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.本数据集记录了所有样地内株高超过130 cm的灌木的位置与尺寸，同时涵盖了KiLi项目（KiLi Project）中的结实与开花事件。数值变量中以-999999表示缺失值（NA）。 灌木调查在每个样地中心的5×20 m副样地内开展。该副样地内的灌木层定义为所有株高超过1.3 m、胸径（diameter at breast height, dbh）小于10 cm的木本茎干，因此此类灌木未被纳入林木调查范畴。我们使用直径卷尺（Forestry Suppliers出品，适用于胸径＞3 cm的个体）或游标卡尺（适用于胸径＜3 cm的个体）在1.3 m高度处测量胸径，并使用测高仪测量每株灌木的株高。 KiLi项目（KiLi Project，2010-2018）是由德国科学基金会（Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG）资助的研究单元（DFG研究单元FOR1246），聚焦于非洲坦桑尼亚乞力马扎罗山沿海拔梯度与人为干扰梯度的生物多样性与生态系统过程，依托其全球独一无二的气候与植被带分布范围开展研究。该研究单元包含2个核心项目与7个跨学科子项目。研究团队在共计60个涵盖自然与人为干扰生态系统的研究样地中，对生物多样性（如植物、土壤节肢动物、蚂蚁、蜜蜂、蛙类、蜥蜴、蝙蝠、鸟类）、相关生态系统过程（分解、种子传播、传粉、植食作用、捕食作用）以及生态系统生物地球化学过程与属性（气候、土壤属性与养分状况、水碳通量调控、痕量气体排放、初级生产力、功能多样性）展开分析。