Fig 1.
(A) A barchart showing the scientific fields that experts (n = 23) have worked in. These are the fields that we identified as relevant for this study, rather than a comprehensive list of all scientific fields. The “Other” scientific field denotes a free text field that one responded used to fill in the field “Agroecology and Ecosystem Service Management”. (B) A world map using Goode’s Homolosine projection, which accurately shows country sizes. Latitude and longitude are shown in grey lines and countries are outlined in black. Brown colour shows the number of experts (n = 23) with affiliations in each country. Team members could select multiple countries and scientific fields. The map was produced using the R packages Tidyverse [46], rworldmap [47] and Simple Features [48].
Fig 2.
A composite figure showing the expertise and experience of respondents to the wider-community survey (n = 345).
(a) A world map using Goode’s Homolosine projection, which accurately shows country sizes. Latitude and longitude are shown in grey lines and countries are outlined in black. Brown colour shows the number of respondents with affiliations in each country. (b,d,e) Venn diagrams showing how many respondents have: (b) published, reviewed, or edited agroecological research; (d) conducted research in polar and subpolar, temperate, subtropical or tropical regions; (e) conducted research in agroforestry, arable, pastoral or mixed agricultural systems. Circle areas (area) show the number of respondents in each category, which is written in black. Overlapping circles indicate cases where respondents chose multiple categories. (c) A barchart showing the scientific fields that respondents have worked in. These are the fields that we identified as relevant for this study, rather than a comprehensive list of all scientific fields. Respondents could select multiple answers to all questions. The map was produced using the R packages Tidyverse [46], rworldmap [47] and Simple Features [48].
Fig 3.
Barcharts showing respondents (n = 345) answers to questions about reporting guidelines (RG) and reporting standards (RS) via an online survey.
Colours show responses and numbers indicate number of respondents. Questions were optional, and some respondents did not answer all questions. (a) Dashed grey line indicates the maximum number of respondents that answered these questions (108), as respondents were only asked this question if they answered “yes” to having heard of reporting guidelines before. (b) Shows responses to the statement “Rate the current standard of reporting in agroecological studies.”; the bars follow the order in the legend, with excellent at the top and very poor at the bottom. Questions are given in full in SI 4 in S1 File.
Table 1.
AgroEcoList 1.0.