Potential Groundwater Dependent Ecosystem (GDE) - Species Tolerance Grid

Potential Groundwater Dependent Ecosystems (GDE) are ecosystems identified within the landscape as likely to be at least partly dependent on groundwater.

In 2011-2012 a species tolerance model was developed by Arthur Rylah Institute, collaborating with DPI, to provide a relative measure of sensitivity of those ecosystems to changes in groundwater availability and quality. The output was a species tolerance grid for Victoria.

Each GDE map unit has been assigned a species tolerance value based on the median of it's contributing grid cells.

Refer to the Potential Terrestrial Groundwater Dependent Ecosystems metadata record for each CMA for a full acount of the data product.

Data and Resources

Additional Information

Field Value
Published (Metadata Record) 17/04/2026
Last updated 17/04/2026
Organisation Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action
Category
License Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
Full metadata URL https://metashare.maps.vic.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/api/records/cd77f65d-5199-5b6f-9141-fd189b48a778/formatters/cip-pdf?root=export&output=pdf
Update Frequency Irregular