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- Library Collection RecordPositively influencing the grazing distribution of livestock will have benefits to productivity and landscape function. A behaviour-based approach, termed Rangelands Self Herding (RSH), is being…Publication Date 2015
- adaptive management
- grazing distribution
- landscape function
- Western Australia
- 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 RecordThe 66,640km2 Mount Isa Inlier/Northwest highlands bioregion in north western Queensland is typified by rugged red rocky hills, low open woodland of spinifex and snappy gum and is the location of…Publication Date 2015
- Australia
- biodiversity
- engagement
- fire
- Managment
- Queensland
- stakeholder
- Library Collection RecordThe main agricultural industry in South West Queensland is rangeland grazing. Historically, this has encompassed wool production, however, a decline in the sheep industry and an increase in the…Publication Date 2015
- agriculture
- biodiversity
- collaboration
- fencing
- grazing-pressure
- South Western Queensland
- wild-dog
- 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 RecordWe report on a project about fire management and indigenous knowledge sharing. Unexpectedly, Martu preferentially chose a video production rather than other media to share knowledge about fire. We…Publication Date 2015
- Aboriginal rangers
- fire management
- Indigenous knowledge
- video production
- Western Australia
- Library Collection RecordThe Western Local Land Service (LLS) area of operation is large, covering 40% of NSW, with a range of Landsystems and vegetation community types. Under future climate change scenarios, western NSW is…Publication Date 2015
- Australia
- climate
- Landsat
- landscape
- refugia
- remote sensing
- time-series
- western New South Wales
- 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 RecordThe pre -settlement fire regime had a major influence on vegetation. Pastoral activities significantly modified the fire regime by altering the vegetation, the suppression of wildfires and deliberate…Publication Date 2014
- Australia
- control
- prescribed burns
- western New South Wales
- wildfires
- Library Collection RecordThe Problem of Woody Weeds Woody weeds ( "scrub regrowth ") are the main cause of reduced productivity over large areas of western N.S.W. There are many genera and species involved in the…Publication Date 2014
- Australia
- chemical control
- western New South Wales
- woody weeds
- 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 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 RecordRecords were kept of the free ranging cattle herd on Prairie Downs station. Prairie Downs is located approximately 70 km South of the town of Newman in the East Pilbara region of W.A. The area has…Publication Date 2014
- cattle
- Pilbara region
- Western Australia
- 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 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 RecordThis paper focuses on the natural resources of the southern rangelands of Western Australia,from the Pilbara south, where the main activities (based on area) are pastoralism, tourism, Aboriginal…Publication Date 2012
- rangelands
- planning
- degradation
- Australia
- Western Australia
- Library Collection RecordAbstract The conflict that exists between the competing needs of biological conservation and those of pastoral production is well recognised, however, few studies examine these conflicts due to…Publication Date 2012
- biodiversity
- production
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordThe recent review of Western Australian’s State Planning Strategy sought to refocus, rebuild and reactivate the State’s regional planning capabilities. The strategy is based on six fundamental…Publication Date 2012
- population growth
- economic development
- Western Australia
- Library Collection RecordLiterature suggests that provision of artificial water through bores, dams and ground tanks has negative environmental effects through increased grazing pressure, prevention of native species…Publication Date 2010
- biodiversity
- grazing pressure
- Water Point
- Library Collection RecordWestern Australia has 57 of its approximately 500 pastoral leases owned in some form by Aboriginal communities. Ownership of pastoral leases has provided many Aboriginal communities in the rangelands…Publication Date 2010
- pastoralism
- economics
- Aboriginal
- Western Australia
- Library Collection RecordPastoralists across five shires in the West Australian (WA) arid shrublands have designed a project to determine how to cost-effectively regenerate the productive capacity of their land. The…Publication Date 2010
- kangaroos
- grazing
- shrublands
- Western Australia
- Library Collection RecordThe Australian rangelands cover around 80% of the continent yet,from a biodiversity perspective, probably constitutes the most understudied part. To further the understanding of these ecosystems and…Publication Date 2010
- biodiversity
- rangelands
- reference sites
- Library Collection RecordThis paper explores the relationships between graziers’ goals, perceived impediments to biodiversity conservation and suitable incentives to facilitate the adoption of conservation practices in the…Publication Date 2008
- biodiversity
- grazing management
- Library Collection RecordBeef production is the most widespread land use in subtropical rangelands. Producers in these and other rangelands face many challenges to maintain profitability (e.g. declining terms of trade,…Publication Date 2008
- erosion
- biodiversity
- Burnett Region
- herd economic model
- south-eastern Queensland
- Library Collection RecordThe management of invasive or thickening woody species on western NSW rangelands has a chequered history. The issue was clearly recognised in the early years of pastoral settlement, but during the…Publication Date 2008
