HEVAE Vegetation Groundwater Dependent Ecosystems Value - Northern Rivers

NSW DoI Water has adopted the Guidelines for Identifying High Ecological Value Aquatic Ecosystems (HEVAE) framework developed by the Australian Commonwealth Government. In the current assessment for NSW, the HEVAE consists of four key criteria which include diversity, distinctiveness, naturalness and vital habitat. Therefore, the HEVAE vegetation GDE value layer is a combination of four individual criterion layers. The final or overall HEVAE score was determined for vegetation PCT polygons which has a high probability of being groundwater dependent. This was calculated by adding together the final scores for each criterion (Naturalness, Diversity, Distinctiveness and Vital Habitat). This score was then standardised by dividing by the maximum combined HEVAE score for a whole catchment’s vegetation GDE polygons to provide an even spread of score outcomes between 0 (lowest) and 1 (highest). For ease of data modelling and management, the dataset was divided into the following catchment management areas; Border Rivers-Gwydir, Central Tablelands, Central West, Hawkesbury-Nepean, Hunter-Central Rivers, Lachlan, Lower Murray Darling, Murray, Murrumbidgee, Namoi, Northern Rivers, Southern Rivers, Southern Tablelands, Sydney Metro and Western Division (subdivided further into the IBRA Sub regions).

新南威尔士州水务部（NSW DoI Water）采用了澳大利亚联邦政府制定的《高生态价值水生生态系统识别指南》（High Ecological Value Aquatic Ecosystems, HEVAE）框架。在针对新南威尔士州的当前评估中，HEVAE包含四项核心判定标准，即多样性、独特性、自然性与关键生境。因此，HEVAE植被GDE价值图层由四项独立的标准图层组合而成，其中GDE为地下水依赖生态系统（Groundwater Dependent Ecosystem, GDE）。针对极大概率依赖地下水的植被PCT多边形，确定了HEVAE最终综合得分：该得分通过将四项标准（自然性、多样性、独特性与关键生境）的最终得分相加计算得到。随后，通过将该得分除以单个集水区内所有植被GDE多边形的HEVAE最高组合得分，完成标准化处理，使得分结果均匀分布在0（最低分）至1（最高分）区间内。为便于数据建模与管理，本数据集被划分为以下集水区管理分区：Border Rivers-Gwydir、Central Tablelands、Central West、Hawkesbury-Nepean、Hunter-Central Rivers、Lachlan、Lower Murray Darling、Murray、Murrumbidgee、Namoi、Northern Rivers、Southern Rivers、Southern Tablelands、Sydney Metro及Western Division（后者进一步细分为澳大利亚临时生物地理分区(Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia, IBRA)亚区）。