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- Library Collection RecordIf the landscape function paradigm is to fulfil expectations, then it must, by definition, make ecological sense at the landscape -scale, as distinct from the patch -scale, and thereby provide…Publication Date 2002
- landscape
- rangelands
- management
- ecosystems
- biodiversity
- indicators
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordThe Indigenous Land Corporation (ILC) is undergoing a period of substantial change in policy and practice. A recent stocktake of ILC purchased properties clearly demonstrates that ownership of land…Publication Date 2002
- rangelands
- management
- indigenous peoples
- landowners
- Australia
- change
- Indigenous Land Corporation
- policy
- Library Collection RecordAbstract not available.Publication Date 2002
- technological changes
- management
- Australia
- Pastoral Industry
- Pastoralists
- Library Collection RecordThis paper describes a cost effective image capture system for remote monitoring and surveillance on rangelands properties. Camera units positioned around a property transmit images using radio to a…Publication Date 2002
- remote control
- management
- rangelands
- monitoring techniques
- Radio
- networks
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordWith rapid advances in electronic, radio and computer technologies, global electronic identification for livestock and companion animals is now technically feasible. It is particularly important for…Publication Date 2002
- livestock
- Radio
- computer techniques
- management
- remote control
- monitoring techniques
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordAbstract not Available.Publication Date 2002
- rangelands
- management
- projects
- environmental management
- landlords
- wildlife management
- New South Wales
- pest control
- Rabbit Control
- Library Collection RecordAbstract not availablePublication Date 2002
- shrublands
- management
- projects
- productivity
- control methods
- monitoring
- environmental conditions
- dynamics
- Monetary policies
- Southern Queensland
- Library Collection RecordAbstract not Available.Publication Date 2002
- monitoring
- landscape
- fires
- satellites
- remote sensing
- management
- rangelands
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordClimate has a large impact on vegetation and animal production in northern Australia. The length of the dry season, variable annual rainfall, extreme temperatures and high evaporation rates make…Publication Date 2002
- grasslands
- rainfall
- weather forecasting
- management
- pastures
- summer
- Northern Australia
- Library Collection RecordAbstract not available.Publication Date 2002
- rainfall
- climate
- management
- information technology
- change
- climate variability
- Queensland
- Library Collection RecordAbstract not available.Publication Date 2002
- vegetation
- management
- salinity
- sustainability
- forests
- ecosystems
- data analysis
- Land Manager
- South Western Queensland
- Library Collection RecordAbstract not available.Publication Date 2002
- sustainability
- frameworks
- management
- rangelands
- investment
- environmental factors
- groups
- Leases
- Western Australia
- Library Collection RecordAbstract not available.Publication Date 2002
- environmental management
- rainfall
- rangelands
- management
- Pressure
- frameworks
- agriculture
- case studies
- Australia
- Pastoralists
- Library Collection RecordAbstract not available.Publication Date 2002
- management
- ecosystems
- projects
- landscape
- monitoring techniques
- mapping
- Australia
- change
- Pastoralists
- Library Collection RecordAbstract not Available.Publication Date 2002
- vegetation
- Pests
- rangelands
- Data
- research
- projects
- management
- pastoral zone
- Western Australia
- Library Collection RecordWith the support of funding from the Land, Water & Wool program, we worked with woolgrowers in north eastern South Australia to adapt MODIS-derived images of cover into products useful for…Publication Date 2006
- remote control
- projects
- paddocks
- monitoring
- management
- South Australia
- Library Collection RecordOver the last few decades, approaches to natural resource management have evolved towards greater recognition of the importance of involving communities in decisions which affect their areas of…Publication Date 2006
- communities
- economics
- management
- people (biology)
- eastern Australia
- Library Collection RecordThe rangelands of Western Australia cover about 85% of the state. Many ecosystems are contained within pastoral leases, where after about 150 years of settlement, extensive changes to vegetation and…Publication Date 2006
- rangelands
- ecosystems
- biodiversity conservation
- management
- Western Australia
