The Lagoons of the outer Darwin Area, NT

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The project presented in this Final Milestone Report is part of the National Wetland Indicators Project regional trials, trialing the National framework and indicators for wetland extent, distribution and condition on the lagoons in the Darwin region.
Indicator Themes 1-5 (catchment disturbance, physical disturbance, hydrological disturbance and the fringing zone) were reported on in detail in Milestone Report 2 for all of the lagoons in the study area.

This report contains the final data, guidelines and protocols for Theme 6 (Biota) for six selected lagoons in the Darwin Region as well as updated versions of the aggregation and integration of indices. It also contains an evaluation of the Australian Government Wetland Classification Scheme for the lagoons of the Darwin Region.

Five indicators were trialled for the biota theme: fish (taxon number), amphibians (taxon number), macrophytes (taxon number) and two sub-indices for weed species: the number of exotic species present and the number of declared weeds.