Data for paper: "Mass-abundance scaling in avian communities is maintained after tropical selective logging"

Data were obtained from 30 studies (19 studies using mist-netting methods and 11 studies using point-count methods) that contained information on abundance or capture rate for avian species in both selectively logged forests and old-growth primary forest controls across the tropics. The online Web of Science database was used to search for studies with the keywords ["selective logging" OR forestry OR "secondary forest" OR "regenerating forest"] AND [bird* OR avian OR aves] AND [mass OR abundance OR number OR "capture rate" OR density]. This search was refined by [tropic*] and [“mist-net” OR “point-count”] resulting in 80 156 studies. We further refined the search to only include studies with topics such as environmental sciences, ecology, forestry, zoology and biodiversity conservation, leaving us with 525 studies. We then supplemented the search using two more Google Scholar searches with the keywords; search 1: "selective logging", bird*, avian, aves, mass, abundance, number, "capture rate", density, “mist-net*”, “point-count*”, tropic*; search 2: "regenerating forest, bird*, avian, aves, mass, abundance, number, "capture rate", density, “mist-net*”, “point-count*”, tropic*. Search 1 resulted in 774 studies and search 2 returned 215 studies. This left us with a total of 1514 studies and after removing duplicates, we were left with 1395 studies. Excluding studies based on title reduced the collection to 676 studies and excluding the remaining studies based on abstract resulted in 211 studies. All searches were conducted between 4th April 2019 to 18th April 2019.