| DataCode | | Nominal | Dataset code |
| RecType | | Nominal | dataset record type |
| RecYear | | Physical quantity | Year of sample |
| Watershed | | Nominal | watershed |
| Shrub_ID | | Physical quantity | Unique ID of each shrub |
| Treatment | | Nominal | Treatment |
| Early_live | | Physical quantity | number of live stems that were tagged at the beginning of the season |
| Late_live | | Physical quantity | number of tagged stems still alive at the end of the season. |
| Late_dead | | Physical quantity | number of tagged stems that died throughout the growing season |
| Late_new | | Physical quantity | number of new stems at the end of the season |
| Flowering_stems | | Physical quantity | number of flowering stems within each transect |
| Transect_length | | Physical quantity | the length each transect |
| Transect_width | | Physical quantity | width of each transect |
| Transect_area | | Physical quantity | area of each transect |
| Shrub_length | | Physical quantity | length of longest axis of each shrub measured at the end of the growing season |
| Shrub_width | | Physical quantity | perpendicular width of each shrub at the end of the growing season |
| Initial_stem_density | | Physical quantity | stems m-2 within each transect at the beginning of the growing season |
| Final_stem_density | | Physical quantity | stems m-2 within each transect at the end of the growing season |
| Shrub_area | | Physical quantity | shrub area |
