AMBER Atlas of Instream Barriers in Europe

A geo-referenced database of 629,955 unique artificial instream barriers in 36 European countries produced by the AMBER Project (Adaptive Management of Barriers in European Rivers) funded under European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation program, grant agreement No 689682<br>Data for Figure 1 and Table 1. Unique records of artificial instream barriers in Europe (from the AMBER BarrierAtlas)<br>Data for Figure 2, Extended Data Figure 4 and Extended Data Figure 5: Observed barrier densities, ground-truthed barrier densities, and modelled barrier densities for aggregated ECRINS sub-basins, including model inputs and residuals.<br>Data for Figure 3: Extent of barrier under-reporting.<br>Data for Extended Data Table 1 and Extended Data Figure 3. Results of river walkover surveys used to ground-truth barrier records<br>Extended Data Table 2. Comparisons of barrier densities (barriers per kilometre) in Europe and elsewhere using a common river network (HydroSHEDS)<br>Extended Data Table 3. Incidence of barrier duplicates and duplicate exclusion criteria.<br>Extended Data Figure 2: height of artificial barriers &gt; 0.1 m found in European rivers<br>GIS data for Extended Data Figure 3: location of test reaches used to ground truth the AMBER Barrier Atlas during walkover surveys.<br>Extended Data Figure 4f: Mean Decrease Impurity (MDI) of barrier density model parameters<br>Barrier Database sources for Table 1. <br>Published in Nature: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-3005-2<br>See also https://amber.international/