Murrumbidgee Wetlands Monitoring Data for Water Quality and Ecology

Fifteen wetlands in the Murrumbidgee valley were studied from 1998 to 2010. The dataset contains monitoring records for water quality, wetland invertebrates, hydrology, floodplain vegetation, and frog communities. It was published by the NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water.

Use Cases

• Analyze long-term water quality trends in floodplain billabongs based on monitoring data from 1998-2010.
• Model relationships between river hydrology and wetland invertebrate communities based on the stratified random site selection.
• Assess frog population dynamics in palaeochannel wetlands based on community monitoring records.

Strengths

• Monitoring spans multiple years across 1998-2001, 2005, and 2010.
• Covers five distinct ecological and physical domains: water quality, invertebrates, hydrology, vegetation, and frogs.
• Focuses on a specific wetland type: floodplain billabongs and palaeochannel wetlands watered by river flows.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect geographic and temporal bias inherent to data_gov_au.

Provenance

Source

NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water

Collection Method

Field monitoring of selected wetlands.

Time Range

1998-2001, 2005, 2010

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-12 14:20:02.665144; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Murrumbidgee valley, from upstream of Wagga Wagga to downstream of Hay, Australia