Coding Tool
The following information will be entered into the systematic map database for all included studies that are available and deemed as relevant at full text:
- Author email
- Location (free text)
- Latitude (decimal degrees)
- Longitude (decimal degrees)
- Country
- Climate zone (Köppen-Geiger)
- Field topography (slope in degrees)
- Fertiliser type (organic, inorganic, not described)
- N fertiliser quantity (kg/ha/yr)
- P fertiliser quantity (kg/ha/yr)
- Soil classification (free text; quote)
- Soil texture sand (%)
- Soil texture silt (%)
- Soil texture clay (%)
- Soil organic matter (% or g/kg) (or SOC and state SOC)
- Farming system (conventional, organic, not described)
- Farming production system (grazed fields, cropped fields (arable), horticulture, viticulture, fruit (orchard), grazed grassland, un-grazed grassland, not described) [multiple choice tickbox]
- Intervention management type (unmanaged, sown, grazed, cut, harvested, soil disturbance, amendment, managed (other), not described) [multiple choice tickbox]
- Vegetated strip location (within field, field edge, riparian, not described) [multiple choice tickbox]
- Vegetated strip age at final sampling (years)
- Vegetated strip width (m)
- Vegetated strip length (m)
- Ratio of vegetated strip size to field size (strip:field; number)
- Vegetated strip name (short description; quote)
- Intervention management description (free text)
- Study description (free text)
- Vegetated strip vegetation type (grasses, set-aside, wildflowers, woody, not described) [multiple choice tickbox]
- Measurement season (spring, summer, autumn, winter, not described) [multiple choice tickbox]
- Study design (observational, experimental)
- Study period (years)
- Intervention start date (year)
- Sampling start date (year)
- Sampling end date (year)
- Replication (true spatial sample size; number)
- Replication (temporal; number)
- Scale (plot, field, farm, catchment, regional) [multiple choice tickbox]
- Comparator (without vegetated strip, different strip width, different management (intensity/type/vegetation), before strip establishment, upstream of strip, no comparator (effectiveness under different agricultural management practices), not described) [multiple choice tickbox]
- Measured outcome [expanded iteratively, not exclusive] (biodiversity (aquatic), biodiversity (semi-terrestrial), biodiversity (terrestrial), economic (farming), game habitat, nutrients n, nutrients p, pathogens, pesticides, recreation, social (other), soil loss, toxins, water retention) [multiple choice tickbox]
- Measured outcome description (free text)
- Data location (figure, table, text, supplementary information)
- Critical appraisal notes (free text; major confounders and possible reasons for exclusion)