The benefits of systematic mapping to evidence-based environmental management

Haddaway, Neal R.; Bernes, Claes; Jonsson, Bengt Gunnar; Hedlund, Katarina

doi:10.1007/s13280-016-0773-x

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“…Evidence-based systematic reviews bridge the gap between academics and managers by presenting a weighted overview of all studies relating to a topic, including information from the “grey” literature where conservation management outcomes often are reported (Pullin et al 2007). Systematic maps operate on a similar premise but aim to outline existing knowledge gaps (Haddaway et al 2016). These types of evidence-based reviews are gaining momentum (Sutherland et al 2004; Pullin et al 2007; Walsh et al 2014) and deserve to be employed with behavioural interventions in mind (Greggor et al 2014a, 2016a; Schakner et al 2014b).…”

Section: Conservation Applications That Target Social Learning Biasesmentioning

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Harnessing learning biases is essential for applying social learning in conservation

Greggor

Thornton

Clayton

2016

Behav Ecol Sociobiol

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Social learning can influence how animals respond to anthropogenic changes in the environment, determining whether animals survive novel threats and exploit novel resources or produce maladaptive behaviour and contribute to human-wildlife conflict. Predicting where social learning will occur and manipulating its use are, therefore, important in conservation, but doing so is not straightforward. Learning is an inherently biased process that has been shaped by natural selection to prioritize important information and facilitate its efficient uptake. In this regard, social learning is no different from other learning processes because it too is shaped by perceptual filters, attentional biases and learning constraints that can differ between habitats, species, individuals and contexts. The biases that constrain social learning are not understood well enough to accurately predict whether or not social learning will occur in many situations, which limits the effective use of social learning in conservation practice. Nevertheless, we argue that by tapping into the biases that guide the social transmission of information, the conservation applications of social learning could be improved. We explore the conservation areas where social learning is highly relevant and link them to biases in the cues and contexts that shape social information use. The resulting synthesis highlights many promising areas for collaboration between the fields and stresses the importance of systematic reviews of the evidence surrounding social learning practices.

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Section: Conservation Applications That Target Social Learning Biasesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Harnessing learning biases is essential for applying social learning in conservation

Greggor

Thornton

Clayton

2016

Behav Ecol Sociobiol

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“…The systematic map approach consisted of conducting a systematic review and collecting existing evidence on a broad topic (Haddaway et al ., ). This approach allows for a more objective and transparent review compared with the traditional narrative review (Collins & Fauser, ).…”

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Quantification of regulating ecosystem services provided by weeds in annual cropping systems using a systematic map approach

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Summary Ecosystem services have received increasing attention in life sciences, but only a limited amount of quantitative data are available concerning the ability of weeds to provide these services. Following an expert focus group on this topic, a systematic search for articles displaying evidence of weeds providing regulating ecosystem services was performed, resulting in 129 articles. The most common service found was pest control and the prevailing mechanism was that weeds provide a suitable habitat for natural enemies. Other articles showed that weeds improved soil nutrient content, soil physical properties and crop pollinator abundance. Weeds were found to provide some important ecosystem services for agriculture, but only a small number of studies presented data on crop yield. Experimental approaches are proposed that can: (i) disentangle the benefits obtained from ecosystem services provisioning from the costs due to weed competition and (ii) quantify the contribution of diverse weed communities in reducing crop competition and in providing ecosystem services. Existing vegetation databases can be used to select weed species with functional traits facilitating ecosystem service provisioning while having a lower competitive capacity. However, for services such as pest control, there are hardly any specific plant traits that have been identified and more fundamental research is needed.

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“…Systematic maps provide a rapid and inexpensive overview of the state of evidence in a broad subject or topic, without detailing what the evidence finds. They are most useful for identifying knowledge gaps and clusters, which can help direct research effort where it is most needed (Haddaway et al, 2016). All of these systematic outputs-including the Conservation Evidence database-are clearly organized, permanent, searchable and designed to minimize several key sources of bias, especially compared to other communication methods such as traditional literature reviews, notes from conference presentations, or word of mouth.…”

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Building a tool to overcome barriers in research-implementation spaces: The Conservation Evidence database

Sutherland

Taylor

MacFarlane

et al. 2019

Biological Conservation

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Conservation practitioners, policy-makers and researchers work within shared spaces with many shared goals. Improving the flow of information between conservation researchers, practitioners and policy-makers could lead to dramatic gains in the effectiveness of conservation practice. However, several barriers can hinder this transfer including lack of time, inaccessibility of evidence, the real or perceived irrelevance of scientific research to practical questions, and the politically motivated spread of disinformation. Conservation Evidence works to overcome these barriers by providing a freely-available database of summarized scientific evidence for the effects of conservation interventions on biodiversity. The methods used to build this database -a combination of discipline-wide literature searching and subject-wide evidence synthesis -have been developed over the last 15 years to address the challenges of synthesizing large volumes of evidence of varying quality and measured outcome

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The benefits of systematic mapping to evidence-based environmental management

Cited by 133 publications

References 26 publications

Harnessing learning biases is essential for applying social learning in conservation

Harnessing learning biases is essential for applying social learning in conservation

Quantification of regulating ecosystem services provided by weeds in annual cropping systems using a systematic map approach

Building a tool to overcome barriers in research-implementation spaces: The Conservation Evidence database

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