Table 2.

Importance of individual variables to predicting the carbon stock in the top 5 cm of the core. ∑AICω near 1 indicate high importance while those near zero have low importance

Model	∑AICω	Environmental variables only	∑AICω	Environmental and eelgrass variables
Meadow	0.77	%Silt-clay	0.82	Degree of sorting
	0.39	%N in sediment trap	0.74	Shoot density (/m2)
	0.28	Degree of sorting	0.44	%Silt-clay
	0.27	Tidal range (m)	0.16	Tidal range (m)
	0.25	Insolation (kW h/m2/day)	0.12	Growth (mg/shoot/day)
	0.22	Sediment trap mass (g)
Unvegetated	1.00	%Silt-clay		N/A
	0.22	Sediment trap mass (g)
	0.22	Tidal range (m)
	0.16	Relative wave energy