Ecology Data
Some examples of databases that can have relevance to the aquatic ecology of a catchment include:
Assessment of river condition
National River Health Program
Australia's Rivers and Catchment Condition maps rivers based on a disturbance index to identify priority undisturbed (wild) rivers.
NLWRA Australian Catchment, River and Estuary Assessment 2002 assessed the condition of about 14,000 river reaches across the more intensively used catchments using a national protocol based on a combined aquatic biota and environment index.
Survey of wetlands or other environmental assets
Australian Wetlands Database of 63 Ramsar-listed wetlands as well as nationally important wetlands.
Protected Matters Search Tool is a database of locations of places such as World Heritage properties, Ramsar wetlands, threatened species or protected areas, which may be relevant in determining obligations under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999.
Collections relating to specific genera
Australian Museum maintains separate databases on birds, crustacea, aquatic invertebrates and fishes etc.
Australian Biodiversity Information Facility (ABIF)
Species Bank.
Australian Aquatic Invertebrate Web Keys provides information on the macroscopic invertebrate taxa occurring in Australian inland waters.
Australia's Virtual Herbarium (AVH) is a botanical information resource incorporating 6 million specimen records developed by a consortium of Australian herbaria.
NSW Department of Primary Industries maintain various databases relating to stocking rates, population studies, kills, protected species sightings and resources of fish.
NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service is the custodian of data relating to an annual waterbird survey across eastern Australia.
South Australia Frog Census is an annual frog census coordinated by the SA Environmental Protection Agency.