z. muelleri (2); H. ovalis (1)	0–5	patchy	medium	3255–3280	7.45	28.87	1.25	1.91	0.24 1.42	−23.35	−19.87	4.47	19.67
Pelican Banks North 3	Z. muelleri (3)	57–60	continuous	low	1950–1950	9.91	16.11	1.33	1.75	0.3 1.72	−19.17	−18.32	4.70	24.86
South Trees	Z. muelleri (3)	0–1	variable	medium	150–250	5.96	17.71	1.12	1.95	0.18 1.57	−24.11	−20.44	3.49	17.52
Boyne Island	H. uninervis (3)	2–10	variable	medium	1000–1025	3.16	3.45	1.07	3.08	0.08 0.25	−22.89	−20.43	1.06	3.68
South Facing Island	Z. muelleri (3)	0–10	variable	medium	250–250	12.50	17.35	1.45	2.54	0.09 1.41	−21.99	−20.40	1.30	22.18

A total of 45 cores were collected in 15 sites along the estuary. For summary purposes data is shown per site but cores are treated independently on the spatial GLS models applied. Data show ranges of minimum and maximum values or category of each variable.