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Methods for Assessing the Health of Lake Eyre Basin Rivers

This report provides the required background resource material to enable proceeding to the implementation stage of an assessment of the condition of river ecosystems and catchments in the Lake Eyre Basin.

Methods for Assessing the Health of Lake Eyre Basin Rivers

The purpose of the Lake Eyre Basin Rivers Assessment Methodology Development project was to develop a scientifically based methodology for assessing the condition of river ecosystems and catchments in the Lake Eyre Basin. Community and government have articulated the values of, and threats to, the Basin watercourses; these have been used as a guide for the scope of this assessment methodology.

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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…