Supporting data and methodological records for Reservoirs as conditional adaptation infrastructure under climate change: A systematic review of sustainable water systems in South America

This dataset contains the supporting data and methodological records for the systematic review “Reservoirs as conditional adaptation infrastructure under climate change: A systematic review of sustainable water systems in South America”. The review synthesises evidence from 48 primary research studies addressing reservoirs, climate-related pressures and adaptation in South America. Searches covered Scopus, Web of Science Core Collection, SciELO Citation Index and Redalyc, with the final search update completed on 3 September 2026. The ZIP archive contains search strategies and logs; source-export records; PRISMA identification, deduplication, screening, retrieval and full-text eligibility records; the master extraction matrix with 44 variables; operational coding definitions and derived analyses; final domain-based appraisal profiles, rationales and source locators; Supplementary Tables S1 - S3; and the manuscript figures and Tables 1–4. The final appraisal comprises 480 categorical judgements across the 48 included studies. Study_ID provides the linking identifier across the records. The original Adaptation_Outcome and Evidence_Strength classifications are retained separately from the complementary domain-based appraisal. The Excel workbooks retain their formulas to support verification and reproducibility. Abstract text has been omitted from the public source-export and study-selection files, as documented in the accompanying notices. Recorded DOI identifiers and source URLs are retained to support bibliographic traceability. Publication funding for the associated review is provided by Universidad Técnica de Ambato, through its Research and Development Directorate (DIDE), and Universidad Estatal Amazónica. B.P.-B. also acknowledges financial support from Universidad Técnica de Ambato through its doctoral mobility programme under HCU Resolution No. 1886-CU-P-2018.