Coastal Wetland Redistribution Under Sea-Level Rise Across 48 New Zealand Estuaries

Supporting Information for a national-scale analysis of intertidal wetland persistence under sea-level rise scenarios. The data includes tidal frame parameters, habitat elevation thresholds, and estuary-level tables for 48 major estuaries in Aotearoa New Zealand. It accompanies a manuscript submitted to Global Change Biology and was authored by Phoebe Stewart-Sinclair.

Use Cases

• Modeling wetland redistribution based on provided tidal frame parameters and elevation thresholds.
• Assessing habitat vulnerability to sea-level rise scenarios of +0.5, +1.0, and +1.5 meters.
• Conducting comparative estuary-level analysis across 48 major New Zealand estuaries.
• Validating geomorphic controls on coastal squeeze described in the accompanying manuscript.

Strengths

• Data supports a national-scale analysis across 48 major estuaries.
• Includes specific sea-level rise increments: +0.5, +1.0, and +1.5 meters.
• Released under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license for reuse.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• The dataset is small (175.0 KB), indicating limited scope or aggregated summary data.

Provenance

Source

figshare, accompanying a manuscript submitted to Global Change Biology.

Collection Method

Supplementary methods and data tables supporting the published analysis.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-27 22:37:48; freshness should be verified.

Geography

48 major estuaries in Aotearoa New Zealand.