Effectiveness of management interventions for control of invasive Common ragweed Ambrosia artemisiifolia: A systematic review protocol
Stefan Schindler1,2*
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Helen R. Bayliss3
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Franz Essl1,2
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Wolfgang Rabitsch1
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Swen Follak4
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Andrew S. Pullin3
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1Environment Agency Austria, Department of Biodiversity and Nature Conservation, Spittelauer Lände 5, 1090 Vienna, Austria
2University of Vienna, Division of Conservation Biology, Vegetation and Landscape Ecology, Rennweg 14, 1030 Vienna, Austria
3Centre for Evidence-Based Conservation, School of the Environment, Natural Resources and Geography, Bangor University, Bangor LL57 2UW, UK
4Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety, Institute for Sustainable Plant Production, Spargelfeldstraße 191, 1220 Vienna, Austria
Additional file 1: Documentation of scoping to optimize the search strategy.
Original search in Thomson Reuters Web of Science (November 2015)
TS = ((“Ambrosia artemisiifolia” OR “common ragweed” OR “Ambrosia elatior”) AND (“management” OR “control” OR “removal” OR “damage” OR “burning” OR “heating” OR “mowing” OR “tillage” OR “ploughing” OR “grubbing” OR “hoeing” OR “hand pulling” OR “cutting” OR “clipping” OR “crop rotation” OR “thermal treatment” OR “hot steam” OR “flaming” OR “establishment of closed vegetation” OR “out-compete” OR “Lolium” OR “Dactylis” OR “Medicago” OR “herbicide” OR “2,4-D*” OR “imazamox” OR “tribenuron-methyl” OR “glyphosate” OR “glufosinate” OR “atrazine” OR “linuron” OR “triazine” OR “ALS-inhibitor” OR “acetolactate synthase” OR “natural enem*” OR “Tarachidia” OR “Zygogramma” OR “Ophraella” OR “Pustula” OR “Albugo” OR “noctuid moth” OR “leaf beetle”)) / start / 1187 / 4/10*
TS = ((“Ambrosia artemisiifolia” OR “common ragweed” OR “Ambrosia elatior”) AND (“management” OR “control”)) / Delete all management terms except management and control / 1048 / 5/10*
TS = ((“Ambrosia artemisiifolia” OR “common ragweed”) AND (“management” OR “control”)) / Deleted “Ambrosia elator” – better to keep this synonym / 1011 / 5/10*
Adding single intervention terms to the basic search / Description / Extra hits compared to basic search (n=1048 hits) / Relevance of hits
TS = ((“Ambrosia artemisiifolia” OR “common ragweed” OR “Ambrosia elatior”) AND (“management” OR “control” OR "removal")) / extra term with low specificy / 13 / 2/13**
TS = ((“Ambrosia artemisiifolia” OR “common ragweed” OR “Ambrosia elatior”) AND (“management” OR “control” OR "damage")) / important extra term, but relatively low specificy / 30 / 4/10***
TS = ((“Ambrosia artemisiifolia” OR “common ragweed” OR “Ambrosia elatior”) AND (“management” OR “control” OR "burning")) / not relevant extra term / 2 / 0/2 **
TS = ((“Ambrosia artemisiifolia” OR “common ragweed” OR “Ambrosia elatior”) AND (“management” OR “control” OR "heating")) / No additional hit / 0 / 0 ****
TS = ((“Ambrosia artemisiifolia” OR “common ragweed” OR “Ambrosia elatior”) AND (“management” OR “control” OR "mowing")) / maybe relevant extra term / 5 / 2/5 **
TS = ((“Ambrosia artemisiifolia” OR “common ragweed” OR “Ambrosia elatior”) AND (“management” OR “control” OR "tillage")) / maybe relevant extra term / 12 / 10/12 **
