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- Library Collection RecordDan Robinett discusses the various kinds of vegetation that thrive in Southeastern Arizona. Dan also talks about the effects of mesquite encroachment within the region that alter vegetation cover.…Publication Date 2018
- brush control
- management
- vegetation
- mesquite
- Santa Rita Experimental Range
- WSARE Brush Management Workshop 1
- January 22
- 2018
- Altar Valley
- Library Collection RecordAmy Ganguli details the changing nature of grassland vegetation within New Mexico and the Mexican state of Chihuahua. She provides information on how grasslands can be restored and other treatment…Publication Date 2018
- brush control
- management
- vegetation
- grassland management
- grasslands
- New Mexico
- Chihuahua
- Santa Rita Experimental Range
- WSARE Brush Management Workshop 1
- Library Collection RecordThe natural Andean vegetation environment is the most important resource available to local pastoralist economies. Knowledge of its attributes is vital in assessing ecosystem properties and improves…Publication Date 2017
- biomass
- puna
- shrubs
- tussocks
- vegetation
- Library Collection RecordFire used to be as natural on the landscape as rain. After years of fire suppression, the vegetation on the landscape has shifted. In Arizona, places like Altar Valley have found that a unique group…Publication Date 2017
- brush control
- management
- vegetation
- fire suppression
- Library Collection RecordOn the Ground • The profession of rangeland ecology and management has been built, to a large extent, on vegetation ecology. • Community ecology has been the source of advances in scientific…Publication Date 2016-12-01
- usable science
- vegetation
- research priorities
- Library Collection RecordIn Arizona, invasive and noxious plants have a significant impact on native vegetation and ecosystem health. Because invasive plants are competitive against native plants, once invasive plants…Publication Date 2016
- invasive species
- invasives
- acreage
- Arizona
- vegetation
- Small Landowners
- Library Collection RecordGovernance plays a key role in rangeland management. In China, all rangeland, including pastoral land and agro-pastoral land, is owned by the State. Since 1980, use rights have been granted to…Publication Date 2015-03
- agro-pastoral region
- Community participation
- family income
- livestock
- rangeland governance
- vegetation
- Library Collection RecordGovernance plays a key role in rangeland management. In China, all rangeland, including pastoral land and agro-pastoral land, is owned by the State. Since 1980, use rights have been granted to…Publication Date 2015-03
- agro-pastoral region
- Community participation
- family income
- livestock
- rangeland governance
- vegetation
- Library Collection RecordWater is of paramount importance to all people that live in regions such as the Kathi Thanda Lake Eyre, Australia but to Indigenous people such as the Arabana it also holds immense cultural…Publication Date 2015
- Arabana
- Australia
- cultural indicators
- indigenous
- Library Collection RecordThe basalt is an area of productive grazing country north and west of Charters Towers. Graziers regard it as a resilient land type and pasture community (Bothriochloa spp. and Heterpogon contortus…Publication Date 2015
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordPastoral Profit is a new extension program which directly addresses the challenges posed by many pastoral livestock producers by targeting business management skills to improve bottom lines,…Publication Date 2015
- Australia
- Windorah
- Queensland
- Wool Innovation
- Library Collection RecordThe Rangelands Cluster Project has been working to facilitate the inclusion of climate change science in natural resource management planning across some of the driest and hottest country on earth…Publication Date 2015
- climate change
- research
- adaptation
- Australia
- collaboration
- knowledge broker
- NRM planning
- Library Collection RecordClimate models indicate that Australia is likely to get hotter, with some data projecting a temperature rise in the range of 3 to 7â—¦C by 2100. Local adaptation responses will be required to…Publication Date 2015
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordThe management of ground cover is central for sustainable pastoral production in the Australian rangelands. Where changes in management achieve an increase in ground cover above the expected, then…Publication Date 2015
- Australia
- ground cover
- market-based instrument
- western New South Wales
- Library Collection RecordThe Australian continent’s rangelands have small populations scattered over huge areas and are characterised by extreme temporal variability and threatening eco-climatic processes and changes …Publication Date 2015
- Australia
- Queensland
- Library Collection RecordIn the same way our Australian rangelands are incredibly large and diverse, yet with many specific ecosystems, our communication and change programs need to be wide reaching yet targeting specific…Publication Date 2015
- Australia
- eExtension
- flipped classroom
- learning journey
- social media
- webinar
- Library Collection RecordIndigenous people in remote regions of Australia are recognised as one of the most vulnerable groups to climate change (Green and Minchin, 2014). This is despite living in widely dispersed…Publication Date 2015
