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- Library Collection RecordIn the summer of 1974 -75 wildfires burnt 3.75 million ha of rangeland country in western New South Wales. Most of this was in woodland vegetation mallee, belah or bimble box, where many of the…Publication Date 2014
- Australia
- western New South Wales
- Library Collection RecordSurface runoff in the mulga (AcaciaaneuraF.Muel.) lands of south western Quensland was recorded from small plots using both natural and artificial rainfall. Runoff was higher from the hard mulga and…Publication Date 2014
- artificial rainfall
- Australia
- Mulga
- runoff
- South Western Queensland
- Library Collection RecordNumerous lists of plant species, ranging from excursion notes to ecological surveys, have been published in New South Wales during the last one hundred years (Pickard 1972). The more detailed of…Publication Date 2014
- Australia
- Central-Western New South Wales
- pastures
- trangie
- Library Collection RecordThe effect of climate and grazing by rabbits on black bluebush Maireana pyramidata seedlings growing on sand dunes and scalded loam flats was studied over a four- year period near Meninde, N.S.W.…Publication Date 2014
- Australia
- Black Bluebush
- Maireana Pyramidata
- rabbits
- western New South Wales
- Library Collection RecordChanges in cover afforded by sandhill canegrass (Zygochloaparadoxa) have been studied on a low dune near Menindee in Western New South Wales for 23 years. Areal cover of live and dead culms has…Publication Date 2014
- Australia
- Dunes
- Sandhill Canegrass
- western New South Wales
- Library Collection RecordIn 1976, the Animal Industry and. Agriculture Branch of the Department of the Northern Territory commenced a systematic survey of pasture conditions on cattle stations in the Alice Springs district.…Publication Date 2014
- Agriculture Branch
- Alice Springs
- animal industry
- Australia
- Department of the Northern Territory
- Library Collection RecordLand system mapping of the resources of the arid and semi-arid lands in Queensland is continuing. To date, some 31 million hectares of pastoral land have been mapped. The reports, have either been…Publication Date 2014
- Australia
- hectares
- rangeland inventories
- Library Collection RecordThe concepts of range condition assessment have been widely (though not universally) accepted in principle by personnel concerned with rangelands in western New South Wales. The methodology and its…Publication Date 2014
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordThe argument that rangeland managers should assess the condition of their vegetation stresses the serious costs, to the nation and to the manager, which may arise from failing to do this. At this…Publication Date 2014
- Australia
- Rangeland Managers
- Library Collection RecordIt has been said in the last few years that the management of rangelands must proceed through three stages:- (1) An inventory of the natural resources; (2) Determination of the successional stage of…Publication Date 2014
- Australia
- Central Australia
- inventory
- natural resources
- Library Collection RecordIn order to assess the current level of stock watering facilities on pastoral properties within the western Riverina, and to relate this information to paddock size and vegetation type, large areas…Publication Date 2014
- Australia
- New South Wales
- Paddock
- Riverina district
- stock water supplies
- Library Collection RecordThe green standing material,dry standing material and litter in the herbaceous layer of a Central Australian woodland were sampled using sets of nested quadrats of various proportions. By minimising…Publication Date 2014
- Australia
- biomass
- Central Australia
- herbaceous vegetation
- woodland
- Library Collection RecordThe problems confronting those concerned with the management of wildlife, particularly the larger species of wildlife such as kangaroos, are similar to the problems of those involved in range…Publication Date 2014
- Australia
- New South Wales
- northwestern New South Wales
- Library Collection RecordWyoming is a rangeland state! Around 85% of the state is considered rangelands. These rangelands are not only an important part of Wyoming’s history and culture, but also influence the ecosystems…Publication Date 2014
- rangelands
- Introduction
- Wyoming
- Library Collection RecordWyoming is a rangeland state! Around 85% of the state is considered rangelands. These rangelands are not only an important part of Wyoming’s history and culture, but also influence the ecosystems…Publication Date 2014
- rangelands
- Introduction
- Wyoming
- Library Collection RecordA number of different criteria have been used to determine the response of rangeland to management and as an index of range condition (Parker,1954). The most common methods involve estimates of the…Publication Date 2014
- Australia
- New South Wales
- rangeland grasses
- Library Collection RecordThe initial study program relating to reclamation of the hard eroded ridges of the Cobar Pediplain, has recently been completed at Cobar Experimental Area.
