Soil surface features data, Dong Cao, Vietnam

<b>If using this dataset, please cite Patin et al., 2018 <a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2018.05.044" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2018.05.044</a></b><br>
Soil surface features, including slope gradient, areal percentages of free aggregates, free gravel, structural crust, erosion crust, gravel crust, charcoals, and residues, areal percentages of worm casts and termite pellets, algae, mosses, crop and tree cover, weed and fallow cover at the soil surface, crop and tree height, weed and fallow height, areal percentage of pedestal cover, pedestal maximum height, and pedestal mean height, measured in microplots (1 m2) within the Dong Cao catchment (Vietnam).<br>
“Maize”: Trials with maize (Zea mays L.), field clearing with hand hoe (no fire). After sowing of the maize there was limited weed control using hand tools, resulting in high weed cover.<br>
“Maize no-till”: Trials with maize (Zea mays L.), field clearing with hand hoe (no fire) followed by planting of cuttings of Brachiaria ruziziensis Germ. &amp; Evrard being the cover crop. Maize was sown afterwards. The cover crop itself competed with the maize although it was supposed to suppress weeds in the maize.<br>
“Acacia mangium”: Low density of Acacia mangium Willd. Plantation installed in 2001 after several years of cassava cultivation.<br>
“Grass”: Spontaneous grass growing between Acacia mangium trees.<br>