Aquatic Ecosystems Task Group (2012) Aquatic Ecosystems Toolkit. Module 2. Interim Australian National Aquatic Ecosystem Classification Framework. Australian Government Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities, Canberra.
Arthington AH, Olden JD, Balcombe SR and Thoms MC (2010) Multi-scale environmental factors explain fish losses and refuge quality in drying waterholes of Cooper Creek, an Australian arid-zone river. Marine and Freshwater Research 61, 842–856.
Atlas of Living Australia (2014) Atlas of living Australia website. Viewed 20 February 2014, http://www.ala.org.au.
Balcombe SR and Arthington AH (2009) Temporal changes in fish abundance in response to hydrological variability in a dryland floodplain river. Marine and Freshwater Research 60, 146–159.
Balcombe SR, Arthington AH, Foster ND, Thoms MC, Wilson GG and Bunn SE (2006) Fish assemblages of an Australian dryland river: abundance, assemblage structure and recruitment patterns in the Warrego River, Murray–Darling Basin. Marine and Freshwater Research 57, 619–633.
Barrett DJ, Couch CA, Metcalfe DJ, Lytton L, Adhikary DP and Schmidt RK (2013) Methodology for bioregional assessments of the impacts of coal seam gas and coal mining development on water resources. A report prepared for the Independent Expert Scientific Committee on Coal Seam Gas and Large Coal Mining Development through the Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities, Canberra.
Bastin G, Denham R, Scarth P, Sparrow A and Chewings V (2014) Remotely sensed analysis of ground-cover change in Queensland’s rangelands, 1988–2005. The Rangeland Journal, in press.
Bunn SE, Davies PM and Winning M (2003) Sources of organic carbon supporting the food web of an arid zone floodplain river. Freshwater Biology 48, 619–635.
Burrows WH, Scanlan JC and Rutherford MT (eds) (1988) Native Pastures in Queensland: the Resources and Their Management. Queensland Department of Primary Industries, Brisbane.
Butcher R and Hale J (2011) Ecological character description for Coongie Lakes Ramsar site. Report to the Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities, Canberra.
Choy SC, Thomson CB and Marshall JC (2002) Ecological condition of central Australian arid-zone rivers. Water Science and Technology 45, 225–232.
Cockayne B, Schmarr D, Duguid A,and Mathwin R (2013) Lake Eyre Basin Rivers Assessment 2012 Monitoring Report. Report to the Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities, Canberra.
Costelloe JF, Reid JRW, Pritchard JC, Puckridge JT, Bailey VE and Hudson PJ (2010) Are alien fish disadvantaged by extremely variable flow regimes in arid-zone rivers? Marine and Freshwater Research 61, 857–863.
Department of Agriculture (2010) Australian Land Use and Management Classification Version 7 (May 2010). Department of Agriculture, Canberra. Viewed 19 January 2015, http://www.agriculture.gov.au/abares/aclump/land-use/alum-classification-version-7-may-2010.
Department of Agriculture (2015) Australian Collaborative Land Use and Management Program: Land Use Data Download. Department of Agriculture, Canberra. Viewed 19 January 2015, http://www.agriculture.gov.au/abares/aclump/land-use/data-download.
Department of the Environment (2012) CAPAD 2012 [Collaborative Australian Protected Area Database]. Department of the Environment, Canberra. Viewed 18 December 2013, http://www.environment.gov.au/node/34737.
Department of the Environment (2014a) Australia's bioregions (IBRA) website. Department of the Environment, Canberra. Viewed 20 February 2014, http://www.environment.gov.au/topics/land/national-reserve-system/science-maps-and-data/australias-bioregions-ibra.
Department of the Environment (2014b) National Vegetation Information System (NVIS) website. Department of the Environment, Canberra. Viewed 20 February 2014, http://www.environment.gov.au/topics/science-and-research/databases-and-maps/national-vegetation-information-system.
