DOI: 10.5061/dryad.nvx0k6f01
title: How are the impacts of multiple anthropogenic drivers considered in marine ecosystem service research? A systematic literature review

description: In recent decades, great research efforts have been made to understand how
 specific anthropogenic drivers impact coastal marine ecosystems and their
 services. Nevertheless, we still lack a synthesis of the existing
 knowledge on single and multiple anthropogenic drivers impacts to coastal
 marine systems, which is necessary to guide future work. The objective of
 this paper is to assess the current knowledge on the cumulative impacts of
 anthropogenic drivers on coastal marine ecosystem services, with emphasis
 on abiotic drivers as dissolved nutrients (eutrophication or
 de-eutrophication), temperature (warming), pH (acidification), and oxygen
 (hypoxia). We performed a systematic review of the literature consisting
 of 164 papers using the PRISMA method (Preferred Reporting Items for
 Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses). We only include English-written
 papers, we exclude non-English papers to avoid potential errors in
 representing or interpreting scientific information due to language
 limitations among the authors. The results show that coastal marine
 ecosystem service research has largely focused on single drivers, while
 multiple driver assessments are less common. Assessments partially
 integrate multiple driver complexity, but they do not consider 1)
 relations and feedbacks between drivers; 2) social processes dynamics; and
 3) temporal and spatial scales. Synthesis and applications: Our review
 indicates that multiple drivers and their interactions are a pending issue
 in coastal marine ecosystem services research, as well as the integration
 of multiple temporal and spatial scales. The failure to integrate multiple
 driver and scale complexity limits our understanding of reality and
 results in high levels of uncertainty and deficient coastal ecosystem
 service management. Policies and management actions, which are based on
 the information provided by coastal marine ecosystem services research
 suffer from great uncertainty levels. To fill this gap, we propose a
 framework to guide future marine ecosystem services research in the
 integration of multiple driver dynamics, and temporal and spatial scales.
description: This systematic literature review followed the PRISMA statement
 (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses) as
 means to ensure scientific robustness and reproductivity. The PRISMA
 checklist and the review protocol can be found in the supplementary
 material of the publication <strong>[DOI to be
 provided].</strong> To identify relevant
 literature, we have conducted a bibliographic search in the Scopus
 database on coastal marine ecosystem services and four main drivers that
 may affect them: dissolved nutrient concentrations (eutrophication or
 de-eutrophication), temperature (warming), pH (acidification), and oxygen
 concentration (hypoxia). We limited our bibliographical search to any
 peer-reviewed publication published from 2004 (year of the first paper
 found) to November of 2020. The search string contained
 following terms in the keywords “coastal” and “marine”, and terms related
 to drivers or stressors in the tittle, key words or abstract, Table
 1. Table 1. Search string 
 Title 
 Key words 
 Title, abstract, key words 
 Limit to 
 "ecosystem service*" 
 "coastal" OR "marine" 
 “ocean acidification" OR "sea” “surface
 temperature" OR "deoxygenation" OR "ocean
 warming" OR "hypoxia" OR "acidification"   OR
 "sea level rise" OR "temperature" OR
 "eutrophication" OR "human impact*" OR
 "impact*" OR "stressor*" OR "multiple
 stressors" OR "cumulative impact*" OR "multi
 stressors" OR "multiple impacts" OR "climate
 change" OR "global change" OR "global warming" 
 OR "human impact*" OR "anthropogenic
 impact*" LANGUAGE,
 "English" 
 We defined the following inclusion criteria: (1)
 analyse/ evaluate/ conceptualize/ map/ quantify/ drivers of coastal marine
 ecosystems services; (2) publications in peer-reviewed journals; (3)
 publications written in English; and (4) papers focused on coastal marine
 areas.  We analysed 23 variables and their
 corresponding response categories to assess how drivers are integrated
 into coastal marine ecosystem service research. Afterwards, we reviewed
 all the manuscripts and filled the database. We used basic descriptive
 statistics to summarize the basic features of the data collected, e.g.,
 count and percentages.
description: # How are the impacts of multiple anthropogenic drivers considered in
 marine ecosystem service research? A systematic literature review
 In this dataset you can
 find 4 different files: *
 Data_file._Results_of_database_search_string.xlsx: is the first necessary
 DATA file, which contains the results of all the papers found in Scopus
 using this search string. We limited our bibliographical search to any
 peer-reviewed publication published from 2004 (the year of the first paper
 found) to November 2020. To identify relevant literature, we have
 conducted a bibliographic search in the Scopus database with the following
 search string: | Title | Key words | Title, abstract, keywords | Limit to
 | | :-------------------- | :-------------------- |
 :---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | :------------------ | | "ecosystem service\*" | "coastal" OR "marine" | “ocean acidification" OR "sea” “surface temperature" OR "deoxygenation" OR "ocean warming" OR "hypoxia" OR "acidification"   OR "sea level rise" OR "temperature" OR "eutrophication" OR "human impact\*" OR "impact\*" OR "stressor\*" OR "multiple stressors" OR "cumulative impact\*" OR "multi stressors" OR "multiple impacts" OR "climate change" OR "global change" OR "global warming"  OR "human impact\*" OR "anthropogenic impact\*" | LANGUAGE, "English" | * Data_file._Selected_publications_for_review.xlsx: is the second necessary DATA file, which contains all the papers finally used for this review, after excluding the papers that did not meet the follwoing criteria: (1) analyze/evaluate/conceptualize/map/quantify drivers of coastal marine ecosystems services; (2) publications in peer-reviewed journals; (3) publications written in English; and (4) papers focused on coastal marine areas.