 The studies involved treatment of the…Publication Date 2014
- Australia
- Cobar Experimantal Area
- New South Wales
- Library Collection RecordOn the Ground • Mexican scholarship has often obscured women’s contributions to small-scale sheep production by using imprecise descriptions as to who producers are, what they do, and why. Such women…Publication Date 2013-12-02
- gendered roles in livestock management
- rangelands
- diffusion of innovations
- small ruminants
- Library Collection RecordWoody plant effects on grass production at specific points in some rangeland savannas may be a function of numerous surrounding woody plants with lateral roots that extend into those patches of grass…Publication Date 2013-11-01
- brush invasion
- competition
- lateral roots
- Prosopis glandulosa
- rangelands
- remote sensing
- Library Collection RecordDowny brome or cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum) and medusahead (Taeniatherum caput-medusae) are the most problematic invasive annual grasses in rangelands of the western United States, including…Publication Date 2013-09-01
- annual grass
- imazapic
- invasive
- rangelands
- revegetation
- Library Collection RecordTraditional upland livestock grazing is declining worldwide, leading to concerns about possible impacts on biodiversity. Although monitoring of protected areas often focuses on rare species,…Publication Date 2013-07-01
- field methods
- herbivory
- joint learning
- rangelands
- stakeholder participation
- structural heterogeneity
- Library Collection RecordThe importance of sexual reproduction in tussock grasses that regenerate through vegetative growth is unclear. Festuca gracillima Hook. f. was studied as a model because it is a perennial tussock-…Publication Date 2013-03-01
- demography
- Festuca gracillima
- rangelands
- sexual reproduction
- sheep
- soil seed bank
- Library Collection RecordOn the Ground • Range scientists, managers, and practitioners can benefit by including history in their current monitoring and restoration efforts. • A symposium at the 2012 SRM Annual Meeting…Publication Date 2013-02-01
- history
- range management
- rangelands
- Library Collection RecordIn this paper the use of fenced grazing camps to manage the rangeland commons is challenged. A historical perspective is presented on fencing and rotational grazing in South Africa. Two case studies…Publication Date 2013
- grazing
- management
- communal agriculture
- rangelands
- fending
- Commercial farming
- land tenure
- socio-economic aspects
- biodiversity
- Sustainable development
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe paper critiques Vetter's (in this issue) assertion that commercialisation of smallholder agriculture holds dangers for sustainable rangeland management. The paper argues that a range of…Publication Date 2013
- sustainability
- communal farming
- subsistence agriculture
- rangelands
- management
- policy
- smallholder farming
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordWildfires can have significant impacts on rangeland productivity and functionality causing substantial economic losses to affected farmers. In August 2011, such wildfires swept through the North West…Publication Date 2013
- fire ecology
- rangelands
- plant production
- management
- grazing
- socio-economic aspects
- biodiversity
- savanna
- rainfall
- grazing capacity
- erosion
- ecosystem ecology
- soil nutrients
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordIn the savanna rangelands of southern Africa, the debate about land reform tends to be about the redistribution of formerly freehold ranches and fencing-off the rangeland commons into ranches for…Publication Date 2013
- savanna
- rangelands
- management
- land reform
- communal farming
- sustainability
- policies
- socio-economic aspects
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe invasion of exotic grasses into savannas is occurring globally. Despite threats to ecosystem processes and biodiversity, few studies have investigated factors that facilitate invasion success. *…Publication Date 2013
- cattle grazing
- exotic grass
- facilitation
- grass-fire cycle
- savanna
- wind dispersal
- grazing
- Alien invasive species
- ecosystem ecology
- restoration ecology
- Cenchrus ciliaris
- grasses
- fire ecology
- grazing
- soils
- rainfall
- drought
- Queensland
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordPastoralists in Namaqualand, South Africa, use herd mobility to manage livestock and rangeland resources. However, their socioeconomic conditions and ecological landscapes are changing and we explore…Publication Date 2013
- management
- livestock
- socio-economic aspects
- rangelands
- communal farming
- policy
- pastoralism
- grazing
- Namaqualand
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordMany of the intransigent problems facing the world arise in complex systems. In this paper, I propose that communal rangelands in South Africa be recognised as complex social-ecological systems and…Publication Date 2013