TS = ((“Ambrosia artemisiifolia” OR “common ragweed” OR “Ambrosia elatior”) AND (“management” OR “control” OR "ploughing")) / not relevant extra term / 1 / 1/1 **
TS = ((“Ambrosia artemisiifolia” OR “common ragweed” OR “Ambrosia elatior”) AND (“management” OR “control” OR "grubbing")) / No additional hit / 0 / 0 ****
TS = ((“Ambrosia artemisiifolia” OR “common ragweed” OR “Ambrosia elatior”) AND (“management” OR “control” OR "hoeing")) / No additional hit / 0 ****
TS = ((“Ambrosia artemisiifolia” OR “common ragweed” OR “Ambrosia elatior”) AND (“management” OR “control” OR "hand pulling")) / not relevant extra term / 0 / 0 ****
TS = ((“Ambrosia artemisiifolia” OR “common ragweed” OR “Ambrosia elatior”) AND (“management” OR “control” OR "cutting")) / not relevant extra term / 3 / 1/3 **
TS = ((“Ambrosia artemisiifolia” OR “common ragweed” OR “Ambrosia elatior”) AND (“management” OR “control” OR "clipping")) / not relevant extra term / 1 / 1/1 **
TS = ((“Ambrosia artemisiifolia” OR “common ragweed” OR “Ambrosia elatior”) AND (“management” OR “control” OR "crop rotation")) / maybe relevant extra term / 5 / 3/5 **
TS = ((“Ambrosia artemisiifolia” OR “common ragweed” OR “Ambrosia elatior”) AND (“management” OR “control” OR "thermal treatment")) / No additional hit / 0 / 0 ****
TS = ((“Ambrosia artemisiifolia” OR “common ragweed” OR “Ambrosia elatior”) AND (“management” OR “control” OR "hot steam")) / No additional hit / 0 / 0 ****
TS = ((“Ambrosia artemisiifolia” OR “common ragweed” OR “Ambrosia elatior”) AND (“management” OR “control” OR "flaming")) / No additional hit / 0 / 0 ****
TS = ((“Ambrosia artemisiifolia” OR “common ragweed” OR “Ambrosia elatior”) AND (“management” OR “control” OR "establishment of closed vegetation")) / No additional hit / 0 / 0 ****
TS = ((“Ambrosia artemisiifolia” OR “common ragweed” OR “Ambrosia elatior”) AND (“management” OR “control” OR "out-compete")) / No additional hit / 0 / 0 ****
TS = ((“Ambrosia artemisiifolia” OR “common ragweed” OR “Ambrosia elatior”) AND (“management” OR “control” OR "Lolium")) / important extra term with low specificity / 32 / 2/10***
TS = ((“Ambrosia artemisiifolia” OR “common ragweed” OR “Ambrosia elatior”) AND (“management” OR “control” OR "Dactylis")) / extra term with very low specificity / 17 / 0/10***
TS = ((“Ambrosia artemisiifolia” OR “common ragweed” OR “Ambrosia elatior”) AND (“management” OR “control” OR "Medicago")) / extra term with low specificity / 10 / 1/10**
TS = ((“Ambrosia artemisiifolia” OR “common ragweed” OR “Ambrosia elatior”) AND (“management” OR “control” OR "herbicide")) / important extra term / 25 / 7/10 ***
TS = ((“Ambrosia artemisiifolia” OR “common ragweed” OR “Ambrosia elatior”) AND (“management” OR “control” OR "2,4D*")) / maybe relevant extra term / 4 / 1/4 **
TS = ((“Ambrosia artemisiifolia” OR “common ragweed” OR “Ambrosia elatior”) AND (“management” OR “control” OR "imazamox")) / not relevant extra term / 1 / 1/1 **
TS = ((“Ambrosia artemisiifolia” OR “common ragweed” OR “Ambrosia elatior”) AND (“management” OR “control” OR "tribenuron-methyl")) / No additional hit / 0 / 0 ****
TS = ((“Ambrosia artemisiifolia” OR “common ragweed” OR “Ambrosia elatior”) AND (“management” OR “control” OR "glyphosate")) / important extra term / 11 / 6/11 **
TS = ((“Ambrosia artemisiifolia” OR “common ragweed” OR “Ambrosia elatior”) AND (“management” OR “control” OR "glufosinate")) / maybe relevant extra term / 3 / 2/3 **
