Soil hydrological properties of hedges of different ages on two soil reference soil groups in England

Datasets to the manuscript: Biffi, S., P. J. Chapman, R. P. Grayson, and G. Ziv. 2026. " The Influence of Hedgerow Planting on the Hydrological Functioning of Two Agricultural Soil Reference Groups." Soil Use and Management 42, no. 1: e70179. https://doi.org/10.1111/sum.70179. Tables description: Biffi_et_al_2026_soil_char_and_saturated_hydr_conductivity_Ksat.csv : table of soil properties and saturated hydraulic conductivity Ksat at different depth intervals. Columns as: farm Farm ID site Individual pairings of hedgerows and fields type Hedge or Field sample depth_range Sampling depth interval (cm) in format "upper_lower" age_and_field_ordered_three_ages Age classes of hedges soil_reference_group Soil reference group (cambisol/stagonosol) BD_gcm3 Bulk density (g/cm3) as total sample mass and the coarse mass, divided by the total sample volume (note: this is not the fine soil stock) SOM_gkg Soil organic matter, measured as loss on ignition (g/kg) TOC_gkg Total soil organic carbon (g/kg) pH_H20 Soil pH in soil-water suspension particle_density_gcm3 particle density (g/cm3) porosity_cmcm3 Soil porosity (cm/cm3) sand_perc Sand content (%) silt_perc Silt content (%) clay_perc Clay content (%) Ksat_cms Saturated hydraulic conductivity Ksat (cm/s) Ksat_mmh Saturated hydraulic conductivity Ksat (mm/s) Biffi_et_al_2026_unsaturated_hydr_conductivity_K.csv : table of unsaturated hydraulic conductivity K measured in the field. Does not contain replicates excluded (see paper for details). Columns as: farm Farm ID site Individual pairings of hedgerows and fields type Hedge or Field sample age_and_field_ordered_three_ages Age classes of hedges replicate Replicate number (1, 2 or 3) K_0.5 Infiltration rate (K, cm s-1) at -0.5 cm tension K_3 Infiltration rate (K, cm s-1) at -3 cm tension K_6 Infiltration rate (K, cm s-1) at -6 cm tension macropore_flow_percresc Macropore flow (%), rescaled mesopore_flow_percresc Mesopore flow (%), rescaled micropore_flow_percresc Micropore flow (%), rescaled total_unscaled Sum of macro, meso, and micropore flows before rescaling