Wildfire and Biodiversity Meta-Analysis Dataset (European Forests)

Gerber, G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8722-3113 (2025). Wildfire and Biodiversity Meta-Analysis Dataset (European Forests). 10.5281/zenodo.17725264.

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Abstract

Here is the dataset of a meta-analysis examining the effects of fires on taxa abundances within various European forest fauna and flora. The analysis focuses on how different taxa respond to fire, providing quantitative estimates of these responses using effect sizes. The dataset provides 2192 unique effect sizes from 819 unique taxa reported in 29 studies investigating wild or prescribed fires. The study sites covered four European forest biomes (Mediterranean Forests, woodlands and scrubs; Temperate broadleaf and mixed forests; Temperate Coniferous Forest, and Boreal forests/Taiga) and 13 ecoregions (Olson et al., 2001).

The main CSV file contains all the input and output data. The primary input data contains data from published studies examining fire effects on various taxonomic groups. Each row represents a unique effect size from a comparison between burned (treatment) and unburned (control) conditions.
A second CSV file contains the citation information for the 29 included studies the main dataset.

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