How effective are interventions to reduce damage to agricultural crops from herbivorous wild birds and mammals? A systematic review protocol.

ABSTRACT:

Background

An important conservation challenge is to mitigate negative impacts that wild birds and mammals can have on human practices and livelihoods, and not least on agricultural crops. Technical interventions to limit the number and severity of damages are available, but evaluations of intervention effectiveness are usually limited in scope, and meta-analyses are rare. This protocol describes a systematic review that seeks to answer the following question: How effective are evaluated interventions in reducing damage from herbivorous wild birds and mammals on agricultural crops?

Methods

The literature searches are made in the databases Scopus and Zoological Record. The search string is based on a Population-Intervention-Comparator-Outcome (PICO) formatted research questio

SUBMITTER: Eklund A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11378812 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature