River Restoration Units

Database on River Restoration Units (R2U) for European sea outlet basins that contain at least a segment of Strahler value 3 or more. The database covers all sea outlet basins occurring in current and former European Union Member States' territory. Contains three spatial layers; the European basins (Basins_EU.shp), the R2U drainage areas (R2U_ID_drainage_areas.shp) and the R2U watercourses (R2U_Watercourses.shp); and four tables: Member States coding (MS_coding), R2U characterization (R2U_Features), Connection between River Restoration Units ID and Member States ID (R2U_to_MS_ID), and the R2U typology (Unit_typology).

Funding:The development of this dataset was funded by MERLIN, a project funded under the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 programme under grant agreement No 101036337. Forest Research Centre (CEF) is a research unit funded by Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia I.P. (FCT), Portugal (UID/00239: Centro de Estudos Florestais). The Associate Laboratory Laboratory for Sustainable Land Use and Ecosystem Services – TERRA is funded by the FCT (LA/P/0092/ 2020). GD has been financed by FCT within the project project Dammed Fish (PTDC/CTA-AMB/4086/2021 – DOI: 10.54499/PTDC/CTA-AMB/4086/2021). AP is currently supported by a postdoctoral research scholarship under the project: mainstreaming ecological restoration of freshwater-related ecosystems in a landscape context. Innovation, upscaling, and transformation (101036337—MERLIN—H2020-LC-GD-2020). TL was supported by a PhD grant from the FLUVIO–River Restoration and Management program funded by Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia I. P. (FCT), Portugal (UI/BD/15052/2021). PB is financed by national funds via FCT (LA/P/0092/2020). AF was funded by the Christian Doppler Research Association (CD Laboratory MERI) as well as FB who was also supported by the AQUAINFRA project (grant agreement No 101094434).