| RecYear | | Physical quantity | Year of record |
| RecMonth | | Physical quantity | Month of record |
| RecDay | | Physical quantity | Day of record |
| Watershed | | Nominal | watershed |
| Soiltype | | Nominal | soil type (tully or florence) |
| Repsite | | Code list | replication site for a watershed/soil |
| Spcode | | Code list | species code |
| Species | | Code list | abbreviated name of species |
| S1 | | Physical quantity | number of individuals in sample 1 |
| S2 | | Physical quantity | number of individuals in sample 2 |
| S3 | | Physical quantity | number of individuals in sample 3 |
| S4 | | Physical quantity | number of individuals in sample 4 |
| S5 | | Physical quantity | number of individuals in sample 5 |
| S6 | | Physical quantity | number of individuals in sample 6 |
| S7 | | Physical quantity | number of individuals in sample 7 |
| S8 | | Physical quantity | number of individuals in sample 8 |
| S9 | | Physical quantity | number of individuals in sample 9 |
| S10 | | Physical quantity | number of individuals in sample 10 |
| Total | | Physical quantity | total number of individual/all samples |