Data for: Conversion of forest to cinnamon plantation depletes soil carbon stocks in the top metre of the tropical highlands of Kerinci Regency, Jambi Province, Indonesia

We quantified SOC stocks down the soil profile under cinnamon plantations of different ages in three locations in Kerinci Regency, Jambi Province, Indonesia. We collected soil cores at 10 cm intervals down the soil profile (to 1 m) to calculate total stocks of SOC under these land uses and to investigate the effect that natural forest conversion to cinnamon plantation has on topsoil and subsoil carbon. We then investigated whether the chemical composition of soil organic matter (SOM) changes down the soil profile and whether this was different under different land uses.