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75 years of dryland science 

Ver: 1
Status of Data: completed
Update Frequency: notPlanned
Security Classification: unclassified
Record Last Modified: 2025-12-02
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Accessed 4 times
Dataset Created: 2015-12-31
Dataset Published: 2017-01-29
Data can be accessed from the following links:
HTTPPoint-of-truth metadata URLHTTPGlobal_drylands_abstractsHTTPro-crate-metadata.json
How to cite this collection:
Greenville, A. (2017). 75 years of dryland science. Version 1. Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network. Dataset. https://dx.doi.org/10.4227/05/588e6a779edf5 
This dataset contains global dryland literature abstracts from over the last 75 years (8218 articles) to identify areas in arid ecology that are well studied and topics that are emerging. 
Credit
We at TERN acknowledge the Traditional Owners and Custodians throughout Australia, New Zealand and all nations. We honour their profound connections to land, water, biodiversity and culture and pay our respects to their Elders past, present and emerging. 
Purpose
Growth in the publication of scientific articles is occurring at an exponential rate, prompting a growing need to synthesize information in a timely manner to combat urgent environmental problems and guide future research. 
Lineage
Meta-analysis: To review the literature on arid ecology we searched the ISI Web of Science with the following keywords: arid and ecology and terrestrial. We sorted articles by relevance and exported all articles with their abstracts from 1940 up to the end of 2015. Our search returned 9175 articles from this period. We removed articles with abstracts that did not share common words, resulting in 8218 articles and 49 913 shared words. 
Method DocumentationData not provided.
Procedure StepsData not provided.
Global dataset on published literature.
Temporal Coverage
From 1940-01-01 to 2015-12-31 
Spatial Resolution

Data not provided.

Vertical Extent

Data not provided.

ANZSRC - FOR
Terrestrial ecology
GCMD Sciences
ENVIRONMENTAL ADVISORIES - DROUGHT
LAND SURFACE - LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY
Horizontal Resolution
> 1000 km or > 10 degrees
Parameters
individual count
Temporal Resolution
one off
Topic
environment
User Defined
Arid ecology
Literature Review
Author
Greenville, Aaron
Contact Point
Greenville, Aaron
Publisher
Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network
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Please cite this dataset as {Author} ({PublicationYear}). {Title}. {Version, as appropriate}. Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network. Dataset. {Identifier}. 
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