- Australia
- disadvantage
- remote resilience
- remote vulnerability
- transformation
- Library Collection RecordWe report on a collaborative project about climate change and adaptation. The project’s overall goal was to find good ways to build desert Aboriginal people’s understanding of climate change and…Publication Date 2015
- Aboriginal ranger
- Australia
- climate change
- climate science
- erosion control
- indigenous people
- Library Collection RecordThis poster is a case study on the changes in pasture yield, cover and defoliation after the establishment of a new bore. This case study is part of a larger, long-term stocking rate and wet season…Publication Date 2015
- Australia
- cover
- Mitchell grass
- pasture spelling
- stocking rate
- yield
- Library Collection RecordObjectively monitoring trend in the state of Australia’s grazed rangelands has proven elusive because of their extensive area and considerable spatial and temporal variability. National archives of…Publication Date 2015
- state
- Australia
- change
- cover deficit
- ground cover
- Landsat
- persistence
- state
- Library Collection RecordThe threat posed by climate change to cultural heritage and archaeological sites began to ring alarm bells for heritage practitioners over two decades ago. Only very recently, however, has work…Publication Date 2015
- adaptation
- Australia
- cultural heritage
- framework
- ranger group
- Library Collection RecordFire management recommended for biodiversity conservation and reducing greenhouse gas emissions (reduce late dry season fire) contrasts to that for managing woody plant thickening on pastoral lands…Publication Date 2015
- Australia
- fire frequency
- fire management
- savanna burning
- Library Collection RecordThis paper reports on a cost-benefit analysis (CBA) completed for the Queensland Government’s Reef Plan Grazing Best Management Practice (BMP) extension project in the Burdekin catchment,…Publication Date 2015
- Australia
- extension and education
- grazing bmp.
- Project evaluation
- Queensland
- Library Collection RecordIn the many discussions over the last forty years about the significance of Australia-wide Aboriginal fire practices, one concept that has become common is the importance of ‘mosaic burning’ for…Publication Date 2015
- Australia
- Channel Country
- fire management
- mosaic burning
- settlement
- spinifex
- Library Collection RecordThe Pilbara Mesquite Management Committee (PMMC) was one of the first community groups in the WA rangelands to focus on partnering with local land managers in developing local solutions to one of…Publication Date 2015
- Australia
- natural resource management
- partnerships
- rangelands
- weed management
- Library Collection RecordThe Rangelands Partnership started in the U.S. in 2001 as The Western Rangelands Partnership (Hutchinson, et al.) when 19 western Land-Grant Universities in the United States came together to…Publication Date 2015
- Australia
- information systems
- international collaboration
- knowledge sharing
- Mexico
- U.S.
- United Nations
- web portals
- Library Collection RecordThis article presents a range of potential adaptations and innovations and aims at informing about the future transport systems in the rangelands according to different factors of demographic,…Publication Date 2015
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordTechnical and financial barriers to video are now gone. Never before have we been so well equipped to share our story on camera with our communities. While video gear, shooting techniques,…Publication Date 2015
- Australia
- Best Practices
- communications
- engagement
- marketing
- video
- Library Collection RecordWet-season spelling of grazing land is a key recommendation for improving land condition to benefit sustainability, production and profit in agriculture. The Spelling Strategies project aims to…Publication Date 2015
- vegetation
- Central Queensland
- land condition
- pasture yield
- vegetation
- wet season spelling
- Library Collection RecordBeef producers throughout Australia’s rangelands commonly identify predation by wild dogs as a significant threat to calf survival. Lethal control of wild dogs is often advocated as a means to…Publication Date 2015
- predation
- 1080
- Australia
- Dingo
- mesopredator
- wild dog
- Library Collection RecordThis project seeks to improve the evidence base and modelling capacity underpinning recommendations for the use of wet season spelling to recover poor condition grazing land and design more reliable…Publication Date 2015
- Australia
- basal area
- pasture yield
- Library Collection RecordAccess to reliable digital communication technology is the norm for most Australians. The exponential growth of smartphone use continues to revolutionise the way in which Australians conduct their…Publication Date 2015
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordWhile most of Australia’s aridlands have suffered either total loss or serious declines of native fauna, the Martu lands in WA’s Western Desert in the eastern Pilbara provide one of the last…Publication Date 2015
- Australia
- Country
- culture
- Martu
- partnership
- threatened
