Forest-fires-GHG: A dataset derived from a literature review on soil greenhouse gas emissions after forest fires in upland boreal forests.

This dataset comprises mean soil greenhouse gas (CO2, CH4 and N2O) fluxes and supporting information (age class, fire severity class, presence or absence of permafrost and region) extracted from peer-reviewed articles that met the inclusion criteria for the literature review article titled: "How do forest fires affect soil greenhouse gas emissions in upland boreal forests? A review