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- Library Collection RecordThis paper reports on the services and support delivered by the Queensland Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (DAFF) to the Burdekin rangelands grazing industry from July 2011 through…Publication Date 2015
- Extension
- practice change
- project
- Queensland
- water quality
- Library Collection RecordThe exotic shrub Calotropis procera (Aiton) W.T. Aiton (rubber bush) is spreading throughout the Barkly Tablelands region (Northern Territory) where land managers are concerned about apparent…Publication Date 2015
- Calotrope
- Chemical
- Queensland
- threat
- weed
- Library Collection RecordThis project seeks to improve the evidence base and modelling capacity underpinning recommendations for the use of wet season spelling to recover poor condition grazing land and design more reliable…Publication Date 2015
- Australia
- basal area
- pasture yield
- 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 RecordGraziers in the Western Catchment of New South Wales (NSW)experience a climate that varies both seasonally and across the region withseveral implications forhow land, water, pasture and animal…Publication Date 2012
- climate change
- graziers
- Western Catchment in NSW
- Library Collection RecordNorthern Australian beef businesses are currently facing a challenging time with significant pressure on profitability across all regions. Simultaneously,the community and Government are…Publication Date 2012
- profitability
- carbon sequestration
- greenhouse gas emissions
- north Australia
- Library Collection RecordThe majority of Australian grazing lands have been degraded since European settlement, resulting in loss of soil carbon and reduced capacity to provide ecosystem services, from primary productivity…Publication Date 2012
- grazing lands
- degradation
- south-eastern 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 RecordThe Finke is often touted as the oldest river on earth. The veracity of this is hard to quantify, as are statements about the Finke’s significant biodiversity. Until recently, limited biological…Publication Date 2015
- arid-zone
- Central Australia
- ecosystem
- refuge
- Library Collection RecordWater is of paramount importance to all people that live in regions such as the Kathi Thanda Lake Eyre, Australia but to Indigenous people such as the Arabana it also holds immense cultural…Publication Date 2015
- Arabana
- Australia
- cultural indicators
- indigenous
- Library Collection RecordThe ecological history of rangelands is often presented as a tale of devastation, where fragile drylands are irreversibly degraded through inappropriate land-use. There is confusion about how to…Publication Date 2015
- degradation
- eastern Australia
- grazing
- rare species
- Vegetation Change
- 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 way that Western Arrarnta people pass knowledge down through generations has changed drastically in the last 150 years. Western Arrarnta young people today are educated through a modern…Publication Date 2015
- Central Australia
- digital media
- seasonal chart
- Western Arrarnta
- Library Collection RecordResearch has shown and Indigenous ranger groups and others have demonstrated that the combined use of Western science and Indigenous ecological knowledge increases engagement of Aboriginal people…Publication Date 2015
- Central Australia
- Indigenous ecological knowledge
- two-way communication
- two-way science education
- Library Collection RecordIn the same way our Australian rangelands are incredibly large and diverse, yet with many specific ecosystems, our communication and change programs need to be wide reaching yet targeting specific…Publication Date 2015
- Australia
- eExtension
- flipped classroom
- learning journey
- social media
- webinar
- Library Collection RecordNo documentary to date attempts to portray the diverse human and natural geography of the rangelands of Australia. At the end of 2013 Alun Hoggett, film maker with Desert Channels Group began…Publication Date 2015
- Australia
- Documentary
- film
- geography
- outback
- Library Collection RecordIndigenous people in remote regions of Australia are recognised as one of the most vulnerable groups to climate change (Green and Minchin, 2014). This is despite living in widely dispersed…Publication Date 2015
- Australia
- disadvantage
- remote resilience
- remote vulnerability
- transformation
- Library Collection RecordChange has always been a central feature of life in central Australia. For millennia Aboriginal people had to deal with a variable climate in which great fluctuations in rainfall and temperature…Publication Date 2015
- adaptive capacity
- Central Australia
- Central Australia
- liveability
- Library Collection RecordThe threat posed by climate change to cultural heritage and archaeological sites began to ring alarm bells for heritage practitioners over two decades ago. Only very recently, however, has work…Publication Date 2015
- adaptation
- Australia
- cultural heritage
- framework
- ranger group
- Library Collection RecordClimate models indicate that Australia is likely to get hotter, with some data projecting a temperature rise in the range of 3 to 7â—¦C by 2100. Local adaptation responses will be required to…Publication Date 2015
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordThe Australian continent’s rangelands have small populations scattered over huge areas and are characterised by extreme temporal variability and threatening eco-climatic processes and changes …Publication Date 2015
- Australia
- Queensland
- Library Collection RecordThis article presents a range of potential adaptations and innovations and aims at informing about the future transport systems in the rangelands according to different factors of demographic,…Publication Date 2015
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordThe literature is replete with examples of communities which have suffered significant impacts from nearby mine operations and their subsequent closure. Increasingly, there is awareness amongst the…Publication Date 2015
- Australia
- enduring value
- mine closure
- mine lifecycle
- social responsibility
- Library Collection RecordThe Pilbara Mesquite Management Committee (PMMC) was one of the first community groups in the WA rangelands to focus on partnering with local land managers in developing local solutions to one of…Publication Date 2015
- Australia
- natural resource management
- partnerships
- rangelands
- weed management
