Conservation of Freshwater Ecosystem Values (CFEV) Database - Metadata Contents Abstraction index ........................................................................................................ 1 Acid mine drainage .................................................................................................... 5 Area ........................................................................................................................... 7 Burrowing crayfish regions ......................................................................................... 8 Catchment disturbance .............................................................................................. 9 Conservation Management Priority – Immediate ...................................................... 14 Conservation Management Priority – Potential ......................................................... 17 Crayfish regions ....................................................................................................... 19 Digital elevation model ............................................................................................. 23 Elevation .................................................................................................................. 24 Estuaries .................................................................................................................. 25 Estuaries biophysical classification ........................................................................... 26 Estuaries naturalness ............................................................................................... 28 Exotic fish impact ..................................................................................................... 30 Flow change ............................................................................................................. 39 Flow variability index ................................................................................................ 40 Fluvial geomorphic mosaics ..................................................................................... 43 Fluvial geomorphic river types .................................................................................. 45 Frog assemblages .................................................................................................... 49 Geomorphic responsiveness .................................................................................... 50 Groundwater Dependent Ecosystems ...................................................................... 54 Hydrological regions ................................................................................................. 56 Impacts adjacent to saltmarshes .............................................................................. 61 Impacts within saltmarshes ...................................................................................... 63 i Important biophysical class ...................................................................................... 65 Integrated Conservation Value ................................................................................. 68 Karst ........................................................................................................................ 69 Karst catchment size ................................................................................................ 70 Karst hydrology ........................................................................................................ 71 Karst naturalness ..................................................................................................... 72 Karst physical classification ...................................................................................... 75 Karst physical sensitivity .......................................................................................... 82 Lake level manipulation ............................................................................................ 83 Land disturbance adjacent to saltmarshes ............................................................... 84 Land disturbance within saltmarshes ........................................................................ 86 Land Tenure Security ............................................................................................... 88 Land use (nutrients) ................................................................................................. 91 Lateral extent of backing vegetation ......................................................................... 97 Long axis orientation ................................................................................................ 98 Macroinvertebrate condition ..................................................................................... 99 Macroinvertebrate assemblages ............................................................................ 101 Macroinvertebrate O/E rank abundance ................................................................. 106 Macrophyte assemblages ...................................................................................... 110 Major drainage catchments .................................................................................... 113 Mean annual run-off ............................................................................................... 114 Mining sedimentation ............................................................................................. 119 Native fish assemblages ........................................................................................ 121 Native fish condition ............................................................................................... 131 Naturalness-Representativeness Class .................................................................. 134 Modified TASVEG .................................................................................................. 135 Platypus condition .................................................................................................. 136 Regulation index .................................................................................................... 140 ii Representative Conservation Value ....................................................................... 145 Riparian vegetation condition ................................................................................. 150 River biological condition ........................................................................................ 153 River clusters ......................................................................................................... 156 River geomorphic condition .................................................................................... 157 River length ............................................................................................................ 159 River naturalness ................................................................................................... 160 River Section Catchments ...................................................................................... 162 River sediment capture .......................................................................................... 165 River sediment input............................................................................................... 167 River slope ............................................................................................................. 168 Rivers (drainage network) ...................................................................................... 169 Saltmarsh adjacent vegetation ............................................................................... 172 Saltmarsh aerial photography condition assessment .............................................. 173 Saltmarsh backing vegetation ................................................................................ 175 Saltmarsh biophysical classification ....................................................................... 177 Saltmarsh location .................................................................................................. 179 Saltmarsh naturalness ............................................................................................ 180 Saltmarsh vegetation .............................................................................................. 182 Saltmarshes ........................................................................................................... 183 Shoreline complexity .............................................................................................. 183 Shoreline perimeter ................................................................................................ 185 Spartina anglica (rice grass) ................................................................................... 185 Special values ........................................................................................................ 186 Stream order (position in drainage) ........................................................................ 193 Sub-catchments ..................................................................................................... 194 Tidal/wave energy regime ...................................................................................... 195 Tree assemblages .................................................................................................. 197 iii ‘Tyler’ biogeochemical classification