Data from: Nature development in degraded landscapes: how pioneer bioturbators and water level control soil subsidence, nutrient chemistry and greenhouse gas emissionPublished in PedobiologiaThis datafile originates from a laboratory study in which we studied the effect water level and two soil bioturbators on soil subsidence, soil crack formation, nutrient chemistry and greenhouse gas emission. The laboratory experiment that ran in 2018, used soils from a newly constructed archipelago (the Marker Wadden, the Netherlands) that was constructed to enhance the natural values of a deteriorating freshwater lake.This dataset contains data on soil subsidence, soil cracks, nutrients and greenhouse gas fluxes obtaind from the experiment described above.