Water’s Edge Consulting has considerable and diverse expertise, across all areas of ecological management and assessment in aquatic ecosystems.
WEC has experience in fresh, saline, and estuarine ecosystems; depressional inland wetlands; rivers and streams, and floodplain systems. WEC has expericne in most Australian states, having undertaking projects at the local, regional, catchment and national scale.
WEC can provide the following services:
Prioritisation plans for natural resource management.
Environmental flow requirements of floodplain biota.
Development of regional strategies for aquatic ecosystem resource managment.
Broad ecological skills: macro invertebrate ecology and taxonomy, plant and water bird ecology, water quality measurement.
Design, critical review and implementation of monitoring programs for assessing aquatic ecosystem condition.
Describing ecological character at Ramsar sites and High Conservation Value Aquatic Ecosystems.
Selection and use of surrogates and indicators of biodiversity.
Providing purpose-built training courses and seminars.
Prioritisation plans for natural resource management.