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- Library Collection RecordBook by Karen Launchbaugh et al. concerning Grazing, Rangeland Management, Livestock and other subjectsPublication Date 2006
- grazing
- grassland management
- livestock
- Idaho
- Library Collection RecordRangeland ecosystems support half of the world's livestock while also providing habitats for some of the most charismatic of wildlife species. This book examines the pressures on rangeland…Publication Date 2010
- grassland animals
- grazing
- livestock
- range management
- Library Collection RecordOverseas Development Institute/International Institute for Environment and Development/Commonwealth Secretariat, London (1993) xi + 248 pp. ISBN 0-85003-195-8Publication Date 1995
- rangelands
- ecology
- pastoralism
- savanna
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordA thorough understanding of the behavior of fire in grasslands is critical to the minimization of the impact of fires on agricultural and pastoral land as well as the successful management of the…Publication Date 2010
- fire
- grasslands
- management
- species richness
- climate change
- fire ecology
- agriculture
- pastoralism
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordSummary 10.1002/9780470292136.ch4.abs This chapter contains sections titled: * Objectives for This Chapter * Introduction * Factors Influencing the Agricultural Use of Animals * Animal Distribution…Publication Date 2008
- food production
- physiological adaptation
- buffalo
- livestock
- veterinary service
- agriculture
- management
- sustainability
- animal production
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordAbstract Livestock grazing is often viewed as having detrimental effects on plants and plant communities. Livestock grazing can, however, be managed to be an effective tool for vegetation management…Publication Date 2010
- livestock
- grazing
- nutrition
- ecology
- management
- vegetation dynamics
- ecosystem ecology
- fire ecology
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordLivestock have played a pivotal and positive role in human development. Yet this has come at a heavy cost to the biological diversity of the world's rangelands and forests. Livestock grazing is…Publication Date 2001
- rangelands
- ecology
- livestock
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordVegetation dominated by grasses, which is among the largest ecosystems in the world, has great environmental significance as well as providing feed for livestock and wildlife. Grassland types vary…Publication Date 2001
- savannah
- steppe
- grasses
- herbivory
- grazing
- fire
- savanna
- grasslands
- disturbance
- livestock
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe world population has increased from 2–10 million at the dawn of settled agriculture about 10–12 millennium ago to 6.5 billion in 2006, and may stabilize at 10–12 billion by 2100. Most of…Publication Date 2007
- socio-economic aspects
- agriculture
- pastoralism
- soils
- management
- plant production
- animal production
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordComputer simulation modelling provides a valuable means of understanding the functioning of Australia's rangelands and predicting the outcomes of various management strategies. Models are…Publication Date 2004
- simulation models
- global warming
- pastoralism
- Library Collection RecordIn order to minimise resource damage and enhance long -term productivity, pastoralists need improved seasonal forecasting knowledge and tools to better manage for the high climate variability that…Publication Date 2004
- productivity
- pastoralism
- El Nino
- La Niña
- Library Collection RecordThis paper discusses co-operative efforts between Andado pastoralists and the Parks & WildlifeService of the Northern Territory to fence and protect Acacia peuce (Waddy- wood), a relict species…Publication Date 2004
- pastoralism
- endangered species
- Library Collection RecordLand policy and legislation have been the major factors driving fragmentation of Australian rangelands. At the regional scale, fragmentation of rangelands has facilitated the development of private…Publication Date 2004
- Land Policies
- pastoralism
- Library Collection RecordOff-reserve conservation in the southern rangelands of Western Australia (WA) is gaining momentumat the enterprise level through the participatory Ecosystem Management Understanding (EMU) process.…Publication Date 2004
- indigenous peoples
- mining
- pastoralism
- Library Collection RecordSustainability is clearly the guiding principle of Natural Resource Management in Australia. All the regions in Australia require a Natural Resource Management (NRM) Strategy which sets targets and…Publication Date 2004
- biodiversity
- pastoralism
- Library Collection RecordPastoral managers who over-estimate the chance of good rainfall are likely to carry too many livestock and retain them too long into a dry period. By having an overly optimistic, rather than…Publication Date 2004
- pastoralism
- Arid climate
- Library Collection RecordAlthough many pastoralists use the Department of Land Information's (DLI) Satellite Remote Sensing Services (SRSS) website (http : / /www.dli.wa.ciov.au/ corporate .nsf /web /Fire +Hotspots) to…Publication Date 2004
- satellite imagery
- pastoralism
- Library Collection RecordThe coastal wetlands of the Northern Territory are a valuable resource for conservation, pastoralism, tourism and the commercial utilisation of wildlife. These values are under threat from alien…Publication Date 1992
- pastoralism
- Coastal area
- Australia
- coastal wetlands
- conservation
- Northern Territory
- undefined
- Library Collection RecordMuch of the recent literature and discussion has dealt with sustainable management in terms of either managing ecological sustainability or economic sustainability. Very little discussion or thought…Publication Date 1996
- sustainability
- management
- Factors
- pastoralism
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordAbstract not Available.Publication Date 1996
- Land Administration
- pastoralism
- rangelands
- regional planning
- western New South Wales
- Library Collection RecordAbstract not available.Publication Date 1996
- pastoralism
- mining
- conservation (storage)
- Aboriginal People
- Western Australia
- Library Collection RecordRangeland wildlife dynamics are based on refuge habitats. Piospheres result from grazing impact around waterpoints and biodiversity is affected by grazing intensity. Wildlife losses have been…Publication Date 1996
