Evidence Synthesis in Environmental Sciences - ENR 4999H - Honors Research With Distinction

Acknowledgements

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Resources for Evidence Synthesis in Environmental Sciences

Center for Environmental Evidence
The Collaboration for Environmental Evidence (CEE) is an open community of scientists and managers working towards a sustainable global environment and the conservation of biodiversity. They provide guidelines, standards and tools for evidence synthesis in environmental management.

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Pullin, A. S., Frampton, G. K., Livoreil, B., & Petrokofsky, G., eds. (2018). Guidelines and Standards for Evidence synthesis in Environmental Management. Version 5.0.

Reporting Standards and Guidelines

Center for Environmental Evidence - Information for Authors
Resources for evidence synthesis authors.
ROSES (Reporting standards for Systematic Evidence Syntheses)
Standards, guidelines and forms for researchers performing systematic reviews or or mapping in environmental fields.
PRISMA
The PRISMA statement is the main reporting standard for evidence synthesis. The acronym refers to Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses. In addition to the main PRISMA statement there are many extensions for other methodologies; these are notated by a suffix.

Guidance, Tools and Standards by Review Type

Guidance by Methology
Detailed list of references by review type, from the University of Minnesota Libraries.