Biological regulation of organic and inorganic carbon in the tidal flats of China: new insights for blue carbon inventories

This study uses a station-based intertidal dataset that integrates climate, hydrographic conditions, sediment properties, sediment organic and inorganic carbon (OC and IC), and meiofaunal metrics (abundance and/or community composition). All variables are harmonized in a single table (rows = stations/samples; columns = variables) to support multivariate analyses of environmental controls on OC/IC patterns across tidal flats.