Effect sizes of moose exclusion experiments for conducting meta-analyses

This dataet describes effect sizes of moose exclusion experiments for conducting meta-analyses, for the boreal zone. Effect sizes of moose exclusion were calculated from fenced plots vs open (control) plots, both for density and height, respectively. Web of Science, Google Scholar, ScienceDirect and Scopus were used as databases for searching potential articles, and the time of searching was between November 2020 and June 2021. The following keywords and different combinations of them were used:’ moose’, ‘herbivore’, ‘damage’, ‘shoot’, ‘boreal or hemiboreal’, ‘density’, ‘height’, ‘fenc*’, ‘excl*’, ‘browsing’, ‘conifer or deciduous or broadleaf’ and ‘pine or spruce or birch’. Data from the individual publications were read using WebPlotDigitizer. Only publications that reported averages and standard deviations or standard errors for both exclosure and control plots, were considered.