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- Library Collection RecordIn the 1980’s CSIRO and QDPI established a number of pasture legume evaluation trials throughout clay soil regions in Queensland’s semiarid tropical rangelands. These sites have long since been…Publication Date 2008
- rangelands
- Desmanthus
- Cahrters Towers
- Library Collection RecordThe South Australian Government is currently contributing to the Australian Collaborative Rangeland Information System (ACRIS) through information collected at pastoral monitoring sites, biological…Publication Date 2006
- rangelands
- Data
- information systems
- change
- South Australia
- Library Collection RecordPATCHKEY is a new conceptual patch classification model extending the QLD DPI &F ABCD system for describing grazing induced patch changes. Using both vegetation and soil variables we are able…Publication Date 2006
- models
- landscape
- grazing
- Australia
- patch
- Library Collection RecordAs a keen observer of habitat change on my property, regular recording and monitoring has been carried out to measure changes using key photo points. The record keeping is simple and consistently…Publication Date 2006
- monitoring
- photography
- rangelands
- Landholder
- southwestern New South Wales
- Station
- Library Collection RecordACRIS is the Australian Collaborative Rangeland Information System. Here, we describe how ACRIS is progressing towards an information system to report and understand change in the rangelands. This…Publication Date 2006
- information systems
- rangelands
- reports
- Australia
- change
- 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 RecordAbstract not available.Publication Date 2006
- alliances
- rangelands
- government
- Catchment basins
- eastern Australia
- Library Collection RecordA grazing trial begun in the Victoria River District (VRD) in 1993 aimed to determine sustainable management strategies and stocking rates that were optimal in terms of both ecology and economics.…Publication Date 2006
- rangelands
- grazing
- stocking rate
- Sustainable economic development
- Northern Australia
- Library Collection RecordMany animals create soil surface disturbances (biopedturbation) while constructing habitat, foraging for food or excavating resting sites. We studied the effects of foraging pits of the Short-Beaked…Publication Date 2006
- ecosystems
- animals
- Woodland soils
- engineers
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordSmall mammal, reptile, ant and plant diversity, soil health and landscape condition were compared at sites that were either 1) reserved for conservation, 2) currently stocked or 3) long-ungrazed…Publication Date 2006
- conservation (storage)
- woodlands
- grazing
- animals
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordThe Central Australian Grazing Strategies Partnership is a collaboration between the CLMA, NT DPIFM, Desert Knowledge CRC, CSIRO and the pastoral industry, to promote research into rangeland spell…Publication Date 2006
- rangelands
- grazing management
- strategies
- sustainability
- Central Australia
- Library Collection RecordRangeland pastures are characterised by considerable variability in forage quality and supply. Grasses have poor nutritive value in summer and autumn, with insufficient energy and protein to maintain…Publication Date 2006
- animal nutrition
- grasses
- seasonality
- risk
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordBiological Soil Crust (BSC) can potentially be used to estimate grazing pressure, which in turn can be used as an indicator of rangeland condition. BSC is easily disturbed by hardfooted animals such…Publication Date 2006
- indicators
- rangelands
- Australia
- grazing pressure
- Watering Point
- 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 RecordAvailable technology now allows individual animals to be identified and weighed whenever they access water, data to be telemetered to a remote computer, and animals to be automatically drafted on the…Publication Date 2006
- livestock production
- frameworks
- risk management
- seasonality
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordRapid Mobile Data Collection (RMDC) is an innovative technique that enables a large amount of data to be collected over extensive areas in near-real time. These data have a wide range of applications…Publication Date 2006
- data collection
- monitoring techniques
- satellite imagery
- rangelands
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordUnderstanding when and where seasonal climate outlooks provide reliable decision support information is an important step to increasing confidence in and adoption of climate risk assessment in…Publication Date 2006
- risk assessment
- frameworks
- seasonal variation
- climate
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordAs part of a larger project to determine "the production and biodiversity costs and benefits of woodland thickening and mechanical thinning in the Qld Desert Uplands ", data was gathered…Publication Date 2006
- trees
- thinning
- strategies
- Australia
- clearing
- Library Collection RecordCattle distribution data from GPS collars, and spatial patterns of defoliation and pasture productivity are being used to compare the effectiveness of reducing paddock size to that of installing…Publication Date 2006
- rangelands
- grazing management
- livestock production
- Australia
- grazing distribution
- Library Collection RecordA national germplasm collection and evaluation of two of the three recognised subspecies of Atriplex nummularia (Oldman Saltbush) i.e ssp. nummularia and ssp. spathulata is being undertaken. Seed…Publication Date 2006
- cultivars
- Germplasm collections
- DNA
- Australia
- specimens
- Library Collection RecordGluepot Reserve is Australia's largest community owned and managed conservation Reserve. Purchased by Birds Australia in July 1997, Gluepot Station was a marginal sheep property. By successfully…Publication Date 2006
- birds
- biodiversity conservation
- land management
- community services
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordLife in desert regions of Australia (and indeed worldwide) is affected by a combination of factors: variability in climate, markets and policy that is outside the control of local people; sparse and…Publication Date 2006
- deserts
- Living conditions
- sciences
- Australia
- 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 RecordAbstract not available.Publication Date 2006
- grazing management
- Catchment areas
- approaches
- Australia