TS = ((“Ambrosia artemisiifolia” OR “common ragweed” OR “Ambrosia elatior”) AND (“management” OR “control” OR "atrazine")) / maybe relevant extra term / 5 / 1/5 **
TS = ((“Ambrosia artemisiifolia” OR “common ragweed” OR “Ambrosia elatior”) AND (“management” OR “control” OR "linuron")) / maybe relevant extra term / 3 / 2/3 **
TS = ((“Ambrosia artemisiifolia” OR “common ragweed” OR “Ambrosia elatior”) AND (“management” OR “control” OR "triazine")) / not relevant extra term / 1 / 0/1 **
TS = ((“Ambrosia artemisiifolia” OR “common ragweed” OR “Ambrosia elatior”) AND (“management” OR “control” OR "ALS-inhibitor")) / No additional hit / 0 / 0 ****
TS = ((“Ambrosia artemisiifolia” OR “common ragweed” OR “Ambrosia elatior”) AND (“management” OR “control” OR "acetolactate synthase")) / not relevant extra term / 2 / 1/2 **
TS = ((“Ambrosia artemisiifolia” OR “common ragweed” OR “Ambrosia elatior”) AND (“management” OR “control” OR "natural enem*")) / important extra term / 11 / 9/11 **
TS = ((“Ambrosia artemisiifolia” OR “common ragweed” OR “Ambrosia elatior”) AND (“management” OR “control” OR "Tarachidia")) / No additional hit / 0 / 0 ****
TS = ((“Ambrosia artemisiifolia” OR “common ragweed” OR “Ambrosia elatior”) AND (“management” OR “control” OR "Zygogramma")) / important extra term / 28 / 3/10 ***
TS = ((“Ambrosia artemisiifolia” OR “common ragweed” OR “Ambrosia elatior”) AND (“management” OR “control” OR "Ophraella")) / Most important extra term / 34 / 6/10 ***
TS = ((“Ambrosia artemisiifolia” OR “common ragweed” OR “Ambrosia elatior”) AND (“management” OR “control” OR "Pustula")) / No additional hit / 0 / 0 ****
TS = ((“Ambrosia artemisiifolia” OR “common ragweed” OR “Ambrosia elatior”) AND (“management” OR “control” OR "Albugo")) / not relevant extra term / 1 / 1/1 **
TS = ((“Ambrosia artemisiifolia” OR “common ragweed” OR “Ambrosia elatior”) AND (“management” OR “control” OR "noctuid moth")) / not relevant extra term / 1 / 0/1 **
TS = ((“Ambrosia artemisiifolia” OR “common ragweed” OR “Ambrosia elatior”) AND (“management” OR “control” OR "leaf beetle")) / important extra term with high specificity / 24 / 9/10***
Adding treatment terms “forward stepwise” / Descrition / Total hits / Relevance of hits
TS = ((“Ambrosia artemisiifolia” OR “common ragweed” OR “Ambrosia elatior”) AND (“management” OR “control” OR "Ophraella")) / Most important extra term / 1082 / 6/10 ***
TS = ((“Ambrosia artemisiifolia” OR “common ragweed” OR “Ambrosia elatior”) AND (“management” OR “control” OR "Ophraella" OR "leaf beetle")) / Several relevant extra hits / 1093 / 7/10***
TS = ((“Ambrosia artemisiifolia” OR “common ragweed” OR “Ambrosia elatior”) AND (“management” OR “control” OR "Ophraella" OR "leaf beetle" OR "herbicide")) / Several relevant extra hits / 1104 / 7/10 ***
TS = ((“Ambrosia artemisiifolia” OR “common ragweed” OR “Ambrosia elatior”) AND (“management” OR “control” OR "Ophraella" OR "leaf beetle" OR "herbicide" OR “damage”)) / Several relevant extra hits / 1115 / 6/10 ***
TS = ((“Ambrosia artemisiifolia” OR “common ragweed” OR “Ambrosia elatior”) AND (“management” OR “control” OR "Ophraella" OR "leaf beetle" OR "herbicide" OR “damage” OR “tillage”)) / Several relevant extra hits 1120 / 1120 / 4/5 **
TS = ((“Ambrosia artemisiifolia” OR “common ragweed” OR “Ambrosia elatior”) AND (“management” OR “control” OR "Ophraella" OR "leaf beetle" OR "herbicide" OR “damage” OR “tillage” OR “natural enem*”)) / Three relevant extra hits / 1124 / 3/4 **
