Government agencies and community groups have invested considerable resources in restoring riparian vegetation and in-stream habitats in Australia.
Despite this, there is limited information on the effectiveness of these restoration actions on the re-establishment of stream fauna.
This project aims to describe the potential for river fauna to re-colonise restored reaches of streams by comparing biota among pristine, degraded and restored stream reaches, and inferring the capacity of taxa to recolonise restored reaches by examining the genetic structure of populations.