Evidence table of flow-biota studies for the wet-dry tropics of northern Australia

This dataset was compiled as part of the National Environmental Science Program (NESP) Project 2.1 led by Prof Michele Burford and Prof Ben Stewart-Koster Titled "Assessing risks to the environment from water-resource development in northern Australia using north Queensland as a case study"

Data search and compilation by Dr Leah Beesley, The University of Western Australia
Search completed by December 2022. Projects included span a 34 year period (1980-2022).

The aim of this component of the project was to synthesise existing information on freshwater and estuarine species and processes across northern Australia to identify risks, knowledge gaps and research needs.

Information was sourced from the published literature and grey literature (reports)
Published literature was searched using SCOPUS in early November 2022 using the following search terms
Scopus query string
(TITLE-ABS-KEY("fresh*" OR "aquatic" OR "river*" OR "floodplain" OR "wetland*" OR "stream*" OR "creek*" OR "estuar*" OR "lagoon" OR "billabong" OR "waterhole" OR "riparian") AND TITLE-ABS-KEY("flow*" OR "discharge" OR "water" OR "hydro*" OR "flood" OR "connect*" OR "fragment*" OR "refuge" OR "climate") AND TITLE-ABS-KEY("fish*" OR "*bird" OR "nutrient" OR "food web" OR "foodweb" OR "food-web" OR "energ*" or "macroinvert*" OR "*plankton" OR "prawn*" OR "crab" OR "crayfish" OR "crocodile" OR "turtle" OR "metabolism" OR "primary producti*")) AND TITLE-ABS-KEY("tropic*") AND NOT TITLE-ABS-KEY("subtrop*" OR sub-trop*) AND ( LIMIT-TO ( AFFILCOUNTRY,"Australia" ) ) AND ( LIMIT-TO ( SUBJAREA,"ENVI" ) OR LIMIT-TO ( SUBJAREA,"AGRI" ) OR LIMIT-TO ( SUBJAREA,"EART" ) ) AND ( LIMIT-TO ( LANGUAGE,"English" ) )
Grey literature was sourced where it was known.