Table 2.

The geographic and taxonomic coverage of systematic reviews of conservation evidence

			Geographic	Taxa of	Taxonomic
Reference	Review topic	Places of interest	coveragea (%)	interest	coverageb (%)
Abella 2009	effects of fire on vegetation in the Mohave and Sonoran Deserts	U.S.A.	1	plants	CBCc
Bayard & Elphick 2010	effects of fragmentation on birds	global	CBCc	birds	10
Benitez-Lopez et al. 2009	effects of roads and other infrastructure on mammal and bird populations	global	9	mammals and birds	1
Bowler et al. 2012	effects of community forest management on global environmental benefits and local welfare	global	5	CBCc	CBCc
Brooks et al. 2006	effects of development on ecological, economic, attitudinal, and behavioral outcomes	global	7	NAd	NAd
Bussell et al. 2010	effects of draining and re-wetting peatland soils on carbon stores and greenhouse gas fluxes	global	6	bogs, fens and mires	47
Dalrymple et al. 2011	effects of reintroductions on plant extinctions	global	7	plants	<1
Davies & Pullin 2007	effects of hedgerows on movement between fragments of woodland habitat	North America, Europe	19	woodland species	CBCc
Davies et al. 2008	effects of current management recommendations on saproxylic invertebrates	global	4	saproxylic invertebrates	CBCc
Doerr et al. 2010	effects of structural connectivity on the dispersal of native species in Australia’s fragmented landscapes	Australia	100	Australian flora and fauna	1
Eycott et al. 2012	effects of landscape matric features on species movement	global	10	fauna	<1
Frampton & Dorne 2007	effects on invertebrates of pesticide usage at crop edges	global	<1	terrestrial invertebrates	<1
Gusset et al. 2010	effects of wild dog (Lycaon pictus) reintroductions in South Africa	South Africa	100	wild dogs (L. pictus)	100
Holt et al. 2008	effects of predation on prey abundance in the United Kingdom	U.K.	50	vertebrates	3
Isasi-Catalá 2010	effects of translocating problematic jaguars (Panthera onca) on human-predator conflicts	South and Central America	18	jaguar (P. onca)	100
Kabat et al. 2006	effects of control and eradication interventions on Japanese knotweed (Fallopia japonica)	Australia, Europe, North America, New Zealand	15	Japanese knotweed (F. japonica)	100
Kalies et al. 2010	effects of thinning and burning in southwestern conifer forests on wildlife density and populations in the United States	U.S.A.	100	birds, mammals, reptiles, amphibians in southwestern conifer forests, U.S.A.	16
Kettenring & Adams 2011	effects of control on invasive plant species	global	13	Plants	4
Mant et al. 2011	effects of liming streams and rivers on fish and invertebrates	Europe, North America	9	fish and invertebrates	CBCc
Martinez-Abrain et al. 2010	effects of recreational activities on nesting birds of prey	global	6	birds of prey	4
McLeod et al. 2008	effects of controlling European red foxes (Vulpes vulpes) biological diversity and agricultural production in Australia	Australia	100	Australian birds, mammals, reptiles, amphibians, livestock, invertebrates, poultry	18
Newton et al. 2009	effects of grazing on lowland heathland in northwest Europe	Europe	12	lowland heathland	CBCc
Oro & Martínez-Abraín 2007	effects of large gulls on sympatric threatened waterbirds	Europe, Africa	11	threatened waterbirds	100
Peppin et al. 2010	effects of postwildfire seeding in forests of the western United States	U.S.A.	100	forest species	CBCc
Radwan et al. 2010	effects of reduced major histocompatibility complex diversity on vertebrate populations	global	10	vertebrates	<1
Roberts & Pullin 2006	effects of different management on Spartina species	global	3	Spartina alternifolia, S. anglica, S. densiflora, S. patens, S. x townsendii	40
Roberts & Pullin 2007a	effects of management interventions on ragwort species	U.K., Ireland, North America, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Argentina	83	ragwort (Senecio jacobaea and S. aquaticus)	100
Roberts & Pullin 2007b	effects of land-based schemes (incl. agri-environment) on farmland bird densities in the United Kingdom	U.K.	100	farmland birds in the United Kingdom	31
Showler et al. 2010	effects of public access on ground-nesting and cliff-nesting birds	global	6	ground-nesting and cliff-nesting birds	CBC
Smith et al. 2010	effects of predator removal on bird populations	global	6	birds	1
Smith et al. 2011	effects of nest predator exclusion on bird populations	global	2	birds	<1
Stacey et al. 2011	effects of arid land springs restoration on hydrology, geomorphology, and invertebrate and plant species composition	Europe, North and South America, Australasia	6	invertebrate and plant species associated with land springs	CBCc
Stewart & Pullin 2008	effects of grazing stock type and intensity on the conservation of mesotrophic old- meadow pasture	U.K.	20	mesotrophic “old meadow” pasture community	100
Stewart et al. 2005	effects of moorland burning in heath and bogs on biological diversity and effects of burning on blanket bog	U.K., Ireland	60	bogs, heaths, and montane communities	37
Stewart et al. 2007a	effects of wind farms on birds	global	4	Birds	23
Stewart et al. 2007b	effectiveness of Asulam for bracken (Pteridium aquilinum) control in the United Kingdom	U.K.	75	bracken (P. aquilinum)	100
Stewart et al. 2007c	effects of salmonid stocking in lakes on native fish populations and other fauna and flora	global	2	freshwater fishes, reptiles, amphibians, invertebrates, and flora	<1
Stewart et al. 2009a	global ecological effects of temperate marine reserves	global	4	marine fishes, algae, and invertebrates	2
Stewart et al. 2009b	effects of engineered in-stream structure on salmonid abundance	global	4	salmon species, trout species and Cottus gobio	12
Timonen et al. 2011	woodland key habitats as biological diversity hotspots in boreal forests	Sweden, Finland, Norway, Denmark, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Russia	38	boreal forest species	CBCc
Tyler et al. 2005	effects of management interventions on American mink (Mustela vison) populations	Europe, North America	21	American mink (M. vison)	100
Tyler et al. 2006	effects of management interventions on Rhododendron ponticum	U. K., Ireland, Austria, Belgium, France, Netherlands, New Zealand	40	R. ponticum	100
Waylen et al. 2010	effects of local cultural context on community-based conservation interventions	global	16	NAd	NAd

^aPercentage of relevant countries represented in the meta-analysis.

^bPercentage of relevant species represented in the meta-analysis.

^cCould not be calculated.

^dNot applicable.