Water

Publications

River Health in the New South Wales Lower North Coast, Hunter and Central Coast Catchments

A report of AusRivAS assessments 1994 - 1999
Grant Hose and Eren Turak
Environment Protection Agency, 2004
ISBN 0 642 55099 9 ISSN 1447-1280

5. References

ANZECC/ARMCANZ 2001. Water Quality Guidelines for Fresh and Marine Waters. Australian and New Zealand Environment and Conservation Council, Canberra.

Chessman B.C. Rapid assessment of rivers using macroinvertebrates. A procedure based on habitat-specific sampling, family-level identification and a biotic index. Australian Journal of Ecology. 20: 122-129.

Chessman B.C. 2003. SIGNAL 2.iv - A Scoring System for Macroinvertebrates ('Water Bugs') in Australian Rivers. Monitoring River Health Initiative Technical Report Number 31

Coysh, J., Nichols S., Simpson J., Norris R., Barmuta L., Chessman B. and Blackman P. 2000. AusRivAS National River Health Program Predictive Model Manual.

Department of Land and Water Conservation (DLWC) 1999. Water Reforms. Stressed Rivers Assessment Report and for the Hunter Catchment. DLWC, Sydney.

Department of Land and Water Conservation 1999. Water Reforms. Stressed Rivers Assessment Report and for the Manning and Karuah/Great Lakes Catchments. DLWC, Sydney.

Department of Land and Water Conservation 2000. Hunter, Karuah and Manning Catchments. State of the Rivers and Estuaries Report. NSW Government. ISBN 0 7347 5132X.

Geoimage & AUSLIG (1998a). Raster 100k/Mapzone 55. AUSLIG. Canberra.

Geoimage & AUSLIG (1998b). Raster 100k/Mapzone 56. AUSLIG. Canberra.

Gray B. 2004 Australian River Assessment System: National Guidelines for Mapping AusRivAS Aquatic Macroinvertebrate Scores

Hart B.T., Maher W. and Lawrence I. 1999. New generation guidelines for ecosystem protection. Freshwater Biology. 41:347-359.

Schofield N. and Davies P.E. 1996. Measuring the health of our rivers. Water. May/June. 39-43.

Turak E. and Waddell N. 2002a. New South Wales Australian River Assessment System (AusRivAS) Sampling and Processing Manual. NSW Environment Protection Authority. (http://ausrivas.canberra.edu.au/man/nsw).

Turak E. and Waddell N. 2002b. Development of AusRivAS models for New South Wales. NSW Environment Protection Authority..

Wright, J.F., Furse, M.T., Armitage, P.D., and Moss, D. (1993) New procedures for identifying running-water sites subject to environmental stress and for evaluating sites for conservation, based on the macroinvertebrate fauna. Arch. Hydrobiologia, 127 (3): 319-326.

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