Ponds are globally abundant and important to the global carbon cycle. While ponds have large greenhouse gas emissions, they may also sequester large amounts of carbon in their sediments. Here, we studied carbon burial rates in 22 experimental ponds without watersheds, where carbon sequestration comes solely from autochthonous primary production. The ponds were built identically in 1964 at Cornell University, and have since experienced different management strategies. This dataset includes two files: (1) spreadsheets related to carbon burial calculations (e.g., measuring sediment thickness, estimates of loss-on-ignition, and carbon burial rates), and (2) spreadsheets of historical management practices for our study ponds. These datasets accompany a manuscript accepted at Limnology and Oceanography Letters.

Please see details of data collection in the associated manuscript.