The file contains data on soil organism biomass, abundance, richness, evenness, and diversity in burned and unburned soils extracted from peer reviewed publications published between 1988 and 2016 for use in meta-analysis. Soil organisms include bacteria, fungi, nematodes, protozoa, and arthropods. The file contains three sheets: (1) a read me file describing the contents of data sheets and columns therein; (2) a list of all published studies from which data was extracted for meta-analysis including first author, publication year, and journal; (3) a data file containing all data and accompanying information extracted from each publication. The contents of all columns are described in the ReadMe tab and file
