2024
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GDE map exposes global dryland protection needs
Rohde MM, Albano CM, Huggins X, Klausmeyer KR, Morton C, Sharman A, Zaveri E, Saito L, Freed Z, Howard JK, Job N, Richter H, Toderich K, Rodella A-S, Gleeson T, Huntington J, Chandanpurkar HA, Purdy AJ, et al. 2024. Groundwater-dependent ecosystem map exposes global dryland protection needs. Nature.
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2023
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Groundwatersheds of the world's protected areas
Huggins X, Gleeson T, Serrano D, Zipper S, Florian J, Rohde MM, Abell R, Vigerstol K, Hartmann A. 2023. Overlooked risks and opportunities in groundwatersheds of the world's protected areas. Nature Sustainability 6:855-864.
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Outcomes from groundwater sustainability policy
Perrone D, Rohde MM, Wagner CH, Anderson R, Arthur S, Atume N, Brown M, Esaki-Kua L, Fernandez MG, Garvey KA, Heidel K, Jones WD, Asi SK, Munill C, Nelson R, Ortiz-Partida JP, Remson EJ. 2023. Stakeholder integration predicts better outcomes from groundwater sustainability. Nature Communic 14:3793.
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2022
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Springs & phreatophyte communities in OR & NV
Saito L, Freed Z, Byer S, Schindel M. 2022. The vulnerability of springs and phreatophyte communities to groundwater level declines in Oregon and Nevada, 2002-2021. Frontiers in Environmental Science 10:1007114
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2021
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Groundwater levels in California
Rohde MM, Biswas T, Housman IW, Campbell LS, Klausmeyer KR, Howard JK. 2021. A machine learning approach to predict groundwater levels in California reveals ecosystems at risk. Frontiers in Earth Science 9:784499.
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Managing groundwater to ensure ecosystem function
Saito L, Christian B, Diffley J, Richter H, Rohde MM, Morrison SA. 2021. Managing groundwater to ensure ecosystem function. Groundwater 59(3):322-333.
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2020
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Oases of the future? Springs as refugia
Cartwright JM, Dwire KA, Freed Z, Hammer SJ, McLaughlin B, Misztal LW, Schenk ER, Spence JR, Springer AE, Stevens LE. 2020. Oases of the future? Springs as potential hydrologic refugia in drying climates. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 18(5):245-253.
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Valuing undervalued ecosystems: Greasewood
Provencher L, Saito L, Badik K, Byer S. 2020. All systems are equal: In defense of undervalued ecosystems. Rangelands 42(5): 159-167.
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Mapping indicators of GDEs in Nevada
Saito L, Byer S, Badik K, McGwire K, Provencher L, Minor B. 2020. Mapping indicators of groundwater dependent ecosystems in Nevada: Important resources for a water-limited state. Journal of the Nevada Water Resources Association, Winter 2020. pp. 48-72.
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2019
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Landscape controls on central OR springs
Freed Z, Aldous A, Gannett MW. 2019. Landscape controls on the distribution and ecohydrology of central Oregon springs. Ecohydrology 12(2): e2065.
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General GDE
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Groundwater Thresholds for Ecosystems (2020)
This publication presents a practicable approach for quantifying groundwater conditions that are protective of GDEs. This document highlights five steps to quantify what groundwater levels are needed to avoid adverse impacts from groundwater use on GDEs..
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Analyzing GDEs
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Potential Biodiversity Impacts of Lithium (2024)
This report provides an analysis of potential impacts to biodiversity from proposed lithium extraction in Nevada and California.
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Oregon Atlas of GDEs (2022)
A TNC report that assesses multiple indicators of groundwater-dependence in five types of groundwater-dependent ecosystems across Oregon, as well as stressors and threats to those GDEs.
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High Andean Wetlands Executive Summary (2022)
Executive Summary of report about the importance of high Andean wetlands for nature and people: findings of a scientific study. Access the full report in Spanish here.
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Nevada GDE Stressor and Threat Report (2022)
This report describes the state-wide assessment of stressors and threats to Nevada groundwater dependent ecosystems. Download Fact Sheet here or find out more about this report here
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Nevada GDE Ecological Departure Report (2019)
This report presents the analysis of ecological departure of groundwater dependent ecosystems in over 1,600,000 hectares (4 million acres) that have been mapped by The Nature Conservancy in Nevada in the Sierra Nevada, Columbia Plateau, Great Basin and Mojave ecoregions.
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Mapping GDEs
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Mapping Indicators of GDEs in Nevada (2019)
This report describes the methods for assembling the Nevada Indicators of Groundwater Dependent Ecosystems Database and story map.
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Mapping iGDEs in California (2018)
This methods report is a guide on how to validate the groundwater dependency of “indicators of groundwater dependent ecosystems (iGDEs)” with local information in California.
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Strategies for GDEs
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Strategies for Managing and Sustaining GDEs in NV
This report presents 10 strategies for managing and sustaining GDEs in Nevada. Find out more about this report here
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Management
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Retiring Groundwater Rights & Agrivoltaics (2024)
This report provides results of a study of the feasibility of retiring groundwater rights and transitioning land to agrivoltaics in Diamond Valley, NV. Find out more here
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Potential Hydrologic Impacts of Lithium (2023)
This report includes a framework and checklist for evaluating availability of information about the risks of hydrologic impacts from lithium mining at a project level from development through post-closure. Questions in the framework can help to determine if additional studies/information are needed.
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Evaluation of Restoration Alternatives (2020)
This report describes a water budget tool developed by Freed et al. that was used to assess hydrologic outcomes of different management scenarios at Wapato Lake, Oregon.
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Groundwater markets
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SGMA's First Groundwater Market (2019)
Case study report of the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act's (SGMA) first groundwater market in Fox Canyon, California.
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