A global systematic review of the cultural ecosystem services provided by wetlands

Field: Environmental Science (Physical Sciences)

This repository contains the data and R code associated with our publication "A global systematic review of the cultural ecosystem services provided by wetlands", published in Ecosystem Services: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2024.101673This repository contains the following files:
1) Data extraction sheets.xlsxThis file shows the MS Excel sheets that were used by the researchers assessing relevant studies to extract the required data. The first sheet contains the instructions that the researchers received. The second sheet This file contains the data extracted from each relevant paper identified during our systematic review. The third sheet contains the data on the country affiliations of each author of each relevant paper included in our systematic review. The fourth sheet contains the list of recreational activities that were recorded from each of the papers which reported one or more type of leisure activity. The fifth sheet contains list data which is used in the drop-down menus found in the second sheet; these restricted the countries, CES types and wetland types that could be entered by the researcher filling in the data extraction sheet.
2) CES Review Script.RThis file contains the R code that was used to run the statistical analyses reported in our paper, along with the R code used to create the figures that were produced using R (the other figures were created using menu-based programs such as SigmaPlot v.14, for which no code was used). In order to run this script you will also need the data contained within file #3 ("CESData.csv").
3) CESData.csvThis file contains the data that was associated with the R code found in file #2 ("CES Review Script.R"). Columns A:C contain the data on the numbers of wetland CES studies conducted in each country, which were used in the creation of the world map. Columns D:S contain the data on the numbers of studies conducted in each country that reported each type of CES, which were not used in the creation of any figures but are included for completeness. Columns T:U contain the data on the proportions of CES studies conducted in each country for which there was no in-country author, which were used in the creation of the world authorship practices figure. Columns V:Y contain the data used in the analysis of the open access publication practices within the CES literature, as described in the manuscript. Columns Z:AC contain the data used in the analysis of authorship practices within the CES literature, as described in the manuscript. Columns AD:AF contain the data used to create the figure showing the temporal trends in the numbers of published papers which reported each type of CES. Columns AG:AR contain the data used to create the figures showing the continent-specific temporal trends in authorship practices. Finally, columns AS:BI contain the data used to create the figures showing the continent-specific temporal trends in open-access publications (n.b. column AG is also required to produce these figures).
4) Economic valuation data.xlsxThis MS Excel spreadsheet contains two worksheets. The first worksheet, "Systematic review data", contains the economic valuation data extracted from each relevant paper in our systematic review, along with the information used in the calculations that we used to convert each valuation from its original currency to GBR sterling, and to adjust the value with inflation to a value representative of March 2023. The second worksheet, "Discussion comparisons", contains the economic valuations originally reported by de Groot et al. 2012 ( https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2012.07.005 ), which we mention in our discussion. Here, we report the information used in the calculations that we used to convert each valuation from its original currency to GBR sterling, and to adjust the value with inflation to a value representative of March 2023. Similarly, we also include details of our comparisons with Brander et al. (2024) and Ghermandi and Sinclair (2024).
5) Literature screening results.xlsxThis MS Excel spreadsheet contains three works sheets, which detail the outcomes of the sequential rounds of screening of the results of our literature searches based on (i) paper titles, (ii) paper abstracts, and finally (iii) paper full texts. Each sheet reports the citation information of each paper, along with whether or not the paper was judged to be relevant to our review. All non-relevant papers were not considered further. See manuscript for further details of the literature searches and screening processes.