Shrub inventory data such as shrub identity, height and biomass in a 20x5m core plot at Mt. Kilimanjaro

This dataset describes position and sizes of all shrubs above 130 cm high in all plots, also fruiting and flowering events in KiLi project. -999999 represents NA in numeric variables. 

The shrub inventory was carried out within a 5 × 20 m subplot in the centre of each plot. Within this subplot, the shrub layer was defined as consisting of all woody stems exceeding 1.3 m in height, but below 10 cm dbh and thus not included in the tree inventory. We measured dbh at 1.3 m with a diameter tape (Forestry Suppliers; for dbh's above 3 cm) or a caliper (for dbh's below 3 cm) and the height of each shrub with a hypsometer.

The KiLi project (2010-2018) is a German Science Foundation (DFG) funded research unit (DFG research unit FOR1246) that focuses on biodiversity and ecosystem processes along altitudinal and disturbance gradients on Mt. Kilimanjaro (Tanzania, Africa), capitalizing on its world-wide unique range of climatic and vegetation zones. The research unit comprises 2 central projects and 7 subprojects from various disciplines. On a total of 60 study sites in both natural and human-disturbed ecosystems biodiversity (e.g. plants, soil arthropods, ants, bees, frogs, lizards, bats, birds), related ecosystem processes (decomposition, seed dispersal, pollination, herbivory, predation), and biogeochemical processes and properties of ecosystems (climate, soil properties and nutrient status, regulation of water and carbon fluxes, trace gas emissions, primary productivity, functional diversity) are analyzed.