Rebecca Dobbs
Key Researcher
The University of Western Australia
The National Water Commission developed a national framework that formed the basis of comparable national river and wetland health assessments, and has the capacity to bring together results of existing broad-scale assessments conducted at state, territory and basin scales. The Framework for the Assessment of River and Wetland Health (FARWH) was trialled by TRaCK in order to evaluate the effectiveness of the framework in assessing river health in the wet/dry tropics, and contributing to north Australian river management.
This project produced Monitoring river health in the wet–dry tropics: strategic considerations, community participation and indicators.
Scientific Paper
July 2014
Customary and recreational fishing pressure: large-bodied fish assemblages in a tropical, intermittent Australian river (journal article)
Close, P., Dobbs, R., Tunbridge, D., Speldewinde, P., Warfe, D., Toussaint, S., & Davies, P. (2014). Customary and recreational fishing pressure: Large-bodied fish assemblages in a tropical, intermittent Australian river. Marine and Freshwater Research, 65(5), 466-474. doi: 10.1071/MF13042
Scientific Paper
April 2014
Prediction of potentially significant fish harvest using metrics of accessibility in northern Western Australia (scientific paper)
Close, P., Dobbs, R., Ryan, T., Ryan, K., Speldewinde, P., & Toussaint, S. (2014). Prediction of potentially significant fish harvest using metrics of accessibility in northern Western Australia. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia, 97(2), 355-361.
Report
December 2012
Monitoring river health in the wet-dry tropics: strategic considerations, community participation and indicators
Report
September 2011
Trial of the Framework for the Assessment of River and Wetland Health (FARWH) in the wet-dry tropics for the Daly and Fitzroy Rivers
Scientific Paper
July 2010
Differing effects of catchment land use on water chemistry explain contrasting behaviour of a diatom index in tropical northern and temperate southern Australia (journal article)
Chessman, & Townsend. (2010). Differing effects of catchment land use on water chemistry explain contrasting behaviour of a diatom index in tropical northern and temperate southern Australia. Ecological Indicators, 10(3), 620-626. doi: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2009.10.006
The project was led by Simon Townsend from Charles Darwin University.
Key Researcher
The University of Western Australia
