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New South Wales

The following spatial data and reports have been identified. Note: work in progress

Riverine, Lacustrine and Palustrine

• NSW Wetland Inventory https://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/topics/water/wetlands/nsw-wetland-inventory
• NSW Wetlands DPIE https://researchdata.edu.au/nsw-wetlands/1343045
• NSW Wetlands map viewer https://geo.seed.nsw.gov.au/Public_Viewer/index.html?viewer=Public_Viewer&locale=en-AU&runWorkflow=AppendLayerCatalog&CatalogLayer=SEED_Catalog.110
• NSW Department of Environment, Climate Change and Water" (2010) NSW Wetlands. Bioregional Assessment Source Data base https://datagovau.s3.amazonaws.com/bioregionalassessments/BA_ALL/ALL/DATA/Ecology/WetlandsNSW_WetlandsMapping_2006/90476e12-77a2-4970-a0be-942eeb84e95e.zip and https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/90476e12-77a2-4970-a0be-942eeb84e95e
• Wetlands of the Lachlan River Catchments V1.0
• Gwyder valley floodplain (see ecological assets map)
• Gwyder Wetlands recovery project
• Conservation Assessment of Wetlands in the Clarence Lowlands IBRA Subregion
• Wetlands Central West region - included some site mapping
• NSW floodplain vegetation mapping
  • Murray-Darling Basin floodplain vegetation mapping, Condamine-Balonne (2016)
  • Murray-Darling Basin floodplain vegetation mapping, Darling (2016)
  • Vegetation of the Barwon–Darling and Condamine–Balonne floodplain systems of New South Wales (2016)
• NSW High Ecological Values Waterway Mapping at LGA level
  • Data.gov.au search Maps of high ecological value waterways and water dependent ecosystems (34 records)
• Waterhole refuge mapping and persistence analysis in the Lower Balonne and Barwon–Darling rivers (2015)
• Murray Riparian Vegetation Mapping based on mixed floristic/structural classification, MDBC (1990) (113 MBytes)

Estuarine and Marine

• NSW Estuarine Inventory https://metadata.imas.utas.edu.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/021f65eb-38c6-4db2-9dbe-821b6b427780
• NSW Estuaries
  • Estuaries in NSW
  • Mapping estuarine habitats (including seagrass, saltmarsh and mangroves 154 estuaries)
  • Habitat mapping dataset (2008-10, including seagrass, saltmarsh and mangroves)
• Latest NSW estuary macrophyte mapping https://webmap.industry.nsw.gov.au/Html5Viewer/index.html?viewer=Fisheries_Data_Portal  
• Mangrove and Saltmarsh Disribution Mapping and Land Cover Change Assessment for South-Eastern Australia from 1991 to 2015 (Navarro et al 2021)

Subterranean

• NSW Karst areas listed in CAPAD 2020 - Terrestrial layer

Peat Swamps and Alpine Bogs

• Peat-forming bogs and fens of the Snowy Mountains
• Assessment of Montane Peatlands and Swamps EEC on NSW Crown Forest Estate
• Alpine Sphagnum Bogs and Associated Fens Endangered Ecological Community, Kosciusko Resorts VIS_ID 4836 and dataset
• Temperate Highland Peat Swamps
• Alpine Bogs: Locating communities most at risk - involves ACT, NSW and Vic
• Data.NSW https://data.nsw.gov.au/search/search?q=peat (24 records)

Classification, Monitoring and Condition

• Assessing the extent and condition of wetlands in NSW
• See also NSW in Assessment and Monitoring

Data search engines

• NSW Aquatic Ecosystem datasets in SEED https://www.seed.nsw.gov.au/ (8 Aug 2021)
  • NSW SEED Wetland (221 records)
  • NSW SEED River (1,138 records)
  • NSW SEED Estuaries (138 records)
  • NSW SEED Mangrove (72 records)
  • NSW SEED Seagrass (53 records)
  • NSW SEED Marine Habitat (127 records)
  • NSW SEED Subterranean (3 records)
  • NSW SEED Cave (1,245 records)
  • NSW SEED Karst (916 records)
  • NSW SEED Peat (844 records)
  • NSW SEED Stygofauna (0 records)