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INSITE Phase 2 Report 2024

INSITE Phase 2 Report 2024: Understanding the influence of man-made structures in the marine environment

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

ICES Journal Of Marine Science Volume 77, Issue 3, May-June 2020

A themed set compilation of research relating to the impact of manmade installations and considerations for decommissioning

Marine stepping stones: Connectivity of Mytilus edulis populations between offshore energy installations

Coolen, JWP, Boon, AR, Crooijmans, R, et al.

Social network analysis as a tool for marine spatial planning: Impacts of decommissioning on connectivity in the North Sea.

Hannah Tidbury, Nick Taylor, Johan van der Molen, Luz Garcia, Paulette Posen, Andrew Gill, Susana Lincoln, Adrian Judd and Kieran Hyder

Oil and gas platforms as artificial substrates for epibenthic North Sea fauna: Effects of location and depth

Miriam Schuttera, Martijn Dorenbosch, Floor M.F.Driessen, Wouter Lengkeek, Oscar G.Bos, Joop W.P.Coolen

The Ecology of Infrastructure decommissioning in the North Sea: What we need to know and how to achieve it

A M Fowler, A-M Jørgensen, J W P Coolen, D O B Jones, J C Svendsen, R Brabant, B Rumes, S Degraer

Low genetic connectivity in a fouling amphipod among man-made structures in the southern North Sea

Pieternella C. Luttikhuizen, Jan Beermann, Richard P. M. A. Crooijmans, Robbert G. Jak, Joop W. P. Coolen

An efficient multi-objective optimisation method for use in the design of marine protected area networks.

Fox AD, Corne DW, Mayorga Adame CG, Polton JA, Henry L-A, Roberts JM (2019)

Sensitivity of marine protected area network connectivity to atmospheric variability.

Fox A, Henry L-A, Corne DW, Roberts JM (2016). Royal Society Open Science 3: 160494

Connectivity of larval stages of sedentary marine communities between hard substrates and offshore structures in the North Sea

Johan van der Molen, Luz María García-García, Paul Whomersley, Alexander Callaway, Paulette E. Posen and Kieran Hyder

Distribution of the invasive Caprella mutica Schurin, 1935 and native Caprella linearis (Linnaeus, 1767) on artificial hard substrates in the North Sea: separation by habitat

Joop W.P. Coolen, Wouter Lengkeek, Steven Degraer, Francis Kerckhof, Roger J. Kirkwood and Han J. Lindeboom

North Sea Reefs. Benthic biodiversity of artificial and rocky reefs in the southern North Sea

Joop Coolen

First record of Harmothoe aspera (Hansen, 1879) (Polychaeta: Polynoidae) in the Dutch North Sea

Martijn Spierings, Inês Maria Dias, Joop W.P Coolen, Babeth van der Welde and Joël Cuperus

Ocean sprawl facilitates dispersal and connectivity of protected species

Lea-Anne Henry, Claudia G. Mayorga-Adame, Alan D. Fox, Jeff A. Polton, Joseph S. Ferris, Faron McLellan, Chris McCabe, Tina Kutti and J. Murray Roberts

Data challenges and opportunities for environmental management of North Sea oil and gas decommissioning in an era of blue growth

Fiona Murray, Katherine Needham, Kate Gormley, Sally Rouse, Joop W.P.Coolen, David Billett, Jennifer Dannheim, Silvana N.R.Birchenough, Kieran Hyder, Richard Heard, Joseph S.Ferris, Jan M.Holstein, Lea-Anne Henry, Oonagh McMeel, Jan-Bart Calewaert, and J. Murray Roberts

Impact of an artificial structure on the benthic community composition in the southern North Sea: assessed by a morphological and molecular approach

Lise Klunder, Marc S S Lavaleye, Amalia Filippidi, Judith D L van Bleijswijk, Gert-Jan Reichart, Henk W van der Veer, Gerard C A Duineveld, Furu Mienis and Handling editor: Silvana Birchenough

Benthic biodiversity on old platforms, young wind farms, and rocky reefs

Joop W P Coolen, Babeth van der Weide, Joël Cuperus, Maxime Blomberg, Godfried W N M Van Moorsel, Marco A Faasse, Oscar G Bos, Steven Degraer, Han J Lindeboom and Handling editor: Joanna Norkko

Structure in a sea of sand: fish abundance in relation to man-made structures in the North Sea

Serena R Wright, Christopher P Lynam, David A Righton, Julian Metcalfe, Ewan Hunter, Ainsley Riley, Luz Garcia, Paulette Posen, Kieran Hyder and Handling editor: Steven Degraer