Publication (Technical report): Assessment of River Condition: An Audit of the Ecological Condition of Australian Rivers
| Publication Type: | Technical report / Consultancy |
| Publication Name: | Assessment of River Condition: An Audit of the Ecological Condition of Australian Rivers |
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| Norris, R., Prosser, I., Young, B., Liston, P., Bauer, N., Davies, N., Dyer, F., Linke, S. and Thoms, M (2001) Assessment of River Condition: An Audit of the Ecological Condition of Australian Rivers. Final Report submitted to the National Land and Water Resources Audit Office. September 2001. |
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Assessment of River Condition: an audit of the ecological condition of Australian rivers
The assessment of river condition focuses on the aggregate impacts of resource use on Australia's rivers.
Integrated assessments such as this one provide a basin-wide context and framework within which decisions and river management priorities can be considered.
The assessment incorporates a range of attributes that are considered to indicate key ecological processes at the river reach and basin levels.
The two indices developed are an Aquatic Biota Index using macroinvertebrates, and an Environment Index with four sub-indices:
- catchment disturbance;
- hydrological disturbance;
- habitat; and
- nutrient and suspended sediment load.
The river basins assessed include areas that contain intensive land use and selected areas of non-intensive land use such as part of the Northern Territory and the western division of the Murray-Darling Basin. Whole river basins were used so that processes such as hydrology and sediment and nutrient movement could be modelled and balanced over entire catchments.
Report authors: R.Norris*, I. Prosserc, B. Youngc, P. Liston*, N. Bauer*, N. Davies*, F. Dyer*, S. Linke* and M. Thoms*
* CRC for Freshwater Ecology
c CSIRO Land & Water, Canberra
The report is available on the web site of the National Land and Water Resources Audit, at
http://audit.ea.gov.au/ANRA/water/water_frame.cfm?region_type=AUS®ion_code=AUS&info=river_assessment
where it is broken up into parts suitable for web.
The full project report is available on the same site, at
http://audit.ea.gov.au/ANRA/water/docs/river_assessment/River_assessment.pdf |
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| Partner organisation: | CSIRO L&W |
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| Created: | 09/10/2004 04:04 PM |
| Lodged by: | Gail Ransom |
| Last modified: | 03/18/2005 01:18:32 PM |
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| Document Id: | 04E3B05DA9E88672CA256F0B002169B0 |