2017 ASHS Annual Conference

A gap analysis was performed to evaluate the available research regarding the environmental benefits of gardens and landscapes. Some of the article databases and indices that were accessed include: AGRICOLA which covers citations and abstracts for articles from over 600 periodicals, as well as USDA and state experiment station and extension publications, and selected books from 1970 – present; CAB Abstracts which covers agriculture in the broadest sense from 1973 –present; University of Minnesota Garden, Landscape and Horticulture index which includes articles about gardens and plants over 430 core titles; LexisNexis for newspaper articles; University of Minnesota Agriculture and Environmental database which the renowned AGRICOLA, ESPM, and EIS databases and provides full-text titles from around the world, including scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, government publications, and more. General keywords used for searches included “horticulture,” “consumer horticulture,” variations on “garden” and “environment;” and “climate change." Citation abstracts were reviewed and those most pertinent were stored on Zotero, a free citation manager that Zotero automatically senses content (PDFs, images, audio, video, etc.) accessed, allows the user to add it to their library and enables groups to share and access materials easily. A summary of research techniques, findings, and gaps identified will be presented.