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- 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 RecordAbstract Mainly, Pastures of Iran are located in arid and semiarid regions. But according to local meteorological studies, Band Ghora in Kashmar has semi-arid and cold climate. 3 to 4 times…Publication Date 2012
- grazing management
- Arc Map
- Arc View
- Australia
- Bande Ghora in Kashmar
- grazing management
- locating the improved pasture project
- saw
- seeding
- Library Collection RecordAbstract Invasive native scrub (INS) has caused major changes to landscapes in Western NSW with adverse effects on pastoral production and aspects of biodiversity. The reduction in the incidence…Publication Date 2012
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordAbstract There has been a reduced use of fire as a management tool in grazing systems within the Burdekin rangelands since the wet years of the 1970’s. Several severe droughts and the adverse…Publication Date 2012
- grazing
- Australia
- Extension
- woodland thickening
- Library Collection RecordAbstract Flora monitoring throughout the Australian rangelands has been intrinsically linked to rangeland management throughout grazing history. Although this monitoring is often carried out daily…Publication Date 2012
- flora
- Australia
- monitoring
- rangeland
- Library Collection RecordDust storms are the result of soil erosion by wind. They cause considerable damage both at their site of origin (e.g. the farm paddock, Leys and McTainsh1994) and down wind as they deposit unwanted…Publication Date 2012
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordABSTRACT Is the use of rangelands for cattle production consistent with the conservation of natural habitat? The problem is discussed in the context of a case study of Toomba Station, a fully…Publication Date 2012
- grazing
- sustainability
- Australia
- conservation
- Library Collection RecordAbstract: North Queensland coastal wetlands have been severely degraded by the Weeds of National Significance (WoNS), Hymenachne amplexicaulis (Olive hymenachne) with lesser impacts by Salvinia…Publication Date 2012
- rehabilitation
- management
- herbicides
- Australia
- Nywaigi
- Library Collection RecordThe Kimberley is a spectacular place, renowned for its natural and cultural significance as well as its raw beauty. It holds a special place for many people, locally, in Western Australia, …Publication Date 2012
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordNatural resource management (NRM) groups have been co-funding the removal of cattle from riparian zones by installing fences and off-stream watering points. Riparian areas provide not only a source…Publication Date 2012
- environmental protection
- Australia
- automated animal control
- GPS
- Library Collection RecordPrediction of feed intake in beef enterprises is important for feed budgeting, productivity, profitability and environmental outcomes (e.g. carbon and methane accounting). The objective of this…Publication Date 2012
- feed intake
- Australia
- model
- tropical forages
- Library Collection RecordAbstract The establishment of trees on farms provides shade and shelter for grazing livestock. Many trees and shrubs are also important feed sources, especially during periods of pasture scarcity…Publication Date 2012
- agroforestry
- Australia
- goats
- shade and shelter
- Library Collection RecordAbstract Surveys by the Lachlan Catchment Management Authority have mapped the locations of isolated breeding groups of endangered Malleefowl Leipoa ocellata. These populations occur within highly…Publication Date 2012
- Australia
- exclusion fencing
- Malleefowl
- pest animal management
- Library Collection RecordAbstract The recent introduction of new sheep breeds such as the Dorper and the increasing trend to farming feral goats, pose serious questions for the ecological sustainability of the semi-arid…Publication Date 2012
- Australia
- Dorper grazing behaviour
- grazing strategy
- Library Collection RecordAusPlots-Rangelands developed and is implementing continental scale, plotbased biodiversity survey and sampling methods for rangelands bioregions.Publication Date 2012
- AusPlots
- Australia
- Australian rangelands
- biodiversity survey
- Library Collection RecordAbstract. Bladdder saltbush (Atriplex vesicaria) is used extensively as an indicator of land condition in chenopod shrublands in South Australia. It is palatable, long lived, drought tolerant and…Publication Date 2012
- drought
- mortality
- Atriplex vesicaria
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordHow does a mine site environmental advisor convince a mine manager to let them light a fire within a few hundred meters of two fresh air intakes of an underground mine, a 320 man camp and a massive…Publication Date 2012
- planning
- communication
- controlled burning
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordCyanobacterial-dominated soil crusts are found worldwide in arid and savannah landscapes where the rainfall occurs mostly in summer (Büdel 2002).Publication Date 2012
- Cyanobacteria
- nitrogen fixation
- soil crusts
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordAbstract The contribution of non-domestic grazing pressure to pastoral areas of western NSW has been reported to increase grazing intensity by at least 50%. Any control of these external grazing…Publication Date 2012
- biodiversity
- grazing management
- Australia
- ground cover
- Library Collection RecordAusPlots-Rangelands is establishing permanent surveillance plots throughout the Australian rangelands to assess baseline stocks and condition of vegetation and soils at a continental-scale and…Publication Date 2012
- Australia
- Australian rangelands
- biodiversity surveys
- Permanent Plots
- Library Collection RecordOn-ground works completed at Larrawa station producer demonstration site in 2011 focussed on building open water ponds and collecting data on their cost($) to construct.Publication Date 2012
- Australia
- grader and cost
- water pond
- Library Collection RecordAbstract: In an effort to streamline the monitoring of pastoral leases in South Australia the Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources (DEWNR) Pastoral Unit has developed and…Publication Date 2012
- Australia
- data entry
- field tablets
- Library Collection RecordAbstract. This project seeks to improve the evidence base and modelling capacity underpinning recommendations for use of wet season spelling to recover poor condition grazing land and design more…Publication Date 2012
- composition
- Australia
- Condition
- spelling
- Library Collection RecordYearly monitoring of a Waterponding site in the Nyngan district for seven years has given encouraging results. Bare scalded semi-arid areas in western New South Wales are being transformed into…Publication Date 2012
- Australia
- monitoring
- rehabilitation
- waterponding
- Library Collection RecordWaterspreading is a land rehabilitation technique that targets the variability of rainfall and runoff in semi-arid systems to initiate long term changes in ground cover. This study outlines the…Publication Date 2012
- land management
- Australia
- Environmental
- Invasive native scrub
- soil carbon
- Waterspreading
- Library Collection RecordAbstract Mitchell Grass pastures are valued for their high carrying capacity and traditionally there has been some reluctance to use fire in their management. The effects of fire in a cattle…Publication Date 2012
- grazing
- Australia
- fire
- grazing
- Mitchell grass
- Library Collection RecordAbstract A new trial investigating wet season spelling (with and without early wet season burning) to improve land condition commenced on Delamere station in the Victoria River District (VRD) in…Publication Date 2012
- cattle
- 3P grasses
- Australia
- savanna burning