Data on soil characteristics for: Drivers of seedling emergence and early growth of 12 European oak species: Results from a cross-continental experiment Reyes Martín, Marino Pedro Leverkus, Alexandro B. coordinated distributed experiment climatic gradient Soil texture Soil nutrients Data on soil characteristics from 45 sites in 16 European countries, where oak regeneration trials have been conducted. Methods are described in the associated paper. The column site_id matches the equally-named column of the seedling dataset. 2025-10-17T06:28:36Z 2025-10-17T06:28:36Z 2025-10 dataset https://hdl.handle.net/10481/107107 10.1016/j.foreco.2025.123223 eng open access Open Data Commons Attribution License (ODC-By) Europe Soils sampled in 2021 and 2022 Elsevier