Department of the Environment (2014c) A directory of important wetlands in Australia. Department of the Environment, Canberra. Viewed 20 February 2014, http://www.environment.gov.au/topics/water/water-our-environment/wetlands/australian-wetlands-database/directory-important.
Department of the Environment (2014d) Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999: Listed threatened species and ecological communities. Department of the Environment, Canberra. Viewed 19 January 2015, http://www.environment.gov.au/epbc/what-is-protected/threatened-species-ecological-communities.
Department of the Environment (2014e) Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999: Species Profile and Threats Database. Department of the Environment, Canberra. Viewed 19 January 2015, http://www.environment.gov.au/cgi-bin/sprat/public/sprat.pl.
Department of the Environment (2015) Wetlands of international importance (Ramsar wetlands). Department of the Environment, Canberra. Viewed 6 March 2015, http://www.environment.gov.au/epbc/what-is-protected/wetlands.
Davis J, Pavlova A, Thompson R and Sunnucks P (2013) Evolutionary refugia and ecological refuges: key concepts for conserving Australian arid zone freshwater biodiversity under climate change. Global Change Biology 19, 1970-1984.
Eamus D, Froend R, Loomes R, Hose G and Murray B (2006) A functional methodology for determining the groundwater regime needed to maintain the health of groundwater-dependent vegetation. Australian Journal of Botany 54, 97–114.
Environment Australia (2001) A directory of important wetlands in Australia, Third Edition. Environment Australia, Canberra.
Environmental Protection Agency (2005) Wetland Mapping and Classification Methodology – Overall Framework – A Method to Provide Baseline Mapping and Classification for Wetlands in Queensland, Version 1.2. Queensland Government, Brisbane.
Fellows CS, Wos ML, Pollard PC and Bunn SE (2007) Ecosystem metabolism in a dryland river waterhole. Marine and Freshwater Research 58, 250–262.
Fensham RJ and Fairfax RJ (2003) Spring wetlands of the Great Artesian Basin, Queensland, Australia. Wetlands Ecology and Management 11, 343–362.
Fensham RJ, McCosker JC and Cox MJ (1998) Estimating clearance of Acacia-dominated ecosystems in central Queensland using land-system mapping data. Australian Journal of Botany 46, 305–319.
Fensham RJ, Ponder WF and Fairfax RJ (2010) Recovery plan for the community of native species dependent on natural discharge of groundwater from the Great Artesian Basin. A report to Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts, Canberra. Queensland Department of Environment and Resource Management, Brisbane. Viewed 20 December 2013, http://www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity/threatened/publications/recovery/great-artesian-basin-ec.html.
Fensham RJ and Price RJ (2004) Ranking spring wetlands in the Great Artesian Basin of Australia using endemicity and isolation of plant species. Biological Conservation 119, 41–50.
Fensham RJ, Silcock JL, Kerezsy A and Ponder W (2011) Four desert waters: setting arid zone wetland conservation priorities through understanding patterns of endemism. Biological Conservation 144, 2459–2467.
Geoscience Australia (2006) GEODATA TOPO 250K Series 3. Geoscience Australia, Canberra. Viewed 19 January 2015, http://www.ga.gov.au/metadata-gateway/metadata/record/gcat_63999.
Gillam S and Urban R (2013) Regional Species Conservation Assessment Project, Phase 1 Report: Regional Species Status Assessments, Outback Region. South Australian Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources, Adelaide.
Gotch T (ed.) (2013) Allocating Water and Maintaining Springs in the Great Artesian Basin, Volume V: Groundwater-dependent Ecosystems of the Western Great Artesian Basin. National Water Commission, Canberra.
Greenslade J, Joseph L and Reeves A (eds) (1985) South Australia's mound springs. Nature Conservation Society of South Australia Inc., Adelaide.
Harris CR (1992) Mound springs: South Australian conservation initiatives. The Rangeland Journal 14, 157–173.
