Systematic literature review results from Web of Science after being screened for content and scored for categories relating to adaptive capacity and adaptive potential. The dataset contains the following columns:

• STUDY_ID: Study ID number

• REVIEWERS: Person who reviewed

• index: ID from abstract_screener

• AB: Abstract

• AU: Authors

• DI: DOI

• ID: Keyword Plus

• PY: Publication Year

• SC: Research Areas

• SO: Publication Name

• TI: Title

• WC: Web of Science Categories

• AP_AC: Adaptive Potential or Adaptive Capacity

• Count: Number of times AP or AC terms are used

• Climate_Change_Spec: Focused on climate change? Yes/No

• TI_AB_Only: Term only in title or abstract

• Method: Method to assess

• Taxa: Taxa of research

• Meth details: Detailed notes on the methods

• Scale_Geo: Geographic scale (rangewide, 1 population, 2 populations, or many)

• Scale_Unit_Max_W: Rough estimate, width of study sites

• Scale_Unit_Max_H: Rough estimate, length of study sites

• Sum_Area: W x H for area estimate