Data from: Does Increasing the Diversity of Small Grain Cropping Systems Improve Aggregate Stability and Soil Hydraulic Properties?

This is the Data Set from a paper titled "Does Increasing the Diversity of Small Grain Cropping Systems Improve Aggregate Stability and Soil Hydraulic Properties?" The paper is published in the journal Agronomy. The doi for the paper is https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy13061567. We measured wet and dry aggregate stability, water retention hydraulic conductivity, bulk density and soil carbon concentration on a dryland small grain cropping system study. This study was a dryland study located in Sidney, Montana, USA with 10 cropping systems. We sampled this study after 2 cycles of the four year cropping systems. The 10 cropping systems were continuous spring wheat, continuous winter wheat, continuous barley, pea-spring wheat, pea-barley, pea-winter wheat, pea-barley-camelina-spring wheat, pea-barley-canola-spring wheat, pea-winter wheat-camelina-spring wheat and pea-winter wheat-canola-spring wheat. We found that increasing the diversity of the cropping system did not improve the soil properties that we measured.

本数据集源于一篇题为《增加小麦作物系统多样性是否能够提升整体稳定性和土壤水力性质？》的论文，该论文发表于《农业学》期刊。论文的DOI编号为https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy13061567。我们于美国蒙大拿州西德尼市的干旱区小麦作物系统研究中，对湿润和干燥的团聚体稳定性、水分保持水力传导率、土壤容重及土壤碳浓度进行了测量。该研究为一项干旱区研究，共包含10种作物系统。我们在四年轮作周期经过两轮之后对研究进行了采样。这10种作物系统包括：连续春小麦、连续冬小麦、连续大麦、豌豆-春小麦、豌豆-大麦、豌豆-冬小麦、豌豆-大麦-亚麻-春小麦、豌豆-大麦-油菜-春小麦、豌豆-冬小麦-亚麻-春小麦以及豌豆-冬小麦-油菜-春小麦。研究发现，增加作物系统的多样性并未提升我们所测量的土壤性质。