Humphreys WF (2006) Aquifers: the ultimate groundwater-dependent ecosystems. Australian Journal of Botany 54, 115–132.
Jaensch R (1999) The status and importance of Queensland's south-western wetlands. Report by Wetlands International - Oceania to the Environmental Protection Agency, Brisbane.
Kennard MJ, Pusey BJ, Olden JD, Mackay SJ, Stein JL and Marsh N (2010) Classification of natural flow regimes in Australia to support environmental flow management. Freshwater Biology 55, 171–193.
Kerezsy, A (2010) The distribution, recruitment and movement of fish in far western Queensland. PhD thesis, Griffith University, Nathan.
Kerezsy A, Balcombe SR, Tischler M and Arthington AH (2013) Fish movement strategies in an ephemeral river in the Simpson Desert, Australia. Austral Ecology 38, 798–808.
Kerezsy A, Balcombe SR, Arthington AH and Bunn SE (2011) Continuous recruitment underpins fish persistence in the arid rivers of far-western Queensland, Australia. Marine and Freshwater Research 62, 1178-1190.
Kerezsy A and Fensham R (2013) Conservation of the endangered red-finned blue-eye, Scaturiginichthys vermeilipinnis, and control of alien eastern gambusia, Gambusia holbrooki, in a spring wetland complex. Marine and Freshwater Research 64, 1–13.
Kingsford RT, Roshier DA and Porter JL (2010) Australian waterbirds – time and space travellers in dynamic desert landscapes. Marine and Freshwater Research 61, 875–884.
Leigh C, Burford MA, Sheldon F and Bunn SE (2010a) Dynamic stability in dry season food webs within tropical floodplain rivers. Marine and Freshwater Research 61, 357–368.
Leigh C and Sheldon F (2009) Hydrological connectivity drives patterns of macroinvertebrate biodiversity in floodplain rivers of the Australian wet dry tropics. Freshwater Biology 54, 549–571.
Leigh C, Sheldon F, Kingsford RT and Arthington AH (2010b) Sequential floods drive 'booms' and wetland persistence in dryland rivers: a synthesis. Marine and Freshwater Research 61, 896–908.
Lewis MM, White D and Gotch T (eds) (2013) Allocating Water and Maintaining Springs in the Great Artesian Basin, Volume IV: Spatial Survey and Remote Sensing of Artesian Springs of the Western Great Artesian Basin. National Water Commission, Canberra.
Mackay S, Marsh N, Sheldon F and Kennard M (2012) Low-flow hydrological classification of Australia. National Water Commission, Canberra.
Marshall JC, Sheldon F, Thoms M and Choy S (2006) The macroinvertebrate fauna of an Australian dryland river: spatial and temporal patterns and environmental relationships. Marine and Freshwater Research 57, 61–74.
NSW Government (2012) Digital Cadastral Database (DCDB). Land and Property Information, Sydney. Viewed 19 January 2015, http://www.lpi.nsw.gov.au/mapping_and_imagery/cadastral_data.
NSW Government (2014) Saving NSW threatened species: search for threatened species, search by region. Viewed 23 December 2014, http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/threatenedspeciesapp/AreaHabitatSearch.aspx.
Orr DM and Holmes WE (1984) Mitchell grasslands. In: Harrington GN, Wilson AD and Young MD (eds) Management of Australia’s Rangelands. Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Melbourne, 241–254.
Puckridge JT, Costelloe JF and Walker KF (1999) DRY/WET: effects of changed water regime on the fauna of arid zone wetlands (CD-ROM model and documentation). National Wetlands Research and Development Program, Environment Australia and Land and Water Resources Research and Development Corporation, Canberra.
Puckridge JT, Walker KF and Costelloe JF (2000) Hydrological persistence and the ecology of dryland rivers. Regulated Rivers: Research and Management 16, 385–402.
