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- Library Collection RecordThis simulation study compared the cattle productivity and sustainability of fixed stocking with that of 55 flexible stocking strategies at 28 locations across Queensland and the Northern Territory…Publication Date 2015
- cattle productivity
- Northern Australia
- pasture condition
- Queensland
- rainfall
- stocking rate management
- Library Collection RecordThis paper documents three decades of innovation by a leading producer in the Barkly region of the Northern Territory. Many of the practices are being adopted by other producers, including…Publication Date 2015
- Barkley Tableland
- Northern Australia
- Library Collection RecordThe Indigenous Pastoral Program (IPP) has been operating since 2003 with the objective to develop viable Indigenous pastoral businesses that improve the social-economic standing and livelihoods of…Publication Date 2015
- Indigenous Land Corporation
- Northern Australia
- Library Collection RecordResearch to underpin the green-field development of northern Australia requires the integration of science from a wide range of disciplines. Data and information on natural resources for most areas…Publication Date 2015
- agricultural development
- inter-disciplinary
- Northern Australia
- northern development
- organizational learning
- water resources
- 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 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 RecordWe present an overview of a range of social science projects that have recently been conducted on the northern Australian rangelands. These projects have focused on understanding the current capacity…Publication Date 2015
- adoption of new practices
- climate adaptation
- Northern Australia
- resilience
- resource dependency
- social science
- vulnerability to change
- 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 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 RecordThe land suffered under pastoral management by outsiders across the eastern APY Lands. Grazing management was no better (perhaps worse) than before when we got the APY Act and agistment began. We…Publication Date 2015
- South Australia
- 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 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 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 RecordThe European rabbit, Oryctolagus cuniculus, was the last of the feral mammals to reach Central Australia. The rabbit had reached the N.T. border from NW South Australia in small numbers by 1901 (…Publication Date 2014
- abundance
- Australia
- Central Australia
- distribution
- European Rabbits
- Northern Territory
- Oryctolagus cuniculus
- rabbits
- South Australia
- 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 Despite the northern beef industry’s longevity, scale and importance, recent disruptions to external markets have demonstrated a degree of industry vulnerability to supply chain shocks…Publication Date 2012
- transport
- infrastructure
- beef
- Northern Australia
- optimisation
- 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 RecordThe Northern Grazing Systems project aims to increase adoption of innovative best-practice grazing management by beef producers throughout northern Australia. Four key areas requiring research,…Publication Date 2010
- simulation models
- extensive grazing
- Northern Australia
- utilisation rate
- Library Collection RecordDespite their vast size and a declining workforce it is possible to manage pastoral leases effectively by focusing on landscape function to identify key critical areas. Natural and human-induced…Publication Date 2010
- landscape
- management
- effective
- South Australia
- 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 RecordA heavy mineral sand mine has commenced operations on the eastern edge of the Nullarbor Plain, South Australia. This area has low annual rainfall and frequent drought, resulting in challenges in…Publication Date 2010
- mining
- rehabilitation
- Cyanobacteria
- Nullarbor Plain
- South 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 RecordAn environment modified for rangelands sheep farming has created conditions where feral goat (Capra hircus) populations can escalate if unchecked. The impacts of feral goats onnative vegetation,…Publication Date 2010
- integrated management
- collaboration
- South Australia
- unmanaged goats
- Library Collection Record“Beefplan†was originally designed by MLA some ten years ago as an experiment. MLA recognised that a lot of the results of research in northern Australia were still sitting on the shelf and had…Publication Date 2008
- research
- Business Management
- Northern Australia
- Library Collection RecordThere is a continuum of cattle grazing systems used in the rangelands, with increasing levels of intensification from continuous, through spelling and rotations, to cells. These aim to produce…Publication Date 2006
- grazing systems
- research projects
- beef cattle
- Northern 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 RecordAbstract not available.Publication Date 2006
- management
- water
- Salts
- floodplains
- South Australia
- Library Collection RecordThe South Australian rangelands are characterised by dominant chenopod shrubs with over - story of long -lived tree species. Because of longevity of many plants, population models are widely…Publication Date 2006
- projections
- sustainability
- plants
- models
- South Australia
- Library Collection Record1. The South Australian Rangelands and Aboriginal Lands Wildlife Management Manual is a detailed interim synthesis of current knowledge. It allows enlightened holistic management of Outback…Publication Date 2006
- wildlife management
- projects
- stakeholders
- South Australia
- Library Collection RecordWith the support of funding from the Land, Water & Wool program, we worked with woolgrowers in north eastern South Australia to adapt MODIS-derived images of cover into products useful for…Publication Date 2006
- remote control
- projects
- paddocks
- monitoring
- management
- South 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 RecordAbstract not available.Publication Date 2006
- information technology
- projects
- Pastoral Industry
- South Australia
- Library Collection RecordBuffel grass is an introduced perennial tussock grass, which has improved rangeland pastoral production and helped land rehabilitation. More recently, its invasive capacity has been of concern and…Publication Date 2006
- mapping
- adaptation
- Buffel grass (Cenchrus)
- Northern Australia
- species composition
- Library Collection RecordThe Commonwealth land system in the former Kingoonya Soil Conservation District of South Australia is highly susceptible to disturbance and its ability to recover is variable, depending on physical…Publication Date 2006
- monitoring
- systems
- assessment
- Commonwealth of Australia
- South Australia
- 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 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 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 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 RecordAbstract not available.Publication Date 2006
- intensification
- grazing lands
- sustainability
- grazing pressure
- Northern 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 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 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 RecordAbstract not available.Publication Date 2006
- ecological zones
- projects
- changes
- South Australia
- threatened species
- Library Collection RecordA F.NIRS calibration equation was developed for predicting the 13C ratio in faeces, and therefore the proportions of C4 tropical grasses to C3 non-grass plants (primarily forbs, legumes and browses)…Publication Date 2006
- calibration
- measurement
- seasonality
- grazing
- Northern Australia
- Library Collection RecordThe study examined the ability of two ground survey methods to thoroughly characterise the woody-perennial species richness of single sample sites or environmental regions. It focused on the Stony…Publication Date 2006
- species
- assessment
- monitoring
- vegetation
- South Australia
- Library Collection RecordA strong ethos of independence is a well known characteristic of rangelands pastoral businesses. It is only in relatively recent times that pastoral businesses have begun participating in cooperative…Publication Date 2006
- pastoralism
- Businesses
- Group communication
- Independence.
- South Australia
- 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