What evidence exists on the impacts of human activities on biodiversity and carbon capacity in North-East Atlantic blue carbon ecosystems: a systematic map protocol

A systematic map on existing evidence of human impacts on the biodiversity and carbon capacity of blue carbon ecosystems in the North-East Atlantic will be conducted using relevant bibliographic databases and a web-based search engine. All searches will be conducted in English and will gather peer reviewed publications from 1980 to 2024. The resulting literature will be screened by two independent screeners at the level of title and abstract followed by full text against a set of eligibility criteria (i.e. population, intervention, outcome, study type). Metadata will be extracted from studies that meet the eligibility criteria and summarize with heatmaps, bar plots, geographic distribution maps, and tabular summaries.