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- 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 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 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 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 RecordRangeland pastoralism has existed in Australia for almost as long as white settlement. While the basic products have not changed over time, beef, sheep meat and wool, the production processes have…Publication Date 2015
- Australia
- change
- debt.
- financial literacy
- Library Collection RecordAccess to reliable digital communication technology is the norm for most Australians. The exponential growth of smartphone use continues to revolutionise the way in which Australians conduct their…Publication Date 2015
- 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 RecordFailure of traditional research and technology delivery to make a substantial difference to food security in sub-Saharan Africa has led to approaches that take a systems view of innovation.…Publication Date 2015
- collaboration
- dairy
- innovation platform
- institutional change
- Sub-Saharan Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe Rangelands Cluster Project has been working to facilitate the inclusion of climate change science in natural resource management planning across some of the driest and hottest country on earth…Publication Date 2015
- climate change
- research
- adaptation
- Australia
- collaboration
- knowledge broker
- NRM planning
- Library Collection RecordThe National Rangeland NRM Alliance (The Alliance) is a collaboration of 14 rangelands natural resource management bodies operating across 81 per cent of Australia’s landmass. The group works…Publication Date 2015
- investment
- Australia
- collaboration
- policy
- rangeland
- 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 RecordThe mitchell grass pastures of northern New South Wales are economically important to the grazing industry and occur mainly in the 375 mm to 475 mm annual rainfall zone. Expansion of the wheatbelt…Publication Date 2014
- Australia
- cultivation
- Grazing Industry
- Mitchell grass
- Northern New South Wales
- Library Collection RecordThe expansion of cropping into pastoral country of south -west New South Wales is discussed, along with an examination of the types of country involved. Bare fallowing is a practice necessary in…Publication Date 2014
- Australia
- Cropping
- marginal lands
- Southwest New South Wales
- Library Collection RecordThe Problem of Woody Weeds Woody weeds ( "scrub regrowth ") are the main cause of reduced productivity over large areas of western N.S.W. There are many genera and species involved in the…Publication Date 2014
- Australia
- chemical control
- western New South Wales
- woody weeds
- Library Collection RecordThe pre -settlement fire regime had a major influence on vegetation. Pastoral activities significantly modified the fire regime by altering the vegetation, the suppression of wildfires and deliberate…Publication Date 2014
- Australia
- control
- prescribed burns
- western New South Wales
- wildfires
- Library Collection RecordFire occurs infrequently in Australia's most extensive plant community, the mulga lands (see map 3, Moore 1970) . Under present management, the average interval between fires would be in the…Publication Date 2014
- Australia
- controversial
- Eastern Rangelands
- fire
- Mulga Communities
- New South Wales
- Queensland
- 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 RecordSeveral pasture types in central Australia are undergoing important changes. Trees and shrubs are increasing on some alluvial soils. Acacia, Cassia, Eremophila and Eucalyptus species form locally…Publication Date 2014
- Acacia
- Cassia
- Central Australia
- Eremophila
- Eucalyptus
- potential problems
- regeneration
- shrub
- Tree
- Library Collection RecordThe amount and type of labour used on pastoral properties in the north east of South Australia is examined. Two different strategies in the amount of labour employed to handle the same number of…Publication Date 2014
- Australia
- Labour
- Northeast of South Australia
- pastoral properties
- Library Collection RecordAustralian Rangelands users go into the 1980's in trepidation. Firstly they are the victims of a vicious circle that has been with us since "indexation" was brought in. The escalating…Publication Date 2014
- Australia
- co-exist
- indexation
- trepidation
- Library Collection RecordExplorers records of inland Australia indicate that much of today's pastoral zone was subject to wind and water erosion before the lend was subjected to domestic stock. Australia's…Publication Date 2014
- arid land degradation
- Australia
- erosion
- pastoral regions
- 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