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Enhancing Water Supply through Invasive Plant Removal: A Literature Review of Evapotranspiration Studies on Arundo Donax

The Nature Conservancy (TNC) | February 11th, 2019


Removal of the invasive, non-native plant Arundo donax (Arundo, giant reed) along riparian corridors is being considered by groundwater sustainability agencies as a potential water savings strategy that could provide co-benefits for groundwater sustainability as well as native ecosystem restoration. Arundo is a fast growing, densely vegetated reed that has purportedly high-water consumption (i.e., transpiration). This paper is intended to help agencies develop estimates of the water supply benefits that could be realized from Arundo removal.

Keywords

ecosystem management, Groundwater Exchange, Groundwater Sustainability Plan (GSP), invasive species