Aquatic Macroinvertebrates of NSW (1994 - ongoing)

Created 24/06/2025

Updated 24/06/2025

The dataset contains information on aquatic macroinvertebrates that has been collected under the Monitoring River Health Project (1994-2000), the Sustainable Rivers Audit (2002-2012) and the Monitoring Evaluating and Reporting (MER) program (2006 ongoing) across the whole of NSW. The data were collected using the AUSRIVAS protocols (available at http://ausrivas.canberra.edu.au/Bioassessment/Macroinvertebrates/) which includes in situ water quality measurements, site habitat assessment and macroinvertebrate data. The dataset has a latitude and longitude and site access information for every sample site.

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Field Value
Title Aquatic Macroinvertebrates of NSW (1994 - ongoing)
Language English
Licence Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/70e86211-9d6d-42bc-b9ab-d6ef534a93aa
Remote Last Updated 27/02/2024
Contact Point
Reference Period 01/01/1994 - 06/01/2010
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
{
  "coordinates": [
    [
      [
        153.9256,
        -37.5377
      ],
      [
        153.9256,
        -28.0721
      ],
      [
        140.4332,
        -28.0721
      ],
      [
        140.4332,
        -37.5377
      ],
      [
        153.9256,
        -37.5377
      ]
    ]
  ],
  "type": "Polygon"
}
Data Portal DataNSW

Data Source

This dataset was originally found on DataNSW "Aquatic Macroinvertebrates of NSW (1994 - ongoing)". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://data.nsw.gov.au/data/dataset/nsw-aquatic-macroinvertebrates-of-nsw-1994-ongoingc357e