Soil organic carbon stock of managed hedgerows of different age classes across England

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 ofpedoclimatic conditions across England, which were given a name based ontheir 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.