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- Library Collection RecordGlobally, ecosystems provide services of almost twice the value of global gross national product (Costanza et al., 2006). The Buffalo City Municipality (BCM), South Africa contains biodiversity of…Publication Date 2011
- biodiversity conservation
- South Africa
- Buffalo City
- ecosystem services
- biodiversity
- conservation
- mapping
- degradation
- GIS
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordFeral goats are a recognised threat to biodiversity and their management in the rangelands is difficult. Using the dependence of feral goats for regular water, we investigated the effectiveness of…Publication Date 2010
- feral goat
- pest animal management
- water access
- Library Collection RecordHave you ever sat and watched what cattle eat in about half an hour? Have you counted the number of species of plants they prefer to eat? To be productive, cattle should have a variety of…Publication Date 2010
- rehabilitation
- costs
- Ponding
- Library Collection RecordThis paper introduces Walgett’s Dharriwaa Elders Group and its role to provide advocacy and representation for Walgett Aboriginal elders in Aboriginal cultural management and community development…Publication Date 2010
- management
- aboriginal culture
- caring for country
- Library Collection RecordThere are many factors that affect rangeland productivity and how it is channelled through “natural†and livestock components of food webs. There are pastoral programmes that address many of…Publication Date 2010
- Geomorphology
- hierarchy
- soil moisture balance
- Library Collection RecordThis paper examines the seasonal climate patterns resulting in three large and apparently rare episodic recruitments of Astreblaspp. in Queensland. Each of these recruitments occurredfollowing a 3-…Publication Date 2010
- Astrebla spp.
- El Nino Southern Oscillation
- episodic recruitment
- Queensland
- Library Collection RecordWe evaluated shoot and root biomass yields of four native grasses of NSW and an introduce species in order to establish if differences in shoot- and root-biomass yields as well as root:shoot ratios…Publication Date 2010
- C3 vs C4 grasses
- photoassimilated carbon
- root:shoot ratios
- species differences
- Library Collection RecordRainfall variability is a major challenge to sustainable management on rangelands. We present data from a grazing trial in north Queensland on the relative performance of moderate (MSR), heavy (HSR…Publication Date 2010
- stocking rate
- pasture density
- rainfall variability
- Library Collection RecordIn the late nineteenth century the Pera Bore, not far from Bourke, became the site of a unique experiment farm. No other government experiment farm was located so far from a capital city or…Publication Date 2010
- artesian water
- experiment farms
- history of science
- Library Collection RecordA significant quantity of native vegetation and biodiversity exists on privately managed rangeland properties. However, landholders do not always conserve these resources at a level that society…Publication Date 2010
- conservation
- private costs
- trade-offs
- Western NSW
- Library Collection RecordWaterspreading is a land rehabilitation technique that targets the variability of rainfall and runoff in semi-arid systems to initiate long term changes in ground cover. This study outlines the…Publication Date 2010
- Environmental
- Invasive native scrub
- Waterspreading
- Western NSW
- Library Collection RecordFreshwater is a vital resource in Australia, and its availability is highly variable in semi-arid and arid. Rapidly expanding water resource development in the Murray Darling Basin (MDB) has impacted…Publication Date 2010
- remote sensing
- wetlands
- Murray Darling Basin
- Paroo
- Library Collection RecordFeral goats are a significant contributor to total grazing pressurein the Cobar district.The aim of this paper is to compare two methods of managing feral goatsused on a Cobar district property, ‘…Publication Date 2010
- Feral Goats
- grazing pressure
- harvesting operation
- Library Collection RecordThe conservation status of wildlife on private grazing land is contentious. For macropods this ranges from ubiquitous pest species (e.g. kangaroos) to critically endangered for many of the smaller…Publication Date 2010
- Bridled Nailtail Wallaby
- conservation
- private grazing land
- Library Collection RecordWhat is new to our management is active landscape restoration, which we have commenced by participating in the Ecosystem Management Understanding (EMU) ProjectTMthrough the Neales River Catchment…Publication Date 2010
- rehydration
- Neales River
- partnerships
- practicalities