- biodiversity
- Library Collection RecordWe investigated the use of several current measures of landscape health (Landscape Function Analysis, structure/composition/function (SCF)) as surrogates or indicators of arthropod biodiversity in…Publication Date 2008
- biodiversity
- Eucalyptus populnea
- Library Collection RecordThe role of intra-specific diversity in maintaining species diversity and plant communities is not well understood however has significant implications for rangeland restoration because intraspecific…Publication Date 2008
- species diversity
- revegetation plants
- quantitative traits
- western New South Wales
- Library Collection RecordRecent field research has established that biological soil crust communities (cyanobacteria, lichens, liverworts and mosses) are widespread across the rangelands of Queensland. Our survey has covered…Publication Date 2008
- Cyanobacteria
- biodiversity
- cyanobacterial soil crusts
- Queensland
- Library Collection RecordAn average 5 million hectares is burnt annually in Queensland’s Cape York Peninsula (CYP) region, which totals approximately 13.5 million hectares. Fire scars in CYP have been mapped using…Publication Date 2008
- timing
- topography
- biodiversity
- adhesives
- extent
- Queensland's Cape York Peninsula region
- Library Collection RecordBuffel grass (Cenchrus ciliaris) is a contentious species, being valued in many regions of the Australian rangelands for its contribution to livestock production, while also being widely regarded as…Publication Date 2008
- Cenchrus ciliaris
- livestock production
- biodiversity
- 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 RecordHistorically, in the WA southern rangelands the traditional approach of many pastoral stations to grazing management was to set stocking rates based on previous year's tallies and to make…Publication Date 2006
- grazing management
- sustainability
- stocking rate
- livestock production
- Western Australia
- 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 RecordPrior to the widespread development of permanent watering points across the WA semiarid rangelands, kangaroo grazing pressure was largely moderated by access to ephemeral water supply. Unlimited,…Publication Date 2006
- semiarid zones
- strategies
- committees
- grazing pressure
- Western Australia
- Library Collection RecordMatching livestock numbers with seasonal variation in forage supply is a major challenge for rangeland graziers. This paper describes the use of a spatial pasture growth model (Paddock GRASP) to…Publication Date 2006
- paddocks
- stocking rate
- frameworks
- management techniques
- western New South Wales
- Library Collection RecordThe use of climate variability information is only one element among many that pastoralists use to 'get the stocking rate right'. In recent years, there has been a large increase in the…Publication Date 2006
- stocking rate
- assessment
- grazing management
- climate variability
- Western Australia
- Library Collection RecordFor the first time, a region wide assessment of change across the southern shrublands of Western Australia is reported, using information from the Western Australian Rangeland Monitoring System (…Publication Date 2006
- monitoring
- assessment
- plants
- degradation
- Western 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 RecordThe Western Australian portion of the Nullarbor Plain currently supports 19 pastoral leases. The most remarkable feature one notices when looking at satellite imagery of the area are the '…Publication Date 2006
- satellite imagery
- vegetation
- change
- Watering Point
- Western Australia
- Library Collection RecordWe estimate that almost 80% of the landscapes of the Gascoyne Catchment have become severely degraded since the introduction of ungulate grazing animals ~150 years ago. This indicates a trend of…Publication Date 2006
- landscape
- degradation
- projects
- Grazing Animal
- Western Australia
- Library Collection RecordStocking rate decisions in western NSW are complicated by variable and largely non-seasonal rainfall. We sought to define 'trigger points' that could assist stocking decisions, particularly…Publication Date 2006
- stocking rate
- models
- risk management
- seasonality
- western New South Wales
- Library Collection RecordThe Western Australian Rangeland Monitoring System (WARMS) provides an assessment of change at district or vegetation group level. Site density is insufficient for lease-level assessment; such…Publication Date 2006
- monitoring
- programmes
- Leases
- databases
- Western 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 RecordVarious methods of pastoral intensification are being explored by producers in the northern Australian rangelands in order to increase production and improve economic performance. However, increased…Publication Date 2006
- biodiversity
- projects
- grazing management
- Biota
- northwestern Australia
- Library Collection RecordVegMachine© is a monitoring tool that allows pastoralists to view satellite-based long-term cover change maps on property and extract this information to a graphical format. This paper discusses the…Publication Date 2006
- remote sensing
- monitoring techniques
- tools
- Pastoralists
- 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 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 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 RecordFloodouts at tributary junctions formed during major floods when sediment was dumped in the flow path. Dense vegetation grows in the floodouts in a geomorphological/ecological feedback: the…Publication Date 2006
- landscape
- Floods (rising water)
- vegetation
- ecology
- western New South Wales