Summary of Prioritization Approaches for River Barrier Restoration in Western Washington

A 5.5 KB Excel file authored by Sunny L. Jardine, last updated in June 2026, summarizes evaluations of heuristic approaches for prioritizing river barrier restoration. The data benchmarks common heuristics against optimization outcomes for anadromous fish passage in western Washington, USA, showing that some heuristics can achieve 93% of optimal habitat gains.

Use Cases

• Benchmarking heuristic prioritization rules against optimization outcomes based on the described case study.
• Evaluating the impact of habitat quality proxies on restoration performance based on the analysis of natural land cover.
• Designing improved heuristics for freshwater biodiversity investments based on the findings about targeting high-quality habitat.

Strengths

• Specific performance metrics are provided, such as a heuristic achieving 93% of optimal gains.
• Focuses on a concrete case study of anadromous fish passage restoration in western Washington, USA.
• Released under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license for reuse.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The 5.5 KB size indicates a very limited scope, likely containing summary results rather than raw data.

Provenance

Source

figshare, authored by Sunny L. Jardine.

Collection Method

Likely contains summarized results from a comparative analysis of restoration prioritization methods.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2026-06 03 17:24:32; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Western Washington, USA.