Corridors of River Recovery for NSW Central Coast Catchments

Macquarie University researchers created a geospatial database identifying corridors of river recovery for all freshwater stream length in the NSW Central Coast catchments. The database, accessed in January 2021, shows the spatial distribution of thirteen connections based on combinations of conservation, strategic, and high recovery potential targets. The work is published in two Open Access papers and funded by an Australian Research Council Linkage project.

Use Cases

• Prioritizing river rehabilitation projects based on identified recovery potential classes.
• Building resilience against floods and droughts by analyzing connected corridors of recovery.
• Running user-defined scenarios for river management using the provided GIS workflow.
• Identifying strategic locations for conservation efforts to seed and extend river recovery.

Strengths

• Database covers all freshwater stream length of the NSW Central Coast catchments.
• Workflow allows users to run over 80 different user-defined scenarios.
• Data is associated with two published Open Access papers and a documented workflow.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Freshness should be verified; the underlying River Styles database was accessed in January 2021.

Provenance

Source

Macquarie University, D Agnew and K Fryirs (2022)

Collection Method

Analysis undertaken in ArcGIS using the recovery potential layer of the Open Access NSW River Styles database from DPIE.

Freshness

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Geography

NSW Central Coast catchments, Australia