Table 2 Subject, intervention, outcome and comparator search elements
Search element | Definition |
|---|---|
Subject (population) | All countries and marine, freshwater and terrestrial realms. Studies published between 1983 and 2017 |
Intervention | Systematic conservation planning: a process for locating and implementing conservation actions where: (a) the benefits of conservation actions are specified either as threshold amounts of natural features to be represented or as continuous functions with increasing amounts of features; and (b) the outputs are one or more optimal or near optimal sets of spatially-bounded conservation actions |
Comparator | Comparisons over time, and/or between control and intervention groups and/or sites without systematic conservation planning or with another form of planning |
Outcome | Studies measuring changes in the condition of one or more of the following forms of capitals: natural, financial, social, human and institutional (either quantitatively or qualitatively) |