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Defining thresholds to protect groundwater-dependent vegetation

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The use of widely available groundwater and remote sensing data allows the identification of depth to groundwater thresholds to maintain water-dependent vegetation health.

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Fig. 1: Overview of the use of normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) and depth to groundwater (DTG) to define DTG thresholds to limit impacts to groundwater-dependent vegetation following Rohde and colleagues11.

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  1. Research Institute for the Environment and Livelihoods and Faculty of Science and Engineering, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia

    Dylan J. Irvine & Richard A. Crabbe

  2. National Centre for Groundwater Research and Training, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

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