Groundwater-dependent ecosystems: the where, what and why of GDEs

Derek Eamus; Ray Froend

doi:10.1071/BT06029

RESEARCH ARTICLE

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Groundwater-dependent ecosystems: the where, what and why of GDEs

Derek Eamus ^A ^C and Ray Froend ^B

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^A Institute for Water and Environmental Resource Management, University of Technology, Sydney, PO Box 123, Broadway, NSW 2007, Australia.

^B School of Natural Sciences and Centre for Ecosystem Management, Edith Cowan University, Joondalup, WA 6027, Australia.

^C Corresponding author. Email: Derek.Eamus@uts.edu.au

Australian Journal of Botany 54(2) 91-96 https://doi.org/10.1071/BT06029
Published: 5 April 2006

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¹ It is worthy to note the term ‘EWR’, in essence, refers to the intrinsic water requirements of ecological attributes of water-dependent ecosystems. In the context of this report, however, ‘EWR’ refers to what may be more accurately described as ‘Regulatory EWRs’. The determination of regulatory EWRs is framed by socially constructed ecological values and ecological management objectives (differentiated from intrinsic EWRs, which exist irrespective of social values).