TS = ((“Ambrosia artemisiifolia” OR “common ragweed” OR “Ambrosia elatior”) AND (“management” OR “control” OR "Ophraella" OR "leaf beetle" OR "herbicide" OR “damage” OR “tillage” OR “natural enem*” OR "glyphosate")) / No extra hit with “glyphosate” / 1124 / 0 ****
TS = ((“Ambrosia artemisiifolia” OR “common ragweed” OR “Ambrosia elatior”) AND (“management” OR “control” OR "Ophraella" OR "leaf beetle" OR "herbicide" OR “damage” OR “tillage” OR “natural enem*” OR "Zygogramma")) / Three relevant extra hits / 1130 / 3/6 **
TS = ((“Ambrosia artemisiifolia” OR “common ragweed” OR “Ambrosia elatior”) AND (“management” OR “control” OR "Ophraella" OR "leaf beetle" OR "herbicide" OR “damage” OR “tillage” OR “natural enem*” OR "Zygogramma" OR “Lolium”)) / Low specificity, but one highly relevant paper in the sample of 10 / 1149 / 1/10***
TS = ((“Ambrosia artemisiifolia” OR “common ragweed” OR “Ambrosia elatior”) AND (“management” OR “control” OR "Ophraella" OR "leaf beetle" OR "herbicide" OR “damage” OR “tillage” OR “natural enem*” OR "Zygogramma" OR “Lolium” OR “crop rotation”)) / Potential for relevant extra hits / 1151 / 1/2**
TS = ((“Ambrosia artemisiifolia” OR “common ragweed” OR “Ambrosia elatior”) AND (“management” OR “control” OR "Ophraella" OR "leaf beetle" OR "herbicide" OR “damage” OR “tillage” OR “natural enem*” OR "Zygogramma" OR “Lolium” OR “crop rotation” OR “removal”)) / Low specificity, but one relevant paper in the sample of 8 / 1159 / 1/8**
TS = ((“Ambrosia artemisiifolia” OR “common ragweed” OR “Ambrosia elatior”) AND (“management” OR “control” OR "Ophraella" OR "leaf beetle" OR "herbicide" OR “damage” OR “tillage” OR “natural enem*” OR "Zygogramma" OR “Lolium” OR “crop rotation” OR “removal” OR “mowing”)) / Two relevant additional hits / 1162 / 2/3**
TS = ((“Ambrosia artemisiifolia” OR “common ragweed” OR “Ambrosia elatior”) AND (“management” OR “control” OR "Ophraella" OR "leaf beetle" OR "herbicide" OR “damage” OR “tillage” OR “natural enem*” OR "Zygogramma" OR “Lolium” OR “crop rotation” OR “removal” OR “mowing” OR "glufosinate")) / No additional hit / 1162 / 0 ****
TS = ((“Ambrosia artemisiifolia” OR “common ragweed” OR “Ambrosia elatior”) AND (“management” OR “control” OR "Ophraella" OR "leaf beetle" OR "herbicide" OR “damage” OR “tillage” OR “natural enem*” OR "Zygogramma" OR “Lolium” OR “crop rotation” OR “removal” OR “mowing” OR "linuron")) / No additional hit / 1162 / 0 ****
TS = ((“Ambrosia artemisiifolia” OR “common ragweed” OR “Ambrosia elatior”) AND (“management” OR “control” OR "Ophraella" OR "leaf beetle" OR "herbicide" OR “damage” OR “tillage” OR “natural enem*” OR "Zygogramma" OR “Lolium” OR “crop rotation” OR “removal” OR “mowing” OR "ploughing")) / No additional hit / 1162 / 0 ****
TS = ((“Ambrosia artemisiifolia” OR “common ragweed” OR “Ambrosia elatior”) AND (“management” OR “control” OR "Ophraella" OR "leaf beetle" OR "herbicide" OR “damage” OR “tillage” OR “natural enem*” OR "Zygogramma" OR “Lolium” OR “crop rotation” OR “removal” OR “mowing” OR "clipping")) / No additional hit / 1162 / 0 ****
TS = ((“Ambrosia artemisiifolia” OR “common ragweed” OR “Ambrosia elatior” OR “weed”) AND (“management” OR “control” OR "Ophraella" OR "leaf beetle" OR "herbicide" OR “damage” OR “tillage” OR “natural enem*” OR "Zygogramma" OR “Lolium” OR “crop rotation” OR “removal” OR “mowing”)) / Adding “weed” yields too many irrelevant hits / Approximately 183 000 / n.a.
