Data for: Soil carbon density can increase when Australian savanna is converted to pasture, but may not change under intense cropping systems

Two datasets from the Douglas-Daly and the South Katherine agricultural regions of the Northern Territory, Australia. Both datasets provide savanna woodland soil profile data, as well as a young and old agricultural land-use systems that have replaced savanna woodland ecosystems. In Douglas-Daly, there are young and old pasture systems; in South Katherine there are young and old fields of Melon cropping