Characterisation of stygofauna and microbial assemblages in the NT
This project delivered new information about the distribution and abundance of stygofauna, and characterised subterranean groundwater-dependent ecosystems, through a broad spatial pilot-scale survey of water bores in the Beetaloo Sub-Basin, using direct sampling and DNA-based approaches.
This project improved knowledge of stygofauna and subterranean groundwater dependent ecosystems in the Beetaloo Sub-basin and Roper River system, in line with the Final Report of the Scientific Inquiry into Hydraulic Fracturing in the Northern Territory (2018).
Stygofauna survey Beetaloo NT
Stygofauna survey Beetaloo NT – CSIRO’s Dr Daryl Nielsen and Charles Darwin University’s Dr Stefanie Oberprieler sample groundwater
Reports and journals
Characterisation of the stygofauna and microbial assemblages of the Beetaloo Sub-Basin, NT
This final report details research results providing the first description of stygofauna in the Beetaloo Sub-basin in Northern Territory – an otherwise little-studied region of Australia – and likely includes discovery of new genera and species of crustaceans (amphipods and ostracods).
Connectivity, not short-range endemism, characterises the groundwater biota of a northern Australian karst system
This paper was published in the scientific journal Science of the Total Environment, Volume 796, 20 November 2021.
Beetaloo Sub-basin's digital twin and stygofauna
Paper published in Oil and Gas Australia-Asia Bimonthly, July/August 2021, pages 14-15
Resources and articles
Characterising stygofauna and microbial assemblages in the Beetaloo Sub-basin, NT
This factsheet provides an overview of the project, and final results
Characterising stygofauna and microbial assemblages in the Beetaloo Sub-basin, NT
A presentation to the CSIRO GISERA Knowledge Transfer Session in held via webex in February 2021
Characterising stygofauna and microbial assemblages in the Beetaloo Sub-basin, NT
This factsheet provides an overview of the project, its aims and what it will involve.
Blind shrimps, translucent snails: the 11 mysterious new species we found in potential fracking sites
Published article in The Conversation about the discovery of new stygofauna species.
Project Progress
This project is complete.
Project Proposal
A detailed description of the project, budget and research milestones.
Project progress
The project outline, any variations and research progress.
GISERA-related research
Examination of stygofauna ecosystems of the Beetaloo Sub-basin
An in-depth examination of stygofauna ecosystems of the Beetaloo Sub-basin in the Northern Territory