Recently a pilot project tested the capacity of agencies to report nationally on rangeland change through the Australian Collaborative Rangeland Information System (ACRIS). The NSW component of the pilot focused on change in the rangeland portion of the Darling Riverine Plains bioregion for the period 1992 -2002. Key trends affecting parts of the bioregion are the decline of the wool industry, a shift to cereal cropping and a decline in floodplain function. Regional scale natural resource monitoring datasets show that pastoral productivity, plant biodiversity, landscape function and groundcover are quite responsive to seasonal conditions, but longer-term trends appear stable.
Renmark, South Australia
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Full-text publications from the Australian Rangelands Society (ARS) Biennial Conference Proceedings (1997-), Rangeland Journal (ARS/CSIRO; 1976-), plus videos and other resources about the rangelands of Australia.