Was Commonwealth environmental water delivered to a representative suite of Ecosystem types? Vegetation diversity What did CEW contribute to: No watering of the western floodplain, so not able to attribute vegetation response to ewater. Heavy vegetation species rainfall prior to sampling had an effect on results. No diversity? discussion of constraints but if CEW make it vegetation community doesn’t onto the floodplain then this indicator is not going to diversity? be achieved. Fish (river) What did CEW contribute to: Provides baseline data on fish in the Warrego. No planned CEW, only a small amount derived from an native fish community upstream contribution made its way to the SA 4% resilience? – contribution. This likely contributed to increased native fish survival? recruitment and abundance in fish post the native fish populations? connecting flow. native fish diversity? Frogs What did CEW contribute to: Diversity and abundance post rainfall on floodplain highest. Too early to address KEQ. frog populations? frog species diversity? frog survival? Waterbird diversity What did CEW contribute to: Abundance and species richness corresponded to habitat and resource availability. No difference waterbird populations? between year 1 and 2, and no difference between waterbird species diversity? channel and floodplain sites except in March 2015. waterbird survival? Good floodplain results in year 1 attributable to CEW.
Was Commonwealth environmental water delivered to a representative suite of Ecosystem types? Vegetation diversity What did CEW contribute to: vegetation species diversity? vegetation community diversity? No watering of the western floodplain, so not able to attribute vegetation response to ewater. Heavy rainfall prior to sampling had an effect on results. No discussion of constraints but if CEW doesn’t make it onto the floodplain then this indicator is not going to be achieved. Fish (river) What did CEW contribute to: native fish community resilience? native fish survival? native fish populations? native fish diversity? Provides baseline data on fish in the Warrego. No planned CEW, only a small amount derived from an upstream contribution made its way to the SA – 4% contribution. This likely contributed to increased recruitment and abundance in fish post the connecting flow. Frogs What did CEW contribute to: frog populations? frog species diversity? frog survival? Diversity and abundance post rainfall on floodplain highest. Too early to address KEQ. Waterbird diversity What did CEW contribute to: waterbird populations? waterbird species diversity? waterbird survival? Abundance and species richness corresponded to habitat and resource availability. No difference between year 1 and 2, and no difference between channel and floodplain sites except in March 2015. Good floodplain results in year 1 attributable to CEW.