Puckridge JT, Costelloe JF and Reid JRW (2010) Ecological responses to variable water regimes in arid-zone wetlands: Coongie Lakes, Australia. Marine and Freshwater Research 61, 832–841.
Queensland Environmental Protection Agency (2005) Wetland management profile: Great Artesian Basin spring wetlands. Ecosystem Conservation Branch, Environmental Protection Agency, Brisbane.
Queensland Government (2013a) Digital Cadastral Database (DCDB). Department of Natural Resources and Mines, Brisbane. Viewed 19 January 2015, https://www.dnrm.qld.gov.au/mapping-data/data/digital-cadastral.
Queensland Government (2013b) Wildlife Online: species list. Department of Environment and Heritage Protection. Viewed 21 March 2014, http://www.qld.gov.au/environment/plants-animals/species-list/.
Reid JR and Gillen J (eds) (1988) The Coongie Lakes study. Department of Environment and Planning, Adelaide.
Shiel RJ, Costelloe JF, Reid JRW, Hudson P and Powling J (2006) Zooplankton diversity and assemblages in arid zone rivers of the Lake Eyre Basin, Australia. Marine and Freshwater Research 57, 49–60.
Sheldon F, Boulton AJ and Puckridge JT (2002). Conservation value of variable connectivity: aquatic invertebrate assemblages of channel and floodplain habitats of a central Australian arid-zone river, Cooper Creek. Biological Conservation 103, 13–31.
Sheldon F, Bunn SE, Hughes JM, Arthington AH, Balcombe SR and Fellows CS (2010) Ecological roles and threats to aquatic refuges in arid landscapes: dryland river waterholes. Marine and Freshwater Research 61, 885–895.
Sheldon F and Fellows CS (2010) Water quality in two Australian dryland rivers: spatial and temporal variability and the role of flow. Marine and Freshwater Research 61, 864–874.
Sheldon F and Puckridge JT (1998) Macroinvertebrate assemblages of Goyder Lagoon, Diamantina River, South Australia. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 122, 17–31.
Silcock J (2009) Identification of permanent refuge waterbodies in the Cooper Creek & Georgina-Diamantina River catchments for Queensland and South Australia. Final report to South Australian Arid Lands Natural Resource Management Board, Port Augusta.
SA Government (2014) Spatial data downloads. Department of Planning, Transport and Infrastructure, Adelaide. Viewed 19 January 2015, http://www.sa.gov.au/topics/housing-property-and-land/building-and-development/land-supply-and-planning-system/planning-data-for-research-and-mapping/spatial-data-downloads.
Stafford Smith DM and Morton SR (1990) A framework for the ecology of arid Australia. Journal of Arid Environments 18, 255–278.
Sternberg D, Cockayne B, Schmarr D, Duguid A, Mathwin R and McNeil D (2014) Lake Eyre Basin Rivers Assessment (LEBRA) 2012/13 Monitoring Report. Report to the Department of the Environment, Canberra.
Thackway R and Lesslie R (2005) Vegetation Assets, States, and Transitions (VAST): Accounting for vegetation condition in the Australian landscape. Technical report, Bureau of Rural Sciences, Canberra.
Tomlinson M and Boulton AJ (2010) Ecology and management of subsurface groundwater dependent ecosystems in Australia – a review. Marine and Freshwater Research 61, 936–949.
Tyler MJ, Twidale CR, Davies M and Wells CB (eds) (1990) Natural History of the North East Deserts. Royal Society of South Australia, Adelaide.
Wilson BA (1995) Artesian Springs of the Great Artesian Basin in Queensland. An unpublished report to the Queensland Department of Environment and Heritage and Australian Nature Conservation Agency. States Cooperative Assistance Program project SCAP S012, Department of Environment and Heritage, Toowoomba.
Zeidler W and Ponder WF (eds) (1989) Natural History of Dalhousie Springs. South Australian Museum, Adelaide.