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Table 2 List of literature sources that will be systematically searched for relevant studies

From: Evidence for the effects of decommissioning man-made structures on marine ecosystems globally: a systematic map protocol

Priority sources to search

Secondary sources to search

Web of Science Core Collectionab

Wageningen University & Research repositoryc

Scopusb

Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Science repositoryc

Databases within the Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts publisher platform ProQuestb

Alfred Wegener Institute repositoryc

Collaboration for Environmental Evidence libraryc

Royal Netherlands Institute of Sea Research repositoryc

INSITE database and website

Collaborative Offshore Wind Research Into The Environment database (COWRIE—publications only)

Environmental Studies Program Information System (ESPIS)c

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairsd

Centre for Environment, Fisheries & Aquaculture Science (Cefas Publication Hub)c

Joint Nature Conservation Committeed

 

Marine Scotlandd

 

Natural Resources Wales – Marine and coastal evidence reportsc

 

English Nature Access to Evidenced

 

Environment Agencyd

 

Marine Management Organisationd

 

International Council for the Exploration of the Sead

 

Helsinki Convention (HELCOM)c

 

Oslo-Paris Commission (OSPAR)c

 

Applied Ecology Resourcesc

 

Nature-based Solutions Initiative evidence platform

 

BSH (Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency)

 

Offshore Petroleum Regulator for Environment and Decommissioning (OPRED)

  1. aWoS was searched using the University of Plymouth subscription, citation indices are listed in Additional file 2
  2. bSources searched using the agreed search string (or a variant thereof)
  3. cSources where our search string could not be entered and a manual hand-search was performed
  4. dWhere institutions were contacted directly to ask for their relevant publications