Published January 13, 2024 | Version v2
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Soil organic carbon stock of managed hedgerows of different age classes across England

Description

Dataset to the manuscripts: 

Biffi, S., Chapman, P.J., Grayson, R.P., Ziv, G., 2022. Soil carbon sequestration potential of planting hedgerows in agricultural landscapes. Journal of Environmental Management 307, 114484. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2022.114484

Biffi, S., Chapman, P.J., Grayson, R.P., Holden, J., Leake, J.R., Armitage, H., Hunt, S.F.P., Ziv, G., 2025. Consistent soil organic carbon accumulation under hedges driven by increase in light particulate organic matter. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment 382, 109471. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agee.2025.109471
 
location Locations representing a range of
pedoclimatic conditions across England, which were given a name based on
their geographic area and based on soil parent material in the form of
“geographic area(parent material)”. Y(LI), C(AL), S(CH), S(GS),  Y(CL) from Biffi et al. (2025) and C(SS) from Biffi et al. (2022)
farm Farm ID
site Individual pairings of hedgerows and fields
type Hedge or Field sample
age_and_field_ordered Age classes of hedges
soil_type Cambisol or stagnosol
depth_range_cm Sampling depth interval in cm
BD_gcm3 Bulk density (g/cm3) 
LOI_perc Soil organic matter, measured as loss on ignition (%)
TOC_gkg Total soil organic carbon (g/kg)
c_stock_fd_Mgha SOC stock, calculated following fixed depth method (Mg/ha)
c_stock_esm_Mgha SOC stock, calculated following equivalent soil mass method (Mg/ha)
lon Longitude of sample (WGS84 1 km resolution)
lat Latitude of sample (WGS84 1 km resolution)
esm_cum_coord_plot_label Labels that can be used to refer individual samples to the cumulative coordinate plots included in the Supplementary Information of each paper.

Files

SOC stock of managed hedgerows of different age classes across England.csv

Additional details

Related works

Is supplement to
Journal article: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2022.114484 (DOI)
Journal article: 10.1016/j.agee.2025.109471 (DOI)

Funding

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
Resilience of the UK Food System Programme BB/R005664/1
NERC Environmental Bioinformatics Centre
SoilBioHedge Project NE/M017044/1
NERC Environmental Bioinformatics Centre
SoilBioHedge Project NE/M017079/1