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- Library Collection RecordSeed pods of Dichrostachys cinerea and Acacia nilotica have higher nutritive value than grasses and other browse plants during the dry season and form an important part of the diet of livestock.…Publication Date 2021
- Library Collection RecordThe distribution of livestock grazing is a key principle of range management. This study examines pastoralists' perceptions of the factors that affect the distribution of livestock in the…Publication Date 2021
- Library Collection RecordCurrent methods to measure aboveground biomass (AGB) do not deliver adequate results in relation to the extent and spatial variability that characterise rangelands. An optimised protocol for the…Publication Date 2021
- Library Collection RecordThe Nullarbor region is a vast gently undulating limestone based plain through Western Australia and South Australia (Figure 1). The climate is arid or semi-arid, with hot dry summers, cold winters…Publication Date 2015
- ecology
- ecosystem
- innovation
- production
- sustainability
- transition
- Western Australia
- Library Collection RecordThe Altun National Nature Reserve, located on the northern edge of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau of China, is one of 35 most important biodiversity sites worldwide. Land-use and cover change are…Publication Date 2015
- Library Collection RecordThe changes in vegetation composition and plant diversity of three different alpine ecosystems: alpine meadow, alpine steppe and alpine desert, impacted by different levels of degradation (healthy,…Publication Date 2015
- 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 RecordOvergrazing and climate warming may be important drivers of alpine rangeland degradation in the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau (QTP). In this study, the effects of grazing and experimental warming on the…Publication Date 2015
- Library Collection RecordThe objective of this study was to estimate geographical distribution of Halocnemum strobilaceum and Artemisia sieberi species, finding the most important variables in the distribution of these…Publication Date 2015
- AUC
- Australia
- geostatistics
- Kappa coefficient
- Maxent
- potential habitat
- Library Collection RecordNorthern Australian beef businesses face productivity, profitability and environmental pressures, and improving land condition and animal performance is a key business priority for many beef…Publication Date 2015
- animal productivity
- case-study property
- land condition
- Northern Australia
- simulated spelling strategies
- 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 RecordGrassland degradation on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau has become one of the most important issues for ecological science and policy-making in China. Even though researchers have explained the process…Publication Date 2015
- Library Collection RecordIn 2014 Ngadju were granted Native Title over some 10 million hectares of southern Western Australia, including exclusive possession over 5 million hectares of unallocated crown land in the Great…Publication Date 2015
- Australia
- 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 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 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 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 RecordThe Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands are freehold aboriginal lands spanning approximately 10 million hectares of country in the North West corner of South Australia. APY Land…Publication Date 2015
- APY
- buffel grass
- fire
- IPA
- South Australia
- South Australia
- threatened species
- 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 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 RecordA joint three year Australian Government Overseas Aid Program (Aus Aid) African training partnership between the University of New England, Armidale and Central West Catchment Management Authority…Publication Date 2015
- African trainees
- Aus Aid
- Australia
- rehabilitation
- training
- waterponding
- Waterspreading
- 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 RecordOvergrazing around water sources has long been a problem for resource management, and therefore productivity, on cattle stations in northern Australia. This paper presents observations from a…Publication Date 2015
- 3P grasses
- cattle grazing
- land condition
- Northern Australia
- pasture composition
- Library Collection RecordRangelands provide several valuable ecological services and provide for the livelihoods of local herders on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau (QTP). However, rangelands are being degraded due to…Publication Date 2015
- 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 RecordBanning of grazing is a widely used means of restoring degraded rangeland in China. However, little is known about the time required to restore degraded alpine meadows through the use of a grazing…Publication Date 2015
- Library Collection RecordThis special issue covers a wide range of topics on the protection and sustainable management of alpine rangelands on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau (QTP), including Indigenous knowledge of sustainable…Publication Date 2015
