Global marine and estuarine mangrove distribution in 2020

This is the product generated from the research entitled with 'A global assessment of mangrove soil organic carbon sources and implications for blue carbon credit.'The mapping of estuarine and marine mangroves contains two steps, the mapping of global mangroves and the mapping of estuarine regions. The Global Mangrove Watch datasets are the most commonly used mangrove datasets with public access. Therefore, we extracted the global mangrove distribution in 2020 from Global Mangrove Watch. For the estuarine region mapping, we applied a mask of the global estuary distribution developed by Sea Around Us project to mangrove distribution . However, we noticed that the estuary distribution only convers the water, while mangroves around the estuary was overlooked. We therefore combine the estuary distribution with the sampling point in our collection which was clearly defined as estuarine mangroves to manually draw the boundaries between estuarine and marine mangroves.