On the relativity and efficacy of restoration in stream networks: comment

R code and associated data for a letter to the editor on a paper by Christopher Swan and Bryan Brown titled "Metacommunity theory meets restoration: isolation may mediate how ecological communities respond to stream restoration." I provide a commentary and critique of the paper by offering a re-analysis of the data, with hypotheses and interpretation in the context of stream, metacommunity, and restoration ecology. I show that results can depend on the sites and concomitant restoration treatments. I highlight limitations of the experimental design and how liberal usage of restoration without considering how individual and combinations of treatments could affect the study system. Moreover, I show that the efficacy of restoration is relative, dependent on which sites are included in the analysis. Importantly, I show that the results presented in the original paper and erratum are not reproducible.<br>These data were provided with the initial manuscript by Christopher M. Swan and Bryan L.Brown (Swan and Brown 2017), and are also provided here for ease of the reader.<br> If the data are re-used, please cite the proper source: Swan, C. M., and B. L. Brown. 2017. Metacommunity theory meets restoration: isolation may mediate how ecological communities respond to stream restoration. Ecological Applications 27:2209-2219.<br>