- 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
- Library Collection RecordThis paper evaluated changes in vegetation from 2000 to 2012, based on 1-km resolution 16-day composite Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) Normalised Difference Vegetation Index (…Publication Date 2015
- Library Collection RecordEcosystem services emerged as a concept to bridge ecosystem conservation and the sustainable use of natural resources. Given the limited funding and resources available for ecosystem conservation,…Publication Date 2015
- Library Collection RecordThe relationships among environmental factors, rodent activity disturbance and plant-community diversity were studied across four sites in a prefecture of the Three-River-Source' region of the…Publication Date 2015
- Library Collection RecordSoil organic carbon (SOC) stocks were measured at three water points in the same paddock on the Barkly Tableland in 2013. The water points were selected based on age - the oldest was established in…Publication Date 2015
- Barkly Tableland
- carbon farming
- grazing intensity
- Northern Australia
- vertosol
- Water Point
- Library Collection RecordTotal grazing pressure (TGP) management is advocated to increase ground cover but few rangeland studies have provided direct evidence of the relationship between management and natural resources.…Publication Date 2015
- biodiversity
- ground cover
- soil carbon
- western New South Wales
- 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 RecordAdjusting stocking rates to match changes in pasture availability is a key recommendation for sustainable management of grazing lands. ‘Stocktake Plus’, an application for smart devices, has a…Publication Date 2015
- Northern Australia
- pasture photo standards
- stocking rates
- stocktake plus
- unpalatable yield
- Library Collection RecordTo examine biodiversity-ecosystem function relationships in alpine grasslands of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, we compared differences in plant species and functional group diversity (sedges, grasses…Publication Date 2015
- 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 RecordThis study was conducted in the Hudong-Ketu area to the south-east of Qinghai Lake, China, one of the main habitats of Przewalski's gazelle (Procapra przewalskii). The objective was to…Publication Date 2015
- Library Collection RecordOne of the focuses of global change research is on the impact of climate change on alpine vegetation. The Altun Mountain National Nature Reserve is the largest alpine desert rangeland reserve in…Publication Date 2015
- Library Collection RecordSince 2007, state agencies on the east coast of Australia and the University of Queensland have been collaborating through the Joint Remote Sensing Research Program (JRSRP). This has resulted in a…Publication Date 2015
- land condition
- modelling
- Queensland
- remote sensing
- Library Collection RecordMost rangelands in Jordan are degraded and contain almost no perennial vegetation. A study was conducted near Tal alRumman, Jordan to evaluate grazing behaviour of sheep under typical sheep…Publication Date 2014
- Library Collection RecordExcess sediments from agricultural areas are having a detrimental impact on the Great Barrier Reef, and threaten the long-term viability of rangeland grazing. Changes to grazing management have been…Publication Date 2014
- Library Collection RecordPublication Date 2014
- Library Collection RecordThe growing popularity of the Dorper breed of sheep potentially may have implications for the ecological sustainability of the semiarid and arid rangelands of southern Australia. The implications are…Publication Date 2014
- Library Collection RecordThe objectives of this study were to explore the impact of climate change and human activities on the annual production of aboveground biomass of vegetation during the past 31 years at a county scale…Publication Date 2014
- Library Collection RecordLeymus chinensis (Trin.) Tzvelev grassland is the most widely distributed native steppe vegetation type suitable for haymaking in the semiarid pastoral regions of north-east Asia. The long-term…Publication Date 2014
- Library Collection RecordThe recent trend to farming or re-domestication of feral goats poses serious questions for the ecological sustainability of the semiarid and arid rangelands of southern Australia. This paper reviews…Publication Date 2014
- Library Collection RecordMexico is one of the two centres of diversification of oaks (Quercus spp.) in the world, with 161 species, 66% of which are endemic. The local-scale analysis of trends in climate variables, using…Publication Date 2014
- Library Collection RecordThis paper reports the effects of different deferments of sheep grazing on plant variables of desert steppe vegetation in Inner Mongolia during 2010-2012. The study was initiated in May 2010 and…Publication Date 2014
- Library Collection RecordClimate change, associated with increased aridity, and high grazing pressure by livestock results in the scarcity and loss of perennial Poaceae in arid ecosystems. The species threatened by this…Publication Date 2014