2.1) Search results
The initial search in WOS and SCOPUS yielded 4282 and 4082 respectively. To narrow down our search results we confined returned results to the field of ecology, plant sciences, environmental sciences, biodiversity conservation and entomology in WOS and environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences in SCOPUS. This returned 2757 in WOS and 3694 in SCOPUS, in addition to the 150 from Google Scholar. After duplicates were remove a total of 2928 papers were screened using the below screening process and criteria.