Australian River Assessment System: AusRivAS Physical Assessment Protocol
Melissa Parsons, Martin Thoms and Richard Norris
Cooperative Research Centre for Freshwater Ecology
University of Canberra
Monitoring River Health Initiative Technical Report Number 22
Environment Australia, 2002
ISSN 1447-1280
ISBN 0 642 54888 9
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- Part 1 - AusRivAS Physical Assessment Protocol (PDF - 2879 KB)
- Part 2 - AusRivAS Physical Assessment Protocol (PDF - 3054 KB)
About the report
The physical assessment of stream condition lies within a broad framework of environmental restoration. Most river rehabilitation methods recommend the use of a pre and post-restoration assessment of condition. For example, the 12-Step rehabilitation process of Rutherfurd et al. (2000) includes description of present stream condition and evaluation of the success of the rehabilitation process. Similarly, Kondolf (1995) recommends the collection of baseline data that can be used to evaluate change caused by rehabilitation projects and Hobbs and Norton (1996) stress the importance of identifying the processes leading to degradation or decline, and of developing easily observable measures of the success of restoration interventions. The assessment protocol described in this document addresses these aspects of river rehabilitation by providing a quantitative approach to the physical assessment of river condition.
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