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Healthy ecosystems

You can use this power point presentation to reflect local riparian characteristics, by inserting photos and examples from your region.

The powerpoint presentation has notes to accompany each slide, explaining the key point being made and how you might explain it to others.

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Do natural ecosystems benefit from the management of Weeds of National Significance?

Weeds pose a significant threat to natural ecosystems in Australia and consequently large quantities of resources are spent each year to manage them. Amongst these, species identified as Weeds of National Significance (WoNS) are particularly important. The capacity of weed management programs to contribute to biodiversity conservation in Australia has not been comprehensively assessed. This publication is one of a suite of 13 produced as part of a folder showcasing (more)...

Identifying Groundwater Dependent Ecosystems

Groundwater dependent ecosystems (GDEs) are important elements in the landscape that require access to groundwater to maintain their health and vigour. They are important because of their conservation, biodiversity, ecological, social and economic value.

There are two threats to GDEs — outright loss of habitat and outright loss of groundwater resources.

Understanding risks and threatening processes

Understanding risks and threatening processes in order to develop effective responses:

Understanding and valuing landscape processes

Understanding and valuing landscape processes, including the role and function of biodiversity in the delivery of ecosystem services:

  •   How do landscapes work and how do they generate value?
  •   How can we manage landscapes to maintain and/or improve their capacity to deliver ecosystem services?
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Implementation

A Framework for Assessing Environmental Water Requirements for Groundwater Dependent Ecosystems

This report presents the National Framework for the assessment of EWRs of GDEs. It has been designed to assist water resource, catchment and ecosystem managers, or their advisors, in considering the needs of GDEs in water allocation planning policy.

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Field Studies

A Framework for Assessing Environmental Water Requirements for Groundwater Dependent Ecosystems

There are presently a limited number of tools available for quantifying the level of groundwater dependence within ecosystems or identifying EWRs (see Report 1). With particular regards to defining ERFs (that describe the relationship between ecophysiology…

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Assessment Toolbox

A Framework for assessing the Environmental Water Requirements of Groundwater Dependent Ecosystems

The primary purpose of water allocation planning in Australia is to achieve an equitable way in which to allocate and manage a region’s water resources that is consistent with the Council of Australian Government’s (COAG) Water reform…

A framework to provide for the assessment of environmental water requirements of groundwater dependent ecosystems

This project carried over from the National Rivers Consortium Program and developed management tools to help incorporate groundwater dependant ecosystem (GDE) water requirements into water allocation planning by establishing a uniform and consistent approach to the assessment of environmental water requirements.

Improving Management of Salvinia in Temperate Aquatic Ecosystems

Freshwater ecosystems in temperate regions in Australia remain under continued invasion by the prolific aquatic fern, Salvinia molesta because control methods have been inconsistent and ineffective. In a case study system, the Hawkesbury-Nepean River, we