- Library Collection RecordThe devolution of responsibility for natural resource management to regional communities via the regional delivery model means there is an increased focus on the capacity of communities within the 57…Publication Date 2006
- management
- projects
- communities
- Scales
- Southern Australia
- Library Collection RecordThe Western Catchment Management Authority is the regional body responsible for implementing positive natural resource management change over a large geographic area of Western New South Wales (…Publication Date 2006
- projects
- management
- natural resources
- change
- western New South Wales
- Library Collection RecordThis paper introduces the use of market based instruments as policies for biodiversity management in the Australian rangelands. We discuss the potential benefits of using MBIs and some of the key…Publication Date 2006
- markets
- biodiversity
- projects
- management
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordAbstract not available.Publication Date 2006
- management
- water
- Salts
- floodplains
- South Australia
- Library Collection RecordExtensive agricultural modification of the North Western Slopes and Plains of NSW has resulted in conditions suitable for the establishment of dense regrowth, especially on private lands. Recent…Publication Date 2006
- regrowth
- trees
- landscape
- management
- northwestern New South Wales
- Library Collection RecordResilience is a concept that is intuitively understood by most rangeland managers. Indeed it is a characteristic required of those who live in the rangelands. In essence it refers to the ability of a…Publication Date 2006
- rangelands
- management
- research programmes
- Australia
- resilience
- Library Collection RecordAustralian rural landscapes are facing a crisis from land degradation, due to rising salinity levels, soil acidification and soil erosion. There is growing consensus amongst the businesses community…Publication Date 2006
- land degradation
- solutions
- sustainability
- management
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordMonitoring and controlling remote infrastructure, particularly water infrastructure, is an expensive and time-consuming activity on extensive pastoral properties. Remote infrastructure management…Publication Date 2006
- telemetry
- management
- infrastructure
- rangelands
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordA project to improve the productivity of cattle breeder herds initiated in 2004 is producing interesting information in the Pilbara and Kimberley of WA. Objectives of this project include determining…Publication Date 2006
- projects
- cattle
- productivity
- management
- Western Australia
- Library Collection RecordThe aim of this paper is to introduce a study that develops, tests and refines techniques for measuring biodiversity condition and management outcomes using before and after scientific experiments of…Publication Date 2006
- biodiversity
- assessment
- management
- South Australia
- Water Point
- Library Collection RecordSustainable Wildlife Enterprises (SWE) is a property -level stewardship initiative that sets out to trial the sustainable commercial use of wildlife. The objective is to create alternative revenue…Publication Date 2006
- trials
- management
- sustainability
- wildlife
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordABSTRACT An overview of the 4 native species of quail in Arizona, their distribution, and habitats is presented. Possible threats to their longterm existence are explored. A discussion on harvest…Publication Date 2002
- Altar Valley
- Arizona
- Gambel's quail
- habitat
- management
- masked bobwhite
- Montezuma quail
- scaled quail
- United States
- Library Collection RecordABSTRACT Five native quail species inhabit arid and semi-arid ecosystems in the southwestern United States. One species is endangered, one species is declining throughout it’s historic range,…Publication Date 2002
- Altar Valley
- Arizona
- Callipepla gambelli
- Callipepla squamata
- Callipepla v. ridgwayi
- Callipepla virginianus
- Cyrtonyx montezumae
- Eradication
- exotic grasses
- management
- native vegetation
- northern bobwhite
- United States
- Library Collection RecordAbstract An estimated 110 Mt of dust is eroded by wind from the Australian land surface each year, mainly originating from the arid and semi-arid rangelands. Livestock production is thought to…Publication Date 2012
- wind erosion
- land degradation
- management
- stocking rate
- Australia
- GRASP
- modelling
- Library Collection RecordAbstract Mesquite (Prosopis spp.) is a Weed of National Significance and is declared in New South Wales under the Noxious Weeds Act 1993 (Class 2). Infestations of mesquite occur in far western…Publication Date 2012
- Australia
- community
- management
- mesquite
- Library Collection RecordThis paper opens the symposium with a description of the biological and economic importance of crested wheatgrass.Publication Date 1986