- islands
- wildlife
- biodiversity
- pastoralism
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordAbstract not Available.Publication Date 2000
- pastoralism
- ecology
- 21th Century
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordAbstract not available.Publication Date 2000
- pastoralism
- Europe
- land
- history
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordSince the mid-nineteenth century - and especially from the 1950s - 'woody weeds' have spread across the red soil country around Gunderbooka Range. I explore human consequences of this…Publication Date 2000
- pastoralism
- Scrub
- Bushfires
- Australia
- woody weeds
- Library Collection RecordAbstract not Available.Publication Date 2000
- pastoralism
- environmental management
- rangelands
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordAbstract not Available.Publication Date 2000
- rangelands
- management
- pastoralism
- economics
- Action plans
- western New South Wales
- Library Collection RecordAbstract not available.Publication Date 2002
- pastoralism
- land management
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordAustralian rangelands have been perceived as supporting a pastoral economy for more than 150 years. This perception originated from colonial expansion in a frontier economy, with State and…Publication Date 2002
- pastoralism
- Economic Importance
- rangelands
- mining
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordAbstract not Available.Publication Date 2000
- livestock
- kangaroos
- rangelands
- site
- soil moisture
- ecosystems
- Soil surface properties
- Bulk density (soil)
- Australia
- Exclusion
- Landscape Function Analysis
- Library Collection RecordAustralia's rangelands have a distinctive land tenure regime, namely pastoral leasehold, capable of adaptive reform to accommodate emerging multiple values, uses and users. The most promising…Publication Date 2002
- land tenure
- pastoralism
- land reform
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordThis paper considers how pastoral lease arrangements may affect the emergence of non - pastoral land uses in the Australian rangelands. Non - pastoral land uses can include farming of non-…Publication Date 2002
- land reform
- land tenure
- pastoralism
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordWith rapid advances in electronic, radio and computer technologies, global electronic identification for livestock and companion animals is now technically feasible. It is particularly important for…Publication Date 2002
- livestock
- Radio
- computer techniques
- management
- remote control
- monitoring techniques
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordAbstract not available.Publication Date 2002
- grazing management
- livestock
- information
- Market research
- educational needs
- Northern Australia
- Library Collection RecordAbstract not Available.Publication Date 2002
- projects
- livestock
- Sediment
- cleaning
- costs
- rangelands
- sampling
- biological agent
- sampl
- Water Point
- Western 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 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 RecordPastoralists need to manage the feed gap risk that climatic/forage resource variability presents. We use the PHYGROW model to better understand interactions between this variability and the…Publication Date 2010
- pastoralism
- climate
- Gobi Desert
- Mongolia
- variability
- Library Collection RecordResearch and Development in the rangelands of Australia has typically been reductionist in nature, focussing on segments of what is in reality a deeply integrated system of interaction containing…Publication Date 2010
- pastoralism
- interdisciplinary research
- community attitudes
- 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 RecordIncreasing world human population, declining reserves of cheaply extracted fossil fuels, fresh water scarcity, and climatic instability will put tremendous pressure on world rangelands as the…Publication Date 2012
- forage
- livestock
- Library Collection RecordThe emerging carbon economy will have a major impact on grazing businesses due to significant livestock methane and land-use change emissions. Livestock methane alone accounts for around 11% of…Publication Date 2008
- carbon
- livestock
- methane emission
- budgets
- Library Collection RecordExtensive pastoralism, (that is, the grazing of sheep and cattle) occupied 3.67 million km2 (59% of the rangelands) and contributed $1.8 billion (74% of rangeland agricultural production) in 2001 (…Publication Date 2008
- pastoralism
- sustainable agriculture
- degradation
- fires
- Library Collection RecordMODIS ‘visible’ red band imagery was used to develop a scaled index of vegetation cover to assist land condition monitoring programs of the pastoral lands of the semi-arid and arid Northern…Publication Date 2008
- analysis
- pastoralism
- Library Collection RecordThe Desert Knowledge Cooperative Research Centre’s (DKCRC) WaterSmart Pastoral ProductionTM Project was established in 2005 with the aims of (i) encouraging pastoralists to understand how optimise…Publication Date 2008
- pastoralism
- rainfall
- production
- Library Collection RecordA joint team from the Department of Agriculture and the Department of Land Information has recentlycompleted its largest endeavour yet - land classification, mapping and resource evaluation of 181,…Publication Date 2004
- land classification
- mapping
- pastoralism
- resource evaluation
- Library Collection RecordAlthough fences are ubiquitous in Australian landscapes, they are neglected objects of study. Fencesare the basic management tools used to separate property, livestock and crops, and to…Publication Date 2004
- livestock
- crops
- management
- Library Collection RecordThe numbers and canopy size of shrubs and trees increased on the majority of Western AustralianRangeland Monitoring System (WARMS) sites in the arid and semi -arid shrublands of WesternAustralia over…Publication Date 2004
- pastoralism
- Arid
- recruits
- semi-arid
- 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 RecordThe Great Artesian Basin (GAB) is one of the world's largest artesian water reservoirs, and perhapsarid Australia's most important water resource. GAB springs and soaks provide crucial…Publication Date 2004
- Water reservoirs
- mining
- pastoralism