Characterization of grassland and shrubland patches on post-mining Mediterranean slopes and the adjacent forest: soil, vegetation, and topography data

Key message The described database provides environmental information about a case study of post-mining slopes in northern Spain. It characterizes soil physicochemical properties (including first mineral horizon thickness), plant community attributes (diversity indexes and cover by species, by family, by Raunkiær’s life-form and by life cycle) and the topography (slope steepness and altitude) of two vegetation patches—grassland and shrubland—on the same mine slope restored 11 years ago, and the close native forest. The database is available at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17523269 , and the associated metadata at: https://metadata-afs.nancy.inra.fr/geonetwork/srv/fre/catalog.search#/metadata/ec2be8d2-dbb2-4d7b-a8f3-7aabe30e6517 .