Corresponding author: Martin Schmidt (
Academic editor: Maria Luisa Paracchini
The ecosystem services approach is increasingly used in scientific literature all over the world. Originally the concept was proposed for natural or semi-natural ecosystems. However, for some years the approach is also used in literature related to agriculture. While ecosystems under agricultural management provide important services, the management also has negative environmental effects and consumes certain ecosystem services. This raises the question in what relation and to which extent the ecosystem services approach is applied in agricultural research. Moreover, it is interesting where and on what scale studies were conducted.
The purpose of this literature data article is to give an open accessible database to analyse ecosystem services indexed literature with an agricultural context. It gives an overview on i) the assimilation of the ecosystem services concept across several scientific disciplines that deal with agriculture, ii) the scale and regions of studies. Further, we evaluated iii) how the relation of agriculture to ecosystem services is conceptualised.
This database enables potential users to get better insights into the application of the ecosystem services approach on agricultural research questions and whether new or different findings can be generated in comparison to conventional disciplinary research.
The number of articles indexed as
Agricultural ecosystems are key providers for several ES (
The purpose of this literature data article is to give an open accessible database to analyse ES indexed literature with an agricultural context. This literature analysis follows the ES classification from
Additionally, the spatial allocation based on world regions and the scale of the conducted research was indicated, when possible (especially for case-studies). This should give opportunity for further interpretation of the results.
For creating a meta-analysis database (Suppl. material
We conducted an
The search can be reproduced with the following search queries. A search conducted later than the date at which we conducted it, will result in more articles as some articles are added to Scopus® after that date, also for earlier years. The search query can be used by applying the [
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We created a search term hierarchy (see Fig.
After the distribution of the articles to each group, the experts were able to exchange papers between groups according to their expertise in the very specific field and the content of the paper. The number of migrated articles other experts is shown in Table
Further, the group
Some articles could not be evaluated due to several reasons (Suppl. material
The seven scientific fields we distinguished (see Fig.
To safeguard a prevailing and coherent evaluation of the analysed articles, we chose an adapted Delphi process. The Delphi method is a technique involving a group of experts to evaluate complex issues with a dynamic communicative process (
For our adapted Delphi process, an interdisciplinary author group of 14 researchers acted as experts. Despite from the conventional Delphi process (having one expert group) our experts were grouped according to their core research topics in seven different groups, plus
Governance C and N compounds Soil Climate Biodiversity Water Assessment
Each expert contributing to the meta-analysis (Suppl. material
The experts evaluated the level of ES concept implementation with
In the agricultural context, it is also important to be clear about the relationship of agriculture to ES. In coherence with
To potentially find agglomerations or gaps in the global spatial distribution of research activities, the scale and the geographic allocation of the study area were investigated. Therefore we differentiated between
After a first evaluation round we held a full-day moderated workshop i) to inform all experts about the evaluations from other experts, ii) to discuss all experts' experiences with the evaluation process, and iii) to refine the common understanding of the ES-based research as a basis for the second evaluation round.
The development of an improved common understanding of ES-based research was supported by a SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats) analysis. After this workshop the following descriptive criteria guided the evaluation of ES implementation for each paper. The improved ES concept follows the following criteria:
Supports holistic analysis of ecosystems Supports interdisciplinary perspectives on ecosystems including collaboration of natural and social science Helps research to focus more on linkages between ecosystems and human benefits rather than on new insights in the understanding of ecological processes Guides research towards the use of a broad variety of methods including combinations of qualitative and quantitative methods Inspires natural scientists to think about the societal relevance of their research and thus, research results are often used to discuss land use management options and governance approaches.
All papers were re-evaluated in a second round using these creteria. The amount of papers with changes regarding the ES implementation are documented in Table
It was made sure that no expert reviewed their own papers. The overall adapted Delphi process took place from January to November 2016.
Evaluation of the ES concept implementation in agricultural scientific literature
CSV, RIS
2016-12-01
The dataset was created by Martin Schmidt and Peter Weißhuhn.
Contributors to the dataset are Jürgen Augustin, Roger Funk, Kati Häfner, Hannes König, Lasse Loft, Bettina Matzdorf, Christoph Merz, Claas Meyer, Annette Piorr, Michaela Reutter, Martin Schmidt, Ulrich Stachow, Karin Stein-Bachinger, and Peter Weißhuhn.
English
CC BY 4.0
The authors wish it to be known that the first 2 authors should be regarded as joint First Authors.
Hierarchy of search terms and their resulting amount after the
Re-distribution of articles according to their scientific field and groups based on the search query.
Incoming | ||||||||||
Outgoing | Governance | C and N compounds | Soil | Climate | Biodiversity | Water | Assessment | Other | Sum | |
Governance | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | ||
C and N compounds | 1 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 13 | ||
Soil | 0 | 2 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 16 | ||
Climate | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 9 | ||
Biodiversity | 15 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 11 | 9 | 38 | ||
Water | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ||
Assessment | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | ||
Other | 74 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 49 | 2 | 25 | 156 | ||
Sum | 92 | 3 | 12 | 3 | 76 | 4 | 38 | 14 |
Changes in the evaluation of Ecosystem Service implementation during the Delphi process
ES implementation after Delphi II | |||||
ES implementation before Delphi II | not implemented | slightly implemented | fully implemented | Sum | |
not implemented | 11 | 7 | 18 | ||
slightly implemented | 9 | 52 | 61 | ||
fully implemented | 3 | 13 | 16 | ||
Sum | 95 |
Evaluation of the ES concept implementation in agricultural scientific literature
CSV
File: oo_120856.csv
Articles which were dropped out
CSV
File: oo_113372.csv
Bibliographic data file containing all articles found with the search query
RIS
File: oo_114658.ris