Table 5 Search string used to update searches in Web of Science Core Collections and Scopus from 2015–2016, and for CAB abstracts up to 2016

Population terms

((forest* OR woodland* OR “wood* pasture*” OR “wood* meadow*”) OR (KK*.cc.))

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*)