- Library Collection RecordIncreasing carbon stocks is dependent upon better management of carbon flows in and slowing flows out. This relies on three strategies: 1) Focusing on the point in time when the bulk of carbon…Publication Date 2010
- carbon flows
- resilience
- strategic pasture rest
- Library Collection RecordThough shrub-encroached landscapes are viewed by some as ‘ecological deserts’, we know little of the biodiversity that they support. We investigated the shrub-resident arthropods in a turpentine…Publication Date 2010
- arthropods
- eastern Australia
- resources
- shrub
- Library Collection RecordThe IndigenousLand Corporation (ILC) is an independent Australian Government statutory authority, established to provide social, cultural, economic and environmental benefits to Indigenous people by…Publication Date 2010
- land management
- economic development
- Brewarrina region
- Library Collection RecordTransition from an open wooded grassland state to a shrubby woodland state, and the reverse, is driven by the agents of prolonged rainfall events, drought, fire and grazing. We altered the grazing…Publication Date 2010
- drought
- grasses
- shrubs
- plant density
- Murray Darling Basin
- Library Collection RecordThe survival of perennial grass plants in drought is of scientific and applied interest; scientists want to know why species differ in ability to cope with individual and combined stresses of drought…Publication Date 2010
- Australia
- New South Wales
- Plant Death
- semi-arid grasslands
- tillers
- Library Collection RecordThe Great Artesian Basin (GAB) is one of Australia’s most significant national assets and it underlies 22 per cent of Australia. Much of the GAB underlies the rangelands of NSW, Queensland, South…Publication Date 2010
- bores
- Great Artesian Basin
- sustainability
- Library Collection RecordThe “Guidelines for determining lease land condition†(the Guidelines) were developed by the Queensland Department of Environment and Resource Management (DERM) to support implementation of the…Publication Date 2010
- assessment
- Condition
- Queensland
- Library Collection RecordThe Western Catchment Management Authority (CMA) works with local people to improve the management of natural resources. In line with the government’s ‘Caring for Our Country’ priorities we…Publication Date 2010
- sustainable land management
- aboriginal knowledge systems
- aboriginal language groups
- Australia
- New South Wales
- Library Collection RecordRainfall use efficiency (RUE) is suggested as a measure of the productive use of the weather and measures the amount of rainfall that is converted into agricultural products. Rainfall use efficiency…Publication Date 2010
- rainfall
- uses
- efficiency
- Library Collection RecordSub-daily rainfall intensity has a significant impact on runoff and erosion rates in northern Australian rangelands. It is therefore important to accurately represent sub-daily rainfall intensity…Publication Date 2010
- runoff
- climate change
- rainfall intensity
- Library Collection RecordThis project is a Caring for Our Country initiative between the Australian and New South Wales Governments which aims to increase the involvement of private and other public landholders in the…Publication Date 2010
- protected areas
- conservation
- Western NSW
- Library Collection RecordHuman impacts have dramatically altered the structure and composition of many communities often resulting in new or novel states that are difficult (and potentially impossible) to reverse. New…Publication Date 2010
- grazing
- Great Artesian Basin
- novel ecosystems
- soil seedbank
- south eastern Australia
- Library Collection RecordThe potential exists for land use conflict to arise between coal seam gas mining and traditional agriculture in the Surat Basin in Southern Queensland. Farming and grazing enterprises, businesses and…Publication Date 2010
- agriculture
- coal seam gas
- Great Artesian Basin
- Southern Queensland
- 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 RecordThe ability to modify the distribution of grazing livestock is a common desire among farmers, either to protect sensitive areas or to more closely match stocking rate with carrying capacity. …Publication Date 2010
- environmental protection
- automated animal control
- Library Collection RecordA ground cover index (GCI) derived from Landsat TM data is available for Queensland since 1986. It provides a potentially robust means for reporting change in landscape function to the Australian…Publication Date 2010
- remote sensing
- dysfunction
- Queensland
- regional reporting
- Wambiana grazing trial
