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Table 1 List of literature sources that were systematically searched for relevant studies

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

Literature source

Web of Science Core Collectionab

Scopusb

Databases within the Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts publisher platform ProQuestb

Collaboration for Environmental Evidence libraryc

INSITE database and websitec

Environmental Studies Program Information System (ESPIS) repositoryd

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

Wageningen University & Research repositoryd

Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Science repositoryd

Alfred Wegener Institute repositoryd

Royal Netherlands Institute of Sea Research (NIOZ) repositoryd

Collaborative Offshore Wind Research Into The Environment database (COWRIE)c

Nature-based Solutions Initiative evidence platformc

  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. dSources where keywords searches were used