Proposed search string (November 2015)
TS = ((“Ambrosia artemisiifolia” OR “common ragweed” OR “Ambrosia elatior”) AND (“management” OR “control” OR "Ophraella" OR "leaf beetle" OR "herbicide" OR “damage” OR “tillage” OR “natural enem*” OR "Zygogramma" OR “Lolium” OR “crop rotation” OR “removal” OR “mowing”)) / Including “mowing” but excluding the last tested terms that did not yield any extra hits / 1162
Improvements and additional tests after first peer review (April 2016)
Thomson Reuters Web of Science: www.webofscience.com/
TS = ((“Ambrosia artemisiifolia” OR “common ragweed” OR “Ambrosia elatior”) AND (“management” OR “control” OR "Ophraella" OR "leaf beetle" OR "herbicide" OR “damage” OR “tillage” OR “natural enem*” OR "Zygogramma" OR “Lolium” OR “crop rotation” OR “removal” OR “mowing”)) / No change; same string 5 months later / 1210 / 5/10 *
TS = ((“Ambrosia artemisiifolia” OR “common ragweed*” OR “Ambrosia elatior”) AND (“manage*” OR “control” OR "Ophraella" OR "leaf beetle*" OR "herbicid*" OR “damag*” OR “till*” OR “natural enem*” OR "Zygogramma" OR “Lolium” OR “crop rotat*” OR “remov*” OR “mow*”)) / More wildcards added / 1237 / 3/10 ***
SCOPUS: advanced search: http://www.scopus.com/search/form.uri?display=advanced&clear=t&origin=searchbasic&txGid=0
TITLE-ABS-KEY(("Ambrosia artemisiifolia" OR "common ragweed*" OR "Ambrosia elatior") AND ("manage*" OR "control" OR "Ophraella" OR "leaf beetle*" OR "herbicid*" OR "damag*" OR "till*" OR "natural enem*" OR "Zygogramma" OR "Lolium" OR "crop rotat*" OR "remov*" OR "mow*")) / Total hits in Scopus / 422 / 6/10
TITLE-ABS-KEY(("Ambrosia artemisiifolia" OR "common ragweed*" OR "Ambrosia elatior") AND ("manage*" OR "control" OR "Ophraella" OR "leaf beetle*" OR "herbicid*" OR "damag*" OR "till*" OR "natural enem*" OR "Zygogramma" OR "Lolium" OR "crop rotat*" OR "remov*" OR "mow*")) / Additional hits in “Scopus secondary” / 133 / 9/10
MEDLINE: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/advanced
("Ambrosia artemisiifolia"[Title/Abstract] OR "common ragweed"[Title/Abstract] OR "Ambrosia elatior"[Title/Abstract]) AND ("management"[Title/Abstract] OR "control"[Title/Abstract] OR "Ophraella"[Title/Abstract] OR "leaf beetle*"[Title/Abstract] OR "damage"[Title/Abstract] OR "tillage"[Title/Abstract] OR "Zygogramma"[Title/Abstract] OR "Lolium"[Title/Abstract] OR "removal"[Title/Abstract] OR "mowing"[Title/Abstract]) / Total hits in MEDLINE / 47 / 1/10 *
CAB Direct: http://www.cabdirect.org/advancedsearch.html
(ab:("Ambrosia artemisiifolia" OR "common ragweed*" OR "Ambrosia elatior") OR title:("Ambrosia artemisiifolia" OR "common ragweed*" OR "Ambrosia elatior") AND ab:(“manage*” OR “control” OR "Ophraella" OR "leaf beetle*" OR "herbicid*" OR “damag*” OR “till*” OR “natural enem*” OR "Zygogramma" OR “Lolium” OR “crop rotat*” OR “remov*” OR “mow*”) OR title:(“manage*” OR “control” OR "Ophraella" OR "leaf beetle*" OR "herbicid*" OR “damag*” OR “till*” OR “natural enem*” OR "Zygogramma" OR “Lolium” OR “crop rotat*” OR “remov*” OR “mow*”)) / Total hits in CABI / 499 / 6/10
ProQuest Agricola: http://search.proquest.com/agricola/advanced/
(("Ambrosia artemisiifolia" OR "common ragweed*" OR "Ambrosia elatior") AND ("manage*" OR "control" OR "Ophraella" OR "leaf beetle*" OR "herbicide*" OR "damage*" OR "till*" OR "natural enem*" OR "Zygogramma" OR "Lolium" OR "crop rotate*" OR "remove*" OR "mow*")) / Total hits in ProQuest Agricola / 233 / 9/10 *
ProQuest Dissertations and Theses: http://search.proquest.com/pqdt/advanced/dissertations/fromDatabasesLayer?accountid=14682
(("Ambrosia artemisiifolia" OR "common ragweed*" OR "Ambrosia elatior") AND ("manage*" OR "control" OR "Ophraella" OR "leaf beetle*" OR "herbicide*" OR "damage*" OR "till*" OR "natural enem*" OR "Zygogramma" OR "Lolium" OR "crop rotate*" OR "remove*" OR "mow*")) / Total hits in ProQuest Dissertations and Thesis / 61
[n=61 for “all fields except full text; n>1300 for all fields] / 5/10*
OpenGrey: www.opengrey.eu
Ambrosia OR Ragweed / Total hits in OpenGrey / 13 / 3/13 **
Google scholar: https://scholar.google.at/
management OR control OR Ophraella OR leaf OR beetle OR herbicide OR damage OR tillage OR "natural enemies" OR Zygogramma OR Lolium OR "crop rotation" OR removal OR mowing "Ambrosia artemisiifolia" / Total hits in gogole scholar / about 13000 / 2/10 *
* The 10 newest articles were assessed