How are the impacts of multiple anthropogenic drivers considered in marine ecosystem service research? A systematic literature review

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 limita..., 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 [DOI to be provided].
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

Titl..., , # 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:

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