The dataset for the meta-analysis of fungicide

We reviewed only studies that used fungicide treatments with the intention of excluding fungi and oomycetes. A search was conducted using the following search string [TS = (fungicide*) AND (forest* OR grassland* OR savanna*) AND (diversity* OR abundance* OR richness* OR survival* OR growth* OR biomass*)] in the Web of Science (clarivate.com/webofsciencegroup/solutions/web-of-science/), Google Scholar (scholar.google.com), and CNKI (a Chinese database; cnki.net/) through to 10th August 2023.

We combined all records from the three databases and removed duplicates, yielding a total of 1316 papers. From these papers, we first screened the titles and abstracts to select papers on the correct topic. We then examined each paper to determine whether it met the following criteria: (1) the study should have both a control treatment and fungal pathogen exclusion treatments using fungicide, but experiments that combined two or more treatments were dropped; (2) the article reported the growth rate, survival rate, biomass, or species diversity indices, such as species richness, Shannon-Weiner index, or Simpson index, in the main text, tables, or figures; (3) if the study species were invasive plants, to test the enemy release hypothesis, the experiment should be conducted in uninvaded soil in the invaded region.