Australian Estuaries Database - CAMRIS

CAMRIS incorporates the Australian estuarine database, which includes the National Estuaries Study (Bucher and Saenger 1989). Attributes include location, name, climatic variables, run-off coefficients, land use, flood frequency, water quality, habitat types including seagrass/mangrove/saltmarsh, fisheries/conservation/amenity values, administration, literature and threats.\r\nCAMRIS, standing for the Coastal and Marine Resources Information System, is a small-scale spatial analysis system developed in collaboration by several divisions of Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), as part of the CSIRO Coastal Zone Program. CSIRO Division of Wildlife and Ecology is the custodian of the 'coastal' subset of the Australian Resources Information System (ARIS). Coastal ARIS became the core dataset of the CAMRIS project. The Coastal ARIS database was developed from a coastal inventory developed by Galloway et al. This inventory contained relatively large scale data including landform, geology, vegetation, soil, land use, climate and population information for each of 3027 3x10km sections around the coastline of mainland Australia and Tasmania, but excluding offshore islands.\r\nNOTE for Shapefile version:\r\nItem names in the ArcView Shapefile for download have been altered due to a 10 character fieldname limitation in the DBF file.\r\nEstuary.shp\r\nRUNOFF_COEF becomes R_off_coef\r\nMAX_TIDAL_RANGE becomes Mx_tid_rng\r\nSAND-MUD_AREA becomes Sdmud_area\r\nMANGROVE_AREA becomes Mgrve_area\r\nSEAGRASS_AREA becomes Sgras_area\r\nSALTMARSH_AREA becomes Smrsh_area\r\nESTUARINE_AREA becomes Estua_area\r\nGALLOWAY_SECTION becomes Gallwy_sct\r\nLANDUSE_CODE becomes Lnduse_cde\r\nFLOOD_REGIME becomes Flood_rgme\r\nMANGROVE_COVER becomes Mgrove_cvr\r\nSEAGRASS_COVER becomes Sgrass_cvr\r\nSALTMARSH_COVER becomes Smarsh_cvr\r\nFISH_THREAT becomes Fsh_threat\r\nCONS_THREAT becomes Con_threat\r\nAMENITY_VALUE becomes Amenity_vl