With increasing groundwater development around the world, a method is required to identify and map groundwater dependent ecosystems (GDEs) across broad landscape scales. Identifying the location of GDEs, will ensure that the environmental impacts of increasing water development are understood and will lead to better management of water resources to protect GDEs.
TASK: Discuss how MAGNET, especially combined with its hierarchical modeling capabilities and the now widely available 1m lidar DEM data, can be used to identify or to guide field inventory of groundwater dependent ecosystems.
