Full Title
Macroinvertebrate Monitoring for the Lower Murray River
Contact Person
John Hawking
Project Team
Kathie Le Busque, James Wyatt, Lyn Smith
Funding Body
Goulburn-Murray Water
Duration
November 2005 to February 2008
Outcomes
The project will produce an annual report for the client with an assessment of stream conditions and trend analysis.
Summary
The Lower Murray River Monitoring project is a part of the long-term Biological Monitoring Program funded by the MDBC. MDFRC have been working on two Upper Murray sites since 1980 (see MDBC projects), so the addition of three Lower Murray sites sees an extension of MDFRC's involvement in the collection of this long-term data set.
The project will monitor the macroinvertebrate assemblages in the Lower Murray and Darling Rivers and assess any changes in community structure. Two sites on the Murray River at Euston and Lock 9 (Cullulleraine) and one site on the Darling River at Burtundy will be sampled in Summer and Winter using Artificial Substrate Samplers (rock baskets) and a sweep net followed by laboratory identification to species level, or lowest possible taxonomic resolution.
