SoE2020: Pressures Affecting Riverine Ecosystems in Queensland

Sediment, nutrients, pesticides, and riparian forest loss are the major catchment pressures impacting Queensland's freshwater rivers. The dataset is published by the Queensland Department of Environment, Science and Innovation under a CC-BY-4.0 license. It was last updated on May 12, 2026.

Use Cases

• Ranking regional environmental threats based on pressure variables like sediment and nutrient loads.
• Modeling the impact of riparian forest loss on freshwater river health.
• Comparing the relative importance of catchment pressures like pesticides across different Queensland regions.

Strengths

• Published by a government environmental science department, suggesting authoritative sourcing.
• Released under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license for broad reuse.
• Explicitly identifies four major pressure categories: sediment, nutrients, pesticides, and riparian forest loss.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

Environment, Tourism, Science and Innovation (Queensland Government)

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-12 03:22:48.872223; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Queensland, Australia