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- Library Collection RecordPhyla canescens (lippia) is an invasive weed from South America that is now widespread throughout floodplains and wetlands of the Murray-Darling Basin in Australia. Lippia has invaded internationally…Publication Date 2008
- floodplains
- grazing management
- competition
- Murray Darling Basin
- seasonal rest
- Library Collection RecordAbstract not available.Publication Date 2006
- alliances
- tourism
- rangelands
- Initiatives
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordAbstract not available.Publication Date 2006
- grazing
- surveys
- land degradation
- guidelines
- 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 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 RecordThe Pigeon Hole Project will develop strategies to cost effectively accelerate the rate of development of the Northern Australian Beef Industry, in an attempt to off set the impacts of the cost price…Publication Date 2006
- projects
- strategies
- beef
- grazing management
- north Australia
- 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 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 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 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 ability of heavy, light, and variable stocking, rotational spelling (R/Spell) and a SOIVariable strategy to cope with rainfall variability was tested over 8 years. Individual annual live weight…Publication Date 2006
- grazing management
- strategies
- animal production
- pastures
- north Queensland
- Library Collection RecordAbstract not available.Publication Date 2006
- grazing management
- Catchment areas
- approaches
- Australia
- neighborhood
- 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 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 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 RecordThis investigation aims to establish the feasibility of managing the grazing of cattle through methods other than increased fencing within the extensive production systems of the Barkly region of the…Publication Date 2006
- grazing management
- cattle
- Alternative methods
- Northern Australia
- Watering Point
- Library Collection RecordA process for estimating long term carrying capacities (LCC) for the land types of the Desert Uplands (DU) has been developed. This project has married the practical wisdom of long term land managers…Publication Date 2006
- models
- carrying capacity
- projects
- grazing management
- Queensland
- 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 RecordThe halophytic shrubs of the West Australian (WA) semi -arid shrublands provide the microbes in the rumen of livestock with a relatively constant source of salt and rumen degradable nitrogen (RDN),…Publication Date 2006
- ecology
- livestock production
- grazing management
- Dietary components
- Western Australia
- Library Collection RecordThis paper describes work to develop a number of educational tools for grazing land managers in the mulga and Mitchell grass bioregions of western Queensland. The tools discussed are a land condition…Publication Date 2006
- grazing management
- frameworks
- tools
- Western Queensland
- 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 RecordAs well as ensuring the continuation of profitable animal production, the focus of grazing management systems is turning towards ongoing, sustainable use of native pastures and maintenance or…Publication Date 2006
- grazing management
- systems
- projects
- Animal Protection.
- north Australia
- Library Collection RecordAbstract not available.Publication Date 2006
- ecology
- grazing management
- monitoring
- natural resources
- New South Wales
- 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 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 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 not available.Publication Date 2006
- frameworks
- grazing management
- Workshops
- north Australia
- Library Collection RecordAbstract not available.Publication Date 2006
- alliances
- networks
- Australia
- groups
- natural resources
- Library Collection RecordAbstract not available.Publication Date 2006
- alliances
- projects
- networks
- deserts
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordThere is increasing impetus for the maintenance of biodiversity values throughout Australia's rangelands. This necessitates an improved understanding of the effects of grazing management on…Publication Date 2004
- grazing management
- assessment
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