Data from: Dryland rock detention structures increase herbaceous vegetation cover and stabilize shrub cover over 10 years but do not directly affect soil fertility

Data to accompany the publication "Dryland rock detention structures increase herbaceous vegetation cover and stabilize shrub cover over 10 years but do not directly affect soil fertility" by Ossanna et al. (2024), Science of the Total Environment, 917, 170194. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.170194. Access the project's GitHub repository for full analysis at https://github.com/lossanna/AVCA_ElkLD. Directory: bac-arc_clean_asv.txt Cleaned ASV (amplicon sequence variant) table from 16S rRNA amplion sequencing. Each column (1-20766) is a unique ASV, each row (1-62) is a soil sample, and values are the number of ASV reads found in each sample. Cleaned table produced from DADA2 pipeline and contaminant removal. fungi_clean_asv.txt Cleaned ASV table from ITS amplicon sequencing. Each column (1-6823) is a unique ASV, each row is a soil sample (1-62), and values are the number of ASV reads found in each sample. Cleaned table produced from DADA2 pipeline and contaminant removal. Herb-and-shrub-cover_2012-2021.csv Percent cover of grasses, forbs, and shrubs (summed together) from 2012 to 2021. Herb-cover_2012-2021.csv Percent cover of grasses and forbs (summed together) from 2012 to 2021. Invasive-cover_2012-2021.csv Percent cover of invasive plants from 2012 to 2021. Perennial-plant-diversity_2012-2021.csv Richness (number of species) and Shannon diversity from 2012 to 2021 (perennial plants only). sequencing-metadata.csv Sample numbers and their corresponding treatment (Treated or Control). Shrub-cover_2012-2021.csv Percent cover of shrubs from 2012 to 2021. Species-cover_201212-2021.csv Plant cover by species; includes common and scientific names, invasive/native status, and functional group (annual/perennial grass or forb, shrub, tree). Veg-soil-elev_2021.csv Vegetation cover, soil chemical and microbial data, and change in channel bed elevation from 2021; used for structural equation modeling.