River Recovery Corridors for NSW Lower North Coast Catchments

A geospatial database for all freshwater stream length of the NSW Lower North Coast catchments, showing corridors of river recovery. It was created by Macquarie University researchers in 2022 using the NSW River Styles database accessed in January 2021. The database identifies thirteen specific connections based on conservation, strategic, and high recovery potential targets.

Use Cases

• Prioritizing river rehabilitation projects based on identified corridors of geomorphic recovery.
• Analyzing spatial connectivity for river resilience using defined reach and loci connections.
• Running user-defined scenarios for river management planning using the provided GIS workflow.
• Identifying strategic locations for conservation efforts based on recovery potential classes.

Strengths

• Based on the Open Access NSW River Styles database, a foundational geomorphic dataset.
• Includes a published GIS workflow enabling users to run over 80 different scenarios.
• Funded by an Australian Research Council Linkage project with industry partners.
• Published in two Open Access papers in PLoS ONE, providing academic validation.

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 data was accessed in January 2021.

Provenance

Source

Macquarie University, D Agnew and K Fryirs (2022). Data accessed from The Sharing and Enabling Environmental Data Portal.

Collection Method

Analysis undertaken in ArcGIS using the recovery potential layer of the NSW River Styles database.

Freshness

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Geography

NSW Lower North Coast catchments, Australia.