- Agropyron cristatum
- Intermountain West
- North America
- Western United States
- Library Collection RecordKeynote address for the Crested Wheatgrass Symposium, October 3-7, 1983 in Logan, Utah.Publication Date 1986
- Agropyron cristatum
- Agropyron desertorum
- crested wheatgrass (Agropyron cristatum)
- Intermountain West
- North America
- Western United States
- Library Collection RecordThe first introductions of crested wheatgrass [Agropyron cristatum (L.) Gaertn., A. desertorum (Fisch.) Schult., and related taxa] to North America were made by N. E. Hansen in 1898. Additional…Publication Date 1986
- Agropyron cristatum
- Agropyron desertorum
- drought
- Arid climate
- semiarid climate
- Canada
- North America
- United States
- Library Collection RecordThe purposes of this paper are to review the position of the genus Agropyron in the tribe Triticeae and to examine alternative taxonomic treatments within Agropyron. When Agropyron is defined as…Publication Date 1986
- North America
- crested wheatgrass (Agropyron cristatum)
- North America
- Library Collection RecordConsiderable literature has accumulated concerning seed and seedling relations of crested wheatgrass. The extensive literature covers a period of more than 40 years and is found in a wide variety of…Publication Date 1986
- Agropyron
- Intermountain United States
- Intermountain West
- North America
- Library Collection RecordLarge areas of sagebrush-grass rangelands are brush dominated and are producing 50 percent or less of their forage potential. Conversion of these rangelands to crested wheatgrass for increased forage…Publication Date 1986
- crested wheatgrass
- herbicides
- sagebrush
- North America
- Library Collection RecordCrested wheatgrass seedings in the western United States have persisted as virtual monocultures for over 50 years following their establishment. Such stability typically is attributed to superior…Publication Date 1986
- crested wheatgrass
- North America
- Library Collection RecordVegetation diversity and productivity of western rangelands have been reduced by selective grazing. Range improvement research in the late 1930's and 1940's suggested that controlling…
- land reclamation
- monoculture
- North America
- Library Collection RecordUngrazed crested wheatgrass seedings may intercept from 7 to 22 percent of the annual precipitation. Infiltration rates following seeding are not particularly impacted on coarse-textured soils…Publication Date 1986
- precipitation
- pinyon
- North America
- Library Collection RecordThe history and present status of entomological observations and research in Utah and other states as related to crested wheatgrass is reviewed. The black grass bug Lapops hesperius Uhler is the…Publication Date 1986
- pest control methods
- North America
- Utah
- Library Collection RecordWhen degraded sagebrush communities are converted to grasslands to improve forage production for livestock, impacts on nongame birds occur. Removal of sagebrush results in displacement of the shrub-…Publication Date 1986
- sagebrush
- North America
- perennial grass
- Library Collection RecordDespite the widespread success of crested wheatgrass (Agropyron cristatum and A. desertorum) as a seeded species for rangeland improvement and rehabilitation, the scophysiology of the plant has…Publication Date 1986
- grazing tolerance
- North America
- Photosynthetic capacity
- Library Collection RecordChemical, mechanical and phenological mechanisms by which plants avoid or minimize herbivory have received considerable attention in the last decade (e.g. Janzen 1969; Rosenthal 1977; Cates and…Publication Date 1981
- Agropyron desertorum
- Artemisia tridentata
- North America
- Library Collection RecordThe bunchgrass grwoth form, which is very prominent in water-limited environments, can result in considerable self-shading of photosynthetically active foliage. The consequences of this growth form…Publication Date 1983
- Agropyron
- CO2
- photosynthesis
- North America
- Library Collection RecordAn increase in photosynthetic rates of foliage on partially defoliated plants may be a mechanism to partially compensate for herbivory (McNaughton 1979, 1983, Dyer et al. 1982). This enhanced…Publication Date 1984
- Agropyron
- photosynthesis
- North America
- Library Collection RecordRoot growth responses to defoliation were observed in the field with an improved root periscope technique, which is described. the grazing tolerant, Eurasian bunchgrass, Agropyron desertorum, was…Publication Date 1984
- Agropyron desertorum
- A. spicatum
- North America
- Library Collection RecordSoluble carbohydrate reserves are often considered the primary source of carbon for regrowth defoliation (Cook 1966; Trlica & Singh 1979; Deregibus, Trlica & Jameson 1982). However, in…Publication Date 1985
- Agropyron desertorum
- Agropyron spicatum
- North America