Preprint: Data on Peer Reviewed Papers about Recreational Disturbance of Coastal Avifauna

: This data descriptor summarizes the process applied to identify, screen, select and gather data from the content of 142 peer-reviewed papers/sources that report on the sources and impacts of recreational disturbance on coastal avifauna. While populations of resident and migratory coastal avifauna are under threat and diminishing rapidly across the planet, and particularly in association with Asian flyways, many governments are leveraging booming global demand for coastal recreation and tourism in order to deliver economic development to regional communities. The summary data shared via this data description was extracted from papers collected in a systematic literature review that was designed to explore the global literature on the recreational disturbance of coastal avifauna in order to elucidate the state of the global knowledge regarding this issue and to identify management strategies that could be applied at tropical Asian destinations to minimize the impacts of recreational disturbance and thus enhance the ecological sustainability of coastal recreation and tourism across the region. The data shared via the Excel worksheet associated with this data descriptor was extracted from peer-reviewed articles published in English between 1 January 2000 and the 31 December 2018 with the full text of the article available online. These articles were found by searching several online indexing several databases including Scopus, Web of Science, ProQuest and Google Scholar. Dataset: The dataset is published a supplement to this Data Descriptor.


Summary
Against a backdrop of a world-wide decline in the abundance of coastal avifauna, especially amongst populations of migratory species, many governments are leveraging booming global demand for coastal recreation and tourism to deliver economic development communities living in coastal areas [1][2][3][4][5][6][7].The provision of infrastructure and increased human use of coastal areas arising from the development of recreation and tourism can significantly degrade the quality of highly diverse and fragile ecosystems of coastal areas [8][9][10].Those coastal ecosystems, especially shorelines and wetlands, are significant habitats for avifauna, providing stop-over sites for migratory bird species and are essential for shorebird breeding, roosting and foraging [11,12].
In addition to the impacts of habitat loss, coastal avifauna are disturbed by the plethora of recreational activities that humans are enjoying in coastal environs, forcing birds to leave the area temporarily or permanently depending on the severity of the disturbance [8,13].Ecological disturbance is defined as the disruption of the normal activity or physiology of an animal in response to stimuli [14,15].Cayford [16] defined recreational disturbance of avifauna to be any relatively discrete event that disrupts ecosystems, communities or populations, where disruption refers to a change in behaviour, physiology, abundance or survival of individuals or groups of birds.Many authors have reported that recreational disturbance is a major threat to coastal avifauna [e.g. 17 -20].
Publication of this dataset has the potential to benefit others who are researching, planning, developing and managing coastal areas, especially in relation to the provision of recreational and tourism opportunities and the conservation and protection of coastal avifauna.

Data Description
The data were manually extracted from each of the 142 peer-reviewed papers included in the systematic review of Marasinghe et al. [8] and captured in Microsoft Excel that is shared as a worksheet in the supplementary materials associated with this data descriptor.The metadata for that worksheet are provided in Table 1.
The Abstract for each paper included in the systemic literature review was also captured and was used to inform the review article of Marasinghe et al. [8], but has been excluded from this data set for reasons of copyright.

Methods
Similar to the methods reported in the MDPI published reviews of Parker, Patroni, Walker and others [21][22][23][24] and the Data Descriptor of Simpson and others [25,26], the data reported in this data descriptor was gathered as part of a systematic quantitative literature review that was based on the approach of Pickering and Byrne [27] and the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews (PRISMA) guidelines [28].
The systematic quantitative literature review that we report in Marasinghe et al. [8] explored the following five research questions: 1.Where is the current research into the recreational disturbance of birds that use the coastal habitats being conducted?2. What are the reported sources of recreational disturbance for birds using coastal habitats?3. What are the reported impacts of recreational disturbance for birds using coastal habitats?4. What management strategies are recommended to reduce the recreational disturbance of birds using coastal habitats? 5. What are the implications of this systematic quantitative literature review for the management of recreational disturbance of birds using coastal zones in Tropical Asia?

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Learnings for the conservation and/or protection on the tropical Asian region derived from the paper.
Academic publications were identified by manually searching the Google Scholar, ProQuest, Scopus, and Web of Science indexing databases using the combination of search terns shown in Table 2.The other parameters initially specified to identify the papers that would be manually screened for inclusion in the systemic review were that publications should be peer-reviewed material published in the period from 1 January 2000 to 31 December 2018 with the full text available online.The PRISMA flow diagram for the systematic review reported in Marasinghe et al. [8] is shown in Figure 1.

Table 2.
Search terms used to identify papers included in the literature review.Potential papers were filtered using the primary AND secondary search term in the preliminary search.

Figure 1 :
Figure 1: PRISMA flow diagram of the systemic process for paper identification and selection for inclusion in quantitative literature review article.