Corridors of River Recovery for NSW Southern Rivers Catchments

A geospatial database identifying potential corridors for river recovery in the freshwater streams of New South Wales Southern Rivers catchments. It was created by Macquarie University researchers in 2022 using the NSW River Styles database accessed in January 2021. The data supports systematic analysis for conservation and rehabilitation planning.

Use Cases

• Prioritizing river rehabilitation projects based on identified conservation, strategic, and high recovery potential targets.
• Building resilience against floods and droughts by connecting corridors of geomorphic river recovery.
• Running user-defined scenarios (over 80 possible) to identify connections of interest for specific management goals.
• Seeding and extending recovery from isolated river loci into adjacent reaches.

Strengths

• Based on the peer-reviewed, Open Access NSW River Styles database.
• Includes a published GIS workflow for identifying corridors across landscapes.
• Covers all freshwater stream length within the specified NSW Southern Rivers catchments.
• Funded by an Australian Research Council Linkage project with industry partners.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• The underlying River Styles database snapshot is from January 2021; conditions may have changed.

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.

Time Range

Underlying source data accessed January 2021.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-12 20:14:58.473527; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Freshwater stream length of the NSW Southern Rivers catchments, Australia.