VCR bay depth and seagrass shoot density data for parameterization of GEOMBEST++Seagrass

Data from the Virginia Coast Reserve relating bay fetch-depth and seagrass density-depth used to parameterize GEOMBEST++Seagrass for simulations investigating coupled barrier-marsh-bay evolution. DepthFetch data table: Length, depth, and type (seagrass or bare sediment) of all bathymetric transects used to construct the depth-fetch lookup table in the model. Transects were extracted from all VCR basins using the bathymetry from Richardson et al. (2014 doi:10.6073/pasta/63a22558d6650fae8232b6a8814a90d5), vary in length, and run with the dominant wind direction from basin margin to basin margin. ShootDensity tab: Shoot densities of restored Zostera marina plots in Hog Island Bay binned by depth for years 3-6 of seeding. Data originally from McGlathery (2013 doi:10.6073/pasta/5a6ea442cf59cabb3112bb634a968ae5). The maximum density of each bin is used as a representative shoot density based on depth.