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- Library Collection RecordSurface runoff was recorded from small plots situated in the mulga rangelands of Queensland. Even small falls of rain ( <15 mm) produced runoff equivalent to over 50% of the rain. Plant tussocks…Publication Date 2014
- Amelorating effect
- Australia
- plant cover
- Queensland
- rainfall
- runoff
- Library Collection RecordAustralia's Rangelands include the Arid Zone, occupying 70 percent of the continent, and native, or natural pastures in the higher rainfall districts. This paper is concerned with the latter…Publication Date 2014
- Australia
- Dumaresq River
- Gwydir River
- Macintyre River
- Namoi River
- New South Wales
- Northern Tablelands
- water yield
- Library Collection RecordResults are presented of a survey of costs, returns and profitability in the Eastern Mulga Land Resource Region of south -west Queensland. It was based on seven mixed sheep - cattle properties…Publication Date 2014
- Australia
- Mulga Survey
- South-West Queensland
- Library Collection RecordThis study examines contact between twelve large Australian Pastoral Companies and the Queensland Department of Primary Industries (QDPI). Most contact is with the veterinary services branch.…Publication Date 2014
- Australia
- Australian Pastoral Companies
- Queensland
- state department
- Library Collection RecordIt is readily understood that when natural grasslands and shrublands are grazed there will be some changes in the plant community. The more permanent changes, arising from the loss of some plant…Publication Date 2014
- Australia
- New South Wales
- Library Collection RecordLand system surveys have described the biological characteristics of significant areas of Australian rangelands. For full use to be made of this information it needs to be complimented with…Publication Date 2014
- animal performance
- management constraints
- South West Queensland
- Library Collection RecordThe effect of certain land tenure requirements and the influence of death duties on pastoral business structures in far south west Queensland is outlined. Seventy -four percent of sheep…Publication Date 2014
- Australia
- South West Queensland
- Library Collection RecordHistorically, livestock have been the main method of converting rangeland production into financial returns. It is possible that livestock will continue in this role, for the major portion of…Publication Date 2014
- Australia
- livestock
- Library Collection RecordControl of animal numbers is the most important management tool available for use on extensive pastoral lands. Other complementary tools include the control of animal distribution through the…Publication Date 2014
- Australia
- grazing capacity
- 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 RecordSheep diet at a plant species level for seven occasions during 1974 -76 is presented for a woodland community under four different managements. The wide variation in grazing preference with…Publication Date 2014
- Australia
- New South Wales
- semi-arid
- woodland
- Library Collection RecordRunoff and soil water have been measured on differently managed areas of shrub invaded semi -arid woodland near Coolabah, in north-western N.S.W. Measurements commenced in spring of 1975 and are…Publication Date 2014
- Australia
- northwestern New South Wales
- 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 RecordSurface runoff in the mulga (AcaciaaneuraF.Muel.) lands of south western Quensland was recorded from small plots using both natural and artificial rainfall. Runoff was higher from the hard mulga and…Publication Date 2014
- artificial rainfall
- Australia
- Mulga
- runoff
- South Western Queensland
- Library Collection RecordNumerous lists of plant species, ranging from excursion notes to ecological surveys, have been published in New South Wales during the last one hundred years (Pickard 1972). The more detailed of…Publication Date 2014
- Australia
- Central-Western New South Wales
- pastures
- trangie
- 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 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 RecordLand system mapping of the resources of the arid and semi-arid lands in Queensland is continuing. To date, some 31 million hectares of pastoral land have been mapped. The reports, have either been…Publication Date 2014
- Australia
- hectares
- rangeland inventories
- Library Collection RecordThe initial study program relating to reclamation of the hard eroded ridges of the Cobar Pediplain, has recently been completed at Cobar Experimental Area.