- 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 RecordWhile most of Australia’s aridlands have suffered either total loss or serious declines of native fauna, the Martu lands in WA’s Western Desert in the eastern Pilbara provide one of the last…Publication Date 2015
- Australia
- Country
- culture
- Martu
- partnership
- threatened
- 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 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 RecordMTP Contracting is an Indigenous business operating out of Corella Creek Community in the Barkly Tablelands, NT. Established originally as a contract mustering business, MTP has expanded into NRM…Publication Date 2015
- Australia
- Barkly
- fee-for-service
- indigenous
- innovation
- NRM
- Weeds
- Library Collection RecordIn the many discussions over the last forty years about the significance of Australia-wide Aboriginal fire practices, one concept that has become common is the importance of ‘mosaic burning’ for…Publication Date 2015
- Australia
- Channel Country
- fire management
- mosaic burning
- settlement
- spinifex
- Library Collection RecordWe report on a collaborative project about climate change and adaptation. The project’s overall goal was to find good ways to build desert Aboriginal people’s understanding of climate change and…Publication Date 2015
- Aboriginal ranger
- Australia
- climate change
- climate science
- erosion control
- indigenous people
- Library Collection RecordThe feral camel is an established pest animal in Australia. The species occurs across an area of about 3.3 million km2 encompassing parts of Queensland (Qld), South Australia (SA), the Northern…Publication Date 2015
- Australia
- feral herbivore
- landscape scale
- partnerships
- Library Collection RecordIn ‘The Bush’ Don Watson captures the nub of the rangelands dilemma. “Only about 15% of Australians now live outside the cities and the essentially suburban coastal corridor...Those coastal…Publication Date 2015
- Australia
- disruptive change
- governance
- national interest
- policy failure
- rangeland futures
- Library Collection RecordInvaded landscapes must be managed to ensure they remain productive, ecological frameworks have been developed to determine which populations should be managed (Moody and Mack 1988). However, many of…Publication Date 2008
- invasive species
- grazing lands
- Library Collection RecordThis paper describes a modelling approach to quantifying pasture degradation risk using a decision tree model in conjunction with information generated from the AussieGRASS Environmental Calculator.…Publication Date 2008
- Model Development
- pasture degradation
- Library Collection RecordDuring the 1990s the Commonwealth worked cooperatively with State and Territory governments, traditional owners, industry, the farming community and conservation groups towards a national rangeland…Publication Date 2008
- biophysical
- rangeland strategy
- Socio-economic
- 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 RecordCyanobacteria-dominated soil crusts are a significant component of Australian arid and semi-arid landscapes. Morphogenetic adaptation has enabled cyanobacteria to respond to both short- and long-term…Publication Date 2008
- biological soil crusts
- cyanobacterial soil crusts
- soil nutrients
- Library Collection RecordThe Queensland Murray Darling Committee (QMDC) is working with the community in the Maranoa Balonne and Border Rivers catchments to encourage and support sustainable use of natural resources. A…Publication Date 2008
- Murray Darling Basin
- Queensland
- 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 RecordThe conservation of Australia’s northern rangelands is important research. Grazing animal distribution and utilisation are valuable measures of how well rangelands are managed. However, the…Publication Date 2008
- Arid climate
- Iseilema
- Astrebla
- animal distribution
- Australia's Northern Rangelands
- Library Collection RecordFORAGE is a web-based facility which provides information relating to climate and pasture condition at user-specified locations. The system receives requests from web pages, processes those…Publication Date 2008
- climate
- environmental management
- land condition
- pasture growth
- Library Collection RecordUneven use of the landscape by grazing herbivores leads to some areas being over utilised whilst others are under utilised (Andrew 1988). Understanding the scale and impact of preferential selection…Publication Date 2008
- sustainable land management
- resource section functions
- Library Collection RecordThis paper describes the impact of national and state level natural resource management (NRM) policies on private native forest activities and agro-forestry opportunities in Central Queensland. These…Publication Date 2008
- forest management
- biophysical attributes
- vegetation management control
- Library Collection RecordPasture utilisation is a term used to describe the estimation of animal intake of pasture dry matter expressed as a proportion of either pasture growth per season or nominated period. The calculation…Publication Date 2008
- pastures
- feed intake
- GRASP
- grazing trial
- pasture utilisation
- QuikIntake
- Library Collection RecordDespite the global importance of tropical C4 vegetation, we understand little about how it will contribute to the biosphere’s response to rising atmospheric CO2 (Nowak et al. 2004; Ainsworth and…Publication Date 2008
- carbon fixation
- FACE
- Library Collection RecordWith climate change firmly on the global agenda, carbon trading is emerging as a growth industry. In Australia the rangelands has been identified as one of the country’s largest carbon sinks.…Publication Date 2008
- climate change
- carrying capacity
- Carbon Sink
- Cheela Plain
- Library Collection RecordResource managers require a range of financial and ecological information to evaluate rangeland pastoral systems, given the competitive pressures for improving productivity and environmental…Publication Date 2008
- hydrology
- Central Queensland
- ecological stability
- rangeland pastoral systems
- Library Collection Record‘Change’ is a continuing theme from previous rangelands conferences: e.g. it was a key element at Renmark in 2006 (Foran 2006). So in today’s world where climate change is accepted (if not…Publication Date 2008
- ACRIS
- climate variability
- social demographics
- Library Collection RecordManaging the rangeland ecosystems services (ES) for all Australians is becoming increasingly important as some regions experience a decline in primary productivity, aging rural communities and…Publication Date 2008
- climate change
- Stony Plains Bioregion
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