Table 4 List of inclusion criteria at the stage of abstract screening

Relevant population(s)

All vertebrate biodiversity (at the species, community and ecosystem level), including exotic invasive species

Types of exposure/intervention

Any article exposing biodiversity to a LTI verge (road, railway, power line or pipeline verges or waterway banks), to a LTI verge management (mowing, pesticide spreading, pruning, planting, fence laying, beehive setting up, bird nesting box and bat roosting box hanging, reptile artificial refuge setting up, etc.) or to a LTI verge disturbance (chemical, air, noise and light pollution and wildfires)

Types of comparator

Unexposed/intervention-free control site or before-exposure/before-intervention control site

Types of outcome

All outcomes relating to corridor and habitat assessment or effects of verge management, such as dispersal (including species invasions, hydrochory and seed dispersal by vehicles), species richness, Shannon index, Simpson index, beta diversity, community composition and abundance of different taxonomic or functional groups of organisms

Types of study

All type of studies should be included apart from modelling (theoretical) articles, articles making recommendations without making experimentation and articles making experimentations in laboratory conditions