Data for the article "Determinants of soil field-saturated hydraulic conductivity across sub-Saharan Africa: texture and beyond"

This dataset contains the data underlying the analysis and results in the article 'Determinants of soil field-saturated hydraulic conductivity across sub-Saharan Africa: texture and beyond'. The data were collected within different projects (see funding section) using the Land Degradation Surveillance Framework (LDSF) methodology developed by ICRAF (http://landscapeportal.org/blog/2015/03/25/the-land-degradation-surveillance-framework-ldsf/; https://www.cifor-icraf.org/knowledge/publication/25533). This dataset contains data from 3573 plots from 83 LDSF sites distributed across 19 countries in sub-Saharan Africa, including data on soil infiltration, vegetation structure, woody and herbaceous vegetation cover, presence of visible signs of erosion, and impact of grazing. It also contains the predictions using MIR Spectroscopy for topsoil (0-20cm) samples for soil texture (sand and clay content), soil organic carbon (SOC), and pH.