- Library Collection RecordTrees scattered throughout paddocks have long been considered keystone structures in agricultural landscapes, however little is known about how they actually influence pasture growth. Assessing…Publication Date 2010
- remote sensing
- green pasture biomass
- NDVI
- Library Collection RecordA significant proportion of the Murray Darling Basin (MDB) is in the semi arid climatic zone with pastoralism a dominant land-use. Snaking through these rangelands are many thousands of kilometres of…Publication Date 2010
- rivers
- Murray Darling Basin
- water reform
- Library Collection RecordInvasive Native Scrub (INS) is a major problem in thepastoral lands of western NSW. The objective of the project was to test the hypothesis that native perennial grasslands do regenerate in areas…Publication Date 2010
- ground cover plants
- Invasive native scrub
- restoration
- 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 RecordIn 2006, the Central West and Western Catchment Management Authorities (CMAs) began a program of research in collaboration with the Department of Environment, Climate Change and Water (DECCW),…Publication Date 2010
- research
- community engagement
- Invasive native scrub
- Library Collection RecordInvasive cacti have been identified by the natural resource management community as a major threat to the biodiversity and primary production values of the rangelands of Australia. A number of…Publication Date 2010
- Cacti
- invasive species
- rangelands
- Library Collection RecordTwo market-based instruments, namely Enterprise Based Conservation, have been operating in western NSW since 2003. These programs provide a cost-effective alternative to the …Publication Date 2010
- community
- conservation
- resilience
- Library Collection RecordEngaging landholders in the Western NSW rangelands in previously believed “green†conservation programs,has been limited in the past. The Western Catchment Management Authority’s High…Publication Date 2010
- conservation
- engaging
- landholders
- Western NSW
- Library Collection RecordInvasive native scrub (INS) has caused major changes to landscapes in the Western Catchment of NSW. To allow for the management of INS under the Native Vegetation Act 2003a simplified assessment…Publication Date 2010
- Demonstration
- Invasive native scrub
- Property Vegetation Plans
- Western NSW
- Library Collection RecordThe National Rangeland NRM Alliance (The Alliance) combines thirteen (13) rangeland NRM organisations and represents 80% of Australia’sland mass. The Alliance aims to improve the delivery of NRM in…Publication Date 2010
- collaboration
- outcomes
- synergy
- 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 RecordData contained in grazing charts are often underutilised. We describe a simple spreadsheet program that uses these data, and a carrying capacity benchmark expressed in terms of DSE days/ha/100 mm of…Publication Date 2010
- grazing chart
- planned grazing
- seasonal risk
- Library Collection RecordThrough our experiences and partnerships at Desert Knowledge CRC we have accumulated a combination of expertise and commitment to tackle the issues facing people in remote Australia, which we are now…Publication Date 2010
- rangelands
- regional economies
- songlines
- 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 RecordTraditionally the presence of large numbers of woody plants in rangelands is thought to reflect declining rangeland health and reduced pastoral productivity. However, an increasing body of evidence…Publication Date 2010
- shrubs
- competition
- facilitation
- Library Collection RecordThe tendency of water to infiltrate (infiltrability) determines the productivity of rangelands. However, how patterns of infiltrability change in response to gradients of disturbance remains largely…Publication Date 2010
- infiltration
- spatial pattern
- Library Collection RecordThis paper has collated information obtained from existing quandong (Santalum acuminatum) growers and literature on factors to consider when establishing a small quandong orchard. The quandong…Publication Date 2010
- Australian native foods
- quandong
- Santalum acuminatum
- Library Collection RecordThe Australian rangelands are inhabited by a variety of vertebrate pest animals including rabbits, foxes, and wild dogs, and feral camels, goats, pigs and cats. These pests cause environmental…Publication Date 2010
- Pests
- management
- Animal
- Library Collection RecordThe Australian rangelands cover around 80% of the continent yet,from a biodiversity perspective, probably constitutes the most understudied part. To further the understanding of these ecosystems and…Publication Date 2010
- biodiversity
- rangelands
- reference sites
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