Sabine Reinsch, Inma Lebron, Michele Brentegani, Milo Brooks, Susheel Bhanu Busi, Claudia Cagnarini, David Cooper, John Day, Bridget A Emmett, Eleonora Fitos, Tim Goodall, Robert Griffiths, Briony Jones, Patrick Keenan, Aidan Keith, Josiane M Lopes-Mazzetto, Kelly E Mason, Denise Pallett, M Glória Pereira, Adam Pinder, David A Robinson, Simon M Smart, Amy Thomas, Sue Benham, Elena Vanguelova, Bernhard J Cosby
Soil organic carbon (SOC) is a soil health indicator and understanding dynamics changing SOC stocks will help achieving net zero goals. Here we present four datasets featuring 11,750 data points covering co-located aboveground and below-ground metrics for exploring ecosystem SOC dynamics. Five sites across England with an established land use contrast, grassland and woodland next to each other, were rigorously sampled for aboveground (n = 109), surface (n = 33 soil water release curves), topsoil, and subsoil metrics...
May 9, 2024: Scientific Data