Effect sizes of moose exclusion experiments for conducting meta-analyses

<p>This dataet describes effect sizes of moose exclusion experiments &nbsp;for conducting meta-analyses, for the boreal zone.</p> <p>Effect sizes of moose exclusion were calculated from fenced plots vs open (control) plots, both for density and height, respectively.</p> <p>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.&nbsp;</p> <p>The following keywords and different combinations of them were used:&rsquo; moose&rsquo;, &lsquo;herbivore&rsquo;, &lsquo;damage&rsquo;, &lsquo;shoot&rsquo;, &lsquo;boreal or hemiboreal&rsquo;, &lsquo;density&rsquo;, &lsquo;height&rsquo;, &lsquo;fenc*&rsquo;, &lsquo;excl*&rsquo;, &lsquo;browsing&rsquo;, &lsquo;conifer or deciduous or broadleaf&rsquo; and &lsquo;pine or spruce or birch&rsquo;.</p> <p>Data from the individual publications were read using WebPlotDigitizer.</p> <p>Only publications that reported averages and standard deviations or standard errors for both exclosure and control plots, were considered.</p>