What is the effect of prescribed burning in temperate and boreal forest on biodiversity, beyond tree regeneration, pyrophilous and saproxylic species? A systematic review protocol

Table 1 The search string to which the combined database searches are equivalent

	Search string
Population terms	(forest* OR woodland* OR “wood* pasture” OR “wood meadow*”)
	AND
Intervention terms	[(prescribed OR control* OR experiment) AND (burn OR fire)]
	AND
Outcome terms	(diversity OR (species AND (richness OR focal OR target OR keystone OR umbrella OR red-list OR threatened OR endangered OR rare)) OR “species density” OR “number of species” OR indicator* OR abundance OR “forest structure” OR habitat*)

An asterisk (*) is a ‘wildcard’ that represents any group of characters, including no character