and depth of at least 0.1 metres Four Annually and frequent ‘before’ ‘after’ in shallow, slow water and macroinvertebrate sampling if the effects of riffle/run habitats? sites in Reach 4. environmental water are to be No sites in Reach assessed in isolation. Do implemented environmental Permanent pool depth 5. flows maintain adequate volume and volume and depth in permanent pools? See also native Do implemented environmental Connectivity fish monitoring flows maintain connectivity? (below). Do implemented environmental Number of invertebrate flows maintain families index macroinvertebrate community AUSRIVAS score structure? SIGNAL biotic index EPT biotic index Presence/absence and number of taxa Do implemented environmental See conceptual model flows increase fish recruitment? for Fish Spawning & Do implemented environmental Recruitment flows maintain fish assemblages Fish species and/or population structure? composition Relative abundance of adult/sub-adult native and exotic fish species Population structure and size class distribution of native and exotic fish species. Winter/spring Two physical Annually As above Do implemented environmental Shallow and slow water baseflows flows increase in-channel areas habitat sites in each of Reach 4 VEFMAP sampling was not shallow and slow water areas? and Reach 5. designed to assess short-term Do implemented environmental Riffle and/or run area changes. Will require more flows increase area of riffle Four and and/or run habitat? frequent ‘before’ ‘after’ macroinvertebrate sampling if the effects of
and depth of at least 0.1 metres in shallow, slow water and riffle/run habitats? Do implemented environmental flows maintain adequate volume and depth in permanent pools? Do implemented environmental flows maintain connectivity? Do implemented environmental flows maintain macroinvertebrate community structure? Do implemented environmental flows increase fish recruitment? Do implemented environmental flows maintain fish assemblages and/or population structure? Permanent pool depth and volume Connectivity Number of invertebrate families index AUSRIVAS score SIGNAL biotic index EPT biotic index Presence/absence and number of taxa See conceptual model for Fish Spawning & Recruitment Fish species composition Relative abundance of adult/sub-adult native and exotic fish species Population structure and size class distribution of native and exotic fish species. Four macroinvertebrate sites in Reach 4. No sites in Reach 5. See also native fish monitoring (below). Annually frequent ‘before’ and ‘after’ sampling if the effects of environmental water are to be assessed in isolation. Winter/spring baseflows Do implemented environmental flows increase in-channel shallow and slow water areas? Do implemented environmental flows increase area of riffle and/or run habitat? Shallow and slow water areas Riffle and/or run area Two physical habitat sites in each of Reach 4 and Reach 5. Four macroinvertebrate Annually As above VEFMAP sampling was not designed to assess short-term changes. Will require more frequent ‘before’ and ‘after’ sampling if the effects of
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