- communal farming
- rangelands
- socio-economic aspects
- Sustainable development
- climate change
- policy
- management
- modelling
- subsistence agriculture
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe creation of local institutions with a mandate over land access and control is seen as a prerequisite for successful decentralisation of land tenure and effective local resource management in sub-…Publication Date 2013
- land tenure
- management
- policy
- rangelands
- communal agriculture
- subsistence agriculture
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordThis paper was prepared in response to a paper prepared by Vetter (in this issue) that addressed the issue of policy development related to sustainable management of rangelands. In line with the…Publication Date 2013
- policy
- Sustainable development
- management
- subsistence agriculture
- rangelands
- livestock
- agriculture
- animal productivity
- Plant Productivity
- Msinga
- KwaZulu-Natal
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordLivestock farming in communal areas is an activity pursued by rural households as one of a range of livelihood strategies aimed at spreading risk. The cash and non-cash benefits derived from…Publication Date 2013
- communal farming
- rural areas
- subsistence agriculture
- socio-economic aspects
- rangelands
- policy
- management
- livestock production
- Poverty
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordPolicy affecting the rangeland commons in South Africa has been based largely on management models developed for large-scale commercial farming. This paper examines the current policy situation and…Publication Date 2013
- policy
- socio-economic aspects
- rangelands
- Communal areas
- management
- Sustainable development
- agriculture
- livestock
- Tenure
- legislation
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe 1971 Wild Free-Roaming Horse and Burro Act was created to maintain horses on public lands, but is that the case anymore? According to a policy forum article, A Critical Crossroad for BLM’s Wild…Publication Date 2013
- rangelands
- horses
- Bureau of Land Management
- Western United States
- wild burros
- wild horses
- Library Collection RecordEvaluating vegetation cover is an important factor in understanding the sustainability of many ecosystems. Remote sensing methods with sufficient accuracy could dramatically alter how biotic…Publication Date 2012-07-01
- imagery
- monitoring
- rangelands
- SamplePoint
- unmanned aerial vehicle
- Library Collection RecordMedusahead (Taeniatherum caput-medusae [L.] Nevski), the most problematic invasive grass on many California rangelands, is difficult to control selectively in grasslands. Prescribed burning, grazing…Publication Date 2012-07-01
- chemicals
- invasive
- rangelands
- selective
- Taeniatherum caput-medusae
- weed
- Library Collection RecordHalf of the world’s land base is grazed by domesticated livestock. Because of the important functional role of ants in grasslands, it is important to understand the effect of livestock grazing on ant…Publication Date 2012-05-01
- disturbance
- Formicidae
- productivity
- rangelands
- semiarid grasslands
- Library Collection RecordPublication Date 2012
- rangelands
- Library Collection RecordPublication Date 2012
- carbon
- soil
- plants
- biomass
- rangelands
- Library Collection RecordPublication Date 2012
- forage
- quality
- infrared radiation
- calibration
- rangelands
- Library Collection RecordPublication Date 2012
- plants
- rangelands
- environmental factors
- Library Collection RecordPublication Date 2012
- control methods
- fires
- rangelands
- Ethiopia
- grazing
- Nature conservation
- biodiversity
- species
- land use
- Library Collection RecordPublication Date 2012
- fertilizer application
- nitrogen
- nitrogen fixation
- Nitrogen cycle
- range management
- rangelands
- Library Collection RecordPublication Date 2012
- rangelands
- phenology
- grazing systems
- Library Collection RecordPublication Date 2012
- data collection
- rangelands
- pastoralism
- grazing systems
- Drug plants
- journals
- Indigenous knowledge
- Library Collection RecordPublication Date 2012
- data collection
- rangelands
- pastoralism
- grazing systems
- Drug plants
- journals
- Indigenous knowledge
- Library Collection RecordPublication Date 2012
- forests
- rangelands
- food security
- Library Collection RecordPublication Date 2012
- rangelands
- resource conservation
- forests
- Forestry policies
- FAO
- Regional development
- National planning
- cooperation
- Library Collection RecordAuthor summary: "...In this paper, I will talk about my experience of the last 4 years, managing my grazing enterprise as a complex system. I will tell you a bit about what I’ve done…Publication Date 2012
- grazing
- stocking rate
- wool production
- sheep
- Nutritional Requirements
- Australia
- complex systems