- neighborhood
- Library Collection RecordSummer rainfall is the dominant influence on pasture composition in Astrebla grasslands, although grazing can modify this rainfall influence. Predictions for climate change for northern Australia…Publication Date 2006
- climate change
- species
- composition
- grasses
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordThe Indigenous Land Corporation (ILC) has a mandate to deliver cultural, social, environmental and economic benefits to indigenous landholders across Australia. A focus on capacity development,…Publication Date 2006
- indigenous peoples
- sustainability
- projects
- Australia
- Landholder
- Library Collection RecordIn 2004 and 2005, Australian Wool Innovation (AWI) and Land & Water Australia (LWA) commissioned a scenario planning project as a component of their broader Land Water & Wool program. Using a…Publication Date 2006
- Wool industry
- projects
- approaches
- Plans
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordThe purpose of this project is to understand the contribution that protected areas have to the quality of life of regional and rural communities. The research methodology uses collected and compiled…Publication Date 2006
- projects
- Australia
- community management
- protected areas
- research
- Library Collection RecordAbstract not available.Publication Date 2006
- alliances
- networks
- Australia
- groups
- natural resources
- Library Collection RecordSustainable Wildlife Enterprises (SWE) trials are an initiative by the Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation ( RIRDC). They seek to integrate Australia's native wildlife into…Publication Date 2006
- trials
- sustainability
- wildlife
- Australia
- commercialization
- Library Collection RecordThis paper endeavours to map out the steps that two families took in order to move their business ahead and also to adopt a rotational grazing system in the semi -arid rangelands of far western N.S.W…Publication Date 2006
- Businesses
- grazing systems
- rangelands
- change
- western New South Wales
- Library Collection RecordSustainable grazing management systems need to be both economically viable and environmentally sustainable. Pasture spelling is now widely recommended, with its timing of great importance. Three key…Publication Date 2006
- grazing management
- sustainability
- timing
- Australia
- perennial grass
- Library Collection RecordThirty-one producers from western Queensland trialled and evaluated an Environmental Management System (EMS) that was customised for the pastoral industry. This evaluation was conducted using three…Publication Date 2006
- evaluation
- Management information systems
- rangelands
- Pastoral Industry
- Western Queensland
- Library Collection RecordA demonstration site has been developed in conjunction with Warrawagine Station and the Department of Agriculture and Food to investigate the benefits of maintaining individual animal records to…Publication Date 2006
- monitoring
- cattle
- livestock production
- Australia
- Production Records
- Library Collection RecordWe present a new stage-structured model activated in Excel to project potential impacts of grazing and rainfall (drought) over up to 500 years on population numbers of trees and shrubs in the…Publication Date 2006
- projections
- grazing management
- rainfall
- trees
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordAbstract not available.Publication Date 2006
- alliances
- projects
- networks
- deserts
- Australia
- 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 RecordThe use of faecal Near Infra -red Reflectance Spectroscopy (NIRS) to predict the diet quality selected by grazing cattle and future body condition of cattle has been evaluated for several common…Publication Date 2006
- tools
- cattle
- grazing management
- Diet preferences
- Australia
- diet
- Library Collection RecordAbstract not available.Publication Date 2006
- grazing
- surveys
- land degradation
- guidelines
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordThe Eastern Sierra region of California is on the western edge of the Great Basin Desert of the United States. Livestock are typically grazed on a mix of private and public lands. Public lands are…Publication Date 2006
- rangelands
- Natural resources management
- conservation (storage)
- livestock
- California
- Library Collection RecordThe Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) is an Agency of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) in the United States of America (USA). The agency provides technical and financial…Publication Date 2006
- natural resources
- conservation (storage)
- rangelands
- Departments
- United States
- 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 RecordAbstract not available.Publication Date 2006
- alliances
- tourism
- rangelands
- Initiatives
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordAbstract not available.Publication Date 2006
- ecosystems
- rangelands
- Desiccation (physiology)
- Australia
- Homogenisation
- Library Collection RecordThe history of vermin fences in Australia provides key lessons for biodiversity fences in the Australian arid zone: the best available design based on hard experience is essential; maintenance is…Publication Date 2006
- fences
- biodiversity conservation
- arid zones
- predators
- 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 relatively short history of systematic rangeland monitoring in Western Australia, spanning about one third of the pastoral industry's existence, has led to the current state wide program,…Publication Date 2006
- history
- rangelands
- monitoring
- programmes
- Western Australia
- Library Collection RecordWestern NSW, like the rest of the Australian pastoral zone, has experienced well documented land degradation associated with droughts (1879 -1902, 1943 -1945, 1960 -1964 and 1982) (McKeon et al., …Publication Date 2004
- wool production
- sheep
- drought
- land degradation
- rainfall
- climate data
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordAbstract not available.Publication Date 2002
- economics
- development
- Natural resources management
- Structural policies
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordWEST 2000 was one of the initial 12 rural partnership programs based across regional Australia. The program was a partnership between the Commonwealth and NSW Governments and the pastoralists of the…Publication Date 2002
- stakeholders
- Rural development
- Australia
- rural partnership
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