- Library Collection RecordKiwirrkurra country, in the remote Gibson Desert, hosts important populations of two key threatened species: bilby and great desert skink. These species are sparsely distributed throughout the…Publication Date 2015
- Australia
- bilby
- biodiversity protection
- feral cat
- great desert skink
- hunting
- Kiwirrkurra
- Library Collection RecordLivestock producers desire improved tools to assess the quality and quantity of pasture on offer to adjust stocking rates and provide timely protein and energy supplementation. The NDVI (Normalised…Publication Date 2015
- Australia
- diet quality
- livestock productivity
- Mitchell grass
- NDVI
- Queensland
- Library Collection RecordAlthough grazing lands are more profitable at higher land conditions, rehabilitation of D condition land requires mechanical or chemical intervention (B. Shepherd, pers comm). These interventions…Publication Date 2015
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordMTP Contracting is an Indigenous business operating out of Corella Creek Community in the Barkly Tablelands, NT. Established originally as a contract mustering business, MTP has expanded into NRM…Publication Date 2015
- Australia
- Barkly
- fee-for-service
- indigenous
- innovation
- NRM
- Weeds
- Library Collection RecordThe increase in woody plant density in grasslands and the conversion of open woodlands into shrublands (i.e. woody thickening) is a phenomenon that has been increasingly reported in the past decade…Publication Date 2015
- aerial photograph interpretation
- API
- Australia
- Landsat
- western New South Wales
- Western NSW
- woody thickening
- Library Collection RecordThe feral camel is an established pest animal in Australia. The species occurs across an area of about 3.3 million km2 encompassing parts of Queensland (Qld), South Australia (SA), the Northern…Publication Date 2015
- Australia
- feral herbivore
- landscape scale
- partnerships
- Library Collection RecordThe VegMachine software was developed in 2002 by a national team of RD&E providers, and funded by Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA). The software was designed primarily as a vegetation cover…Publication Date 2015
- remote sensing
- Australia
- ground cover
- Queensland
- remote sensing
- VegMachine
- Library Collection RecordThe National Rangeland NRM Alliance (The Alliance) is a collaboration of 14 rangelands natural resource management bodies operating across 81 per cent of Australia’s landmass. The group works…Publication Date 2015
- investment
- Australia
- collaboration
- policy
- rangeland
- Library Collection RecordThere is a need for beef businesses to regularly collect and analyse data about cattle and pasture performance, to benchmark and improve business performance, to set and adjust stocking rates, to…Publication Date 2015
- Australia
- decision support system
- precision agriculture
- technology development
- Library Collection RecordBeef producers in northern Australia are struggling to cope with climate extremes and have experienced poor and declining profitability over the last decade. Producers on their own have difficulty…Publication Date 2015
- Australia
- benchmarking
- business analysis
- climate change
- profitability
- Library Collection RecordRangeland pastoralism has existed in Australia for almost as long as white settlement. While the basic products have not changed over time, beef, sheep meat and wool, the production processes have…Publication Date 2015
- Australia
- change
- debt.
- financial literacy
- Library Collection RecordThe literature is replete with examples of communities which have suffered significant impacts from nearby mine operations and their subsequent closure. Increasingly, there is awareness amongst the…Publication Date 2015
- Australia
- enduring value
- mine closure
- mine lifecycle
- social responsibility
- Library Collection RecordLarge, extensively grazed paddocks in Australian rangelands are often poorly watered, which causes overgrazing close to water and relatively ungrazed areas further from water. To adjust for watered…Publication Date 2015
- Australia
- grazing radius
- watered area
- Library Collection RecordThe 66,640km2 Mount Isa Inlier/Northwest highlands bioregion in north western Queensland is typified by rugged red rocky hills, low open woodland of spinifex and snappy gum and is the location of…Publication Date 2015
- Australia
- biodiversity
- engagement
- fire
- Managment
- Queensland
- stakeholder
- Library Collection RecordThe Western Local Land Service (LLS) area of operation is large, covering 40% of NSW, with a range of Landsystems and vegetation community types. Under future climate change scenarios, western NSW is…Publication Date 2015
- Australia
- climate
- Landsat
- landscape
- refugia
- remote sensing
- time-series
- western New South Wales
- Library Collection RecordNo documentary to date attempts to portray the diverse human and natural geography of the rangelands of Australia. At the end of 2013 Alun Hoggett, film maker with Desert Channels Group began…Publication Date 2015
- Australia
- Documentary
- film
- geography
- outback
- Library Collection RecordIt is recommended that papers in the conference proceedings be cited in the following manner: Bastin, G, Sparrow, A, Scarth, P., Gill, T. Barneston, J. and Staben G. (2015). Are we there yet?…Publication Date 2015
- Australia
- business strategy
- leading practice
- transformational adaptation