Top-down drivers of savanna ecosystems promote bird foraging

These data are from a factoria experiment excluding large mammals and applying early and late dry season burns in Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique.  Data include the abundance and richness of foraging granivorous and insectivorous birds as well as grass biomass, grass cover, grass richness, shrub abundance, Capparis erythrocarpos cover, and tree basal area.  Data are from 2023-2024., , # Top-down drivers of savanna ecosystems promote bird foraging

Access this dataset on Dryad ([https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.bcc2fqzrt](https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.bcc2fqzrt))

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We have submitted our raw data (**jonata_data_dryad.csv**), primary dataset containing vegetation and bird abundance and richness across experimental treatments.

## Description of the data and file structure

The ‘jonata_data_dryad’ dataset includes ecological data from the Gorongosa Savanna Ecology Experiment in Mozambique. The data include fire and large mammal presence treatment levels as well as data on vegetation and the abundance and richness of foraging granivorous and insectivorous birds. The experimental plots were 30 x 30 m and were either open or closed to large mammal herbivores. Crossed with the herbivore exclosure treatment was a fire treatment included early dry season (cold) and late dry season (hot) fires as well as unburned plots. The treatments were applied initially in 2021. In res...,