 The studies involved treatment of the…Publication Date 2014
- Australia
- Cobar Experimantal Area
- New South Wales
- Library Collection RecordA number of different criteria have been used to determine the response of rangeland to management and as an index of range condition (Parker,1954). The most common methods involve estimates of the…Publication Date 2014
- Australia
- New South Wales
- rangeland grasses
- Library Collection RecordThe problems confronting those concerned with the management of wildlife, particularly the larger species of wildlife such as kangaroos, are similar to the problems of those involved in range…Publication Date 2014
- Australia
- New South Wales
- northwestern New South Wales
- Library Collection RecordThe green standing material,dry standing material and litter in the herbaceous layer of a Central Australian woodland were sampled using sets of nested quadrats of various proportions. By minimising…Publication Date 2014
- Australia
- biomass
- Central Australia
- herbaceous vegetation
- woodland
- Library Collection RecordIn order to assess the current level of stock watering facilities on pastoral properties within the western Riverina, and to relate this information to paddock size and vegetation type, large areas…Publication Date 2014
- Australia
- New South Wales
- Paddock
- Riverina district
- stock water supplies
- Library Collection RecordIt has been said in the last few years that the management of rangelands must proceed through three stages:- (1) An inventory of the natural resources; (2) Determination of the successional stage of…Publication Date 2014
- Australia
- Central Australia
- inventory
- natural resources
- Library Collection RecordThe argument that rangeland managers should assess the condition of their vegetation stresses the serious costs, to the nation and to the manager, which may arise from failing to do this. At this…Publication Date 2014
- Australia
- Rangeland Managers
- Library Collection RecordThe concepts of range condition assessment have been widely (though not universally) accepted in principle by personnel concerned with rangelands in western New South Wales. The methodology and its…Publication Date 2014
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordIn 1976, the Animal Industry and. Agriculture Branch of the Department of the Northern Territory commenced a systematic survey of pasture conditions on cattle stations in the Alice Springs district.…Publication Date 2014
- Agriculture Branch
- Alice Springs
- animal industry
- Australia
- Department of the Northern Territory
- Library Collection RecordIt would be fair to say that this society was created because a group of rangeland scientists arrived at the conclusion that there was a need for change in which Australian rangelands are used and…Publication Date 2014
- Australia
- created
- objectives
- Library Collection RecordBoth the condition and the productive potential of Australia's rangelands indicate a neglect of these resources by governments, research organisations and teaching institutions. There is a need…Publication Date 2014
- Queensland
- Library Collection RecordUsing principles established by Maslow the relationship between a manager's needs and the stocking strategy he adopts is explored. Conclusions from economic and social surveys of the arid zone…Publication Date 2014
- arid Australia
- Australia
- Land Acts
- principles
- Library Collection RecordAt present the only penalty that land administrators may use in managing a lease is forfriture. There is a need for administrators to be able to use less severe penalties. A system of fines is…Publication Date 2014
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordAt the CSIRO Division of Land Resources Management, Deniliquin, a project to identify the impact of economic, administrative, and social influences on rangeland management has begun. This paper…Publication Date 2014
- Australia
- New South Wales
- Library Collection RecordFree-ranging livestock play a pivotal role globally in the conversion of plant tissue into products and services that support man's many and changing lifestyles. With domestication came the task…Publication Date 2014
- Library Collection RecordA comparatively new demographic phenomenon occurring in the central Australian arid rangelands is the establishment of micro - communities, of homelands or outstation Aboriginal people, scattered…Publication Date 2014
- Library Collection RecordAfter 50 years of experience in the Arid Zone, I am not optimistic that it is possible for economic continuous grazing of the pastoral lands without very drastic management changes. In an article of…Publication Date 2014
- Library Collection RecordA method for obtaining quantitative diet information for sheep is described. It requires no elaborate equipment or procedures. Dietary intake is measured as the daily difference in available forage…Publication Date 2014
- Library Collection RecordAnimal activity and the distribution of' faeces were studied on a small paddock grazed intensively by Merino sheep. Irrespective of whether sites were used for camping or grazing, the pattern of…Publication Date 2014
- Library Collection RecordIn a mulga (Acacia aneura) woodland pasture, the survival of mature grasses and their seedlings was more strongly influenced by seasonal conditions than by grazing, although heavily grazed pastures…Publication Date 2014
- Library Collection RecordThe population dynamics of Astrebla spp. at two levels of grazing and exclosure are expressed in the form of age structure and used to project the likely changes due to drought. It is concluded that…Publication Date 2014
- Library Collection RecordThe effect of sheep and rabbits grazing on the vegetation and its regeneration measured in the 275 mm annual rainfall zone on three overgrazed sites between 1968 and 1980. It was found that where the…Publication Date 2014
- Library Collection RecordIn two Mulga pasture types and in a Sandy Open Woodland, the effect of exclosure from grazing cattle during seven years,and distance from water were studied. Standing biomass levels fluctuated more…Publication Date 2014
- Library Collection RecordIncreases in temperature and grazing intensity are believed to promote the relative abundance of C4 plants in grassland communities in Inner Mongolia. However, there is a lack of understanding as to…Publication Date 2014
- Library Collection RecordThis study was carried out to evaluate the vulnerability of the herders in the grassland areas of Northern China. The results showed that, as a consequence of less capital accumulation, the herders…Publication Date 2014
- Library Collection RecordMost of Inner Mongolia is covered with natural grassland and is highly sensitive to global climate change because of the physical geography, the highly variable climate, and the complicated…Publication Date 2014
- Library Collection RecordUnderstanding the relationship between the aboveground net primary production (ANPP) and annual precipitation in arid and semiarid grasslands is crucial for assessing the effects of climate change on…Publication Date 2014
- Library Collection RecordHerders' perceptions are important in relation to adopting adaptive behavioural approaches to climate change. A survey of 1080 herder households was conducted in six rangeland regions of Inner…Publication Date 2014
- Library Collection RecordSoil respiration is a major process for organic carbon losses from arid ecosystems. A field experiment was conducted in 2010 and 2012 on the responses to continuous grazing, rotational grazing and no…Publication Date 2014
- Library Collection RecordHerders' desirable stocking rates and their opinions of overstocking were studied using survey and multi-regression methods in the meadow steppe, typical steppe and desert steppe regions of…Publication Date 2014
- Library Collection RecordThis paper reports the effects of different deferments of sheep grazing on plant variables of desert steppe vegetation in Inner Mongolia during 2010-2012. The study was initiated in May 2010 and…Publication Date 2014
- Library Collection RecordThe objectives of this study were to explore the impact of climate change and human activities on the annual production of aboveground biomass of vegetation during the past 31 years at a county scale…Publication Date 2014