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NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water
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Aquatic Macroinvertebrates of NSW (1994 - ongoing)

The dataset contains information on aquatic macroinvertebrates that has been collected under the Monitoring River Health Project (1994-2000), the Sustainable Rivers Audit (2002-2012) and the Monitoring Evaluating and Reporting (MER) program (2006 ongoing) across the whole of NSW. The data were collected using the AUSRIVAS protocols (available at http://ausrivas.canberra.edu.au/Bioassessment/Macroinvertebrates/) which includes in situ water quality measurements, site habitat assessment and macroinvertebrate data. The dataset has a latitude and longitude and site access information for every sample site.

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Language English
Edition Unknown
Purpose The data are collected to inform state and federal programs that monitor river health, including the NSW State of Environment Report, Monitoring Evaluating and Reporting catchment report cards, and the MDBA Sustainable Rivers Audit.
Frequency of change As needed
Keywords FAUNA-Invertebrates
Field of Research (optional) Freshwater Ecology
Metadata Date 2008-08-13
Date of Asset Creation 2008-08-13
Date of Asset Publication 2018-12-17
Date of Next Update 2019-03-01
License Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
Equivalent Scale 25000
Geospatial Topic Biota
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Dataset extent

Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
Temporal Coverage From 1994-01-01 - 2010-01-06
Datum GDA94 Geographic (Lat\Long)
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Attribution NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water asserts the right to be attributed as author of the original material in the following manner: "© State Government of NSW and NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water 2018"