| RecYear | | Physical quantity | Year of record |
| Watershed | | Nominal | Watershed |
| Shrub_id | | Physical quantity | Plot number at each site (1 to 20) |
| Treatment | | Nominal | Treatments of browsing (~50% removal of new meristematic growth), or control (no removal of plant material) |
| Sppcode | | Physical quantity | Species code from Konza taxa list |
| Genus | | Nominal | Taxa associated with plant composition and cover class |
| Species | | Nominal | Abbreviated species name |
| nsc_type | | Nominal | Nonstructural carbohydrate data: this table give root glucose, sucrose and starch value for each shrub at each site |
| Concentration | | Physical quantity | These values are on a per mass dry weight basis (mg/g) |
| DryWT | | Physical quantity | These values are on a percent by dry weight basis (%) |
