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- Library Collection RecordGiant Parramatta Grass (GPM) is a serious grass weed of coastal Eastern Australia. Its ability to invade pastures is due, at least in part, to its ability to produce large quantities of seed…Publication Date 1992
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordPercentage cover of herbaceous plant species, soil and environmental data were collected at 205 sites in the Olary Ranges in the North -East pastoral district of South Australia. Of 337 species…Publication Date 1992
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordAbstract not availablePublication Date 1992
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordThe discussions of our conference in which we are about to engage, coming shortly after the release of the draft National Strategy for Rangeland Management, represent the first national gathering of…Publication Date 1996
- rangelands
- management
- stakeholders
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordThis paper describes the process of developing a national strategy for the management of Australian rangelands. A draft vision and views of stakeholders are shared and next steps for future…Publication Date 1996
- rangelands
- management
- strategies
- stakeholders
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordIndigenous rights need to be acknowledged for traditional cultures to survive. The uniqueness of Australia's indigenous cultures is threatened by a number of factors. A key element to…Publication Date 1996
- rangelands
- Indigenous knowledge
- land management
- projects
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordThe need to improve the conservation status of Australian agricultural and pastoral land is one of the most compelling challenges for Australia in the 1990s. It is time to start managing this country…Publication Date 1996
- rangelands
- ecosystems
- management
- conservation (storage)
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordContinuing the balance between conservation and development is our goal for the friture. Development is integral and fundamental to our future. The minerals industry should embrace the concept of…Publication Date 1996
- stakeholders
- production
- mining
- water
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordThe property will have a secure lease or ownership and its owners will have implemented a long-term property management plan. They will ensure that their animals and environment are well presented…Publication Date 1996
- rangelands
- Property
- Living conditions
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordThe Australian rangelands are changing rapidly under the influence of social, economic, political and environmental forces. The prevailing political climate favours markets as a means of achieving…
- Sustainable development
- economics
- resources
- conservation (storage)
- Australia
- 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 RecordWithin the rangelands the resources for human development are limited.Our vision for the future must take into consideration the actualities of the situations for aboriginal people including…Publication Date 1996
- rangelands
- resources
- Needs
- Aboriginal People
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordThings are crook in the bush! The weather fluctuates, but indexed commodity prices and social stability continue to decline. I want to suggest a way by which we could take greater control of our…Publication Date 1996
- information technology
- networks
- communication
- rural areas
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordAustralia's rangelands are experiencing a radical re- evaluation of natural resources, with declining commodity values and enhanced amenity values. Pastoral dominance is being displaced by…Publication Date 1996
- rangelands
- Regional development
- natural resources
- strategies
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordWe outline the results of recent work aimed at determining the impact of grazing on biodiversity of the arid and semi-arid rangelands. We examined changes in the abundance and species composition of…Publication Date 1996
- biodiversity
- grazing
- water
- biodiversity
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordSites were established on three grazing properties on the northern tablelands of NSW to determine the comparative effects of cell and continuous grazing on the botanical composition of pastures.…Publication Date 1996
- botanical composition
- Australia
- cell grazing
- continuous grazing systems
- Library Collection RecordA recent national project collaborated with pastoralists and extension personnel around Australia to examine the financial implications of different approaches to coping with drought. This process…Publication Date 1996
- stocking rate
- projects
- management
- drought
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordThis paper examines the historical evidence for the widely held view that vegetation communities in the semi-arid woodlands were significantly more open prior to European settlement. It is postulated…Publication Date 1996
- vegetation
- shrubs
- woodlands
- Regulations
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordIn Australia, as in other developed countries, rural industries are responding to increasing pressure to demonstrate their environmental credentials. At the same time, there is an increasing trend…Publication Date 1996
- land use
- management
- frameworks
- sustainability
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordUluru has been the site of intense tourist activity since the early 1960s, much of which was uncontrolled in the early years. The result was the development of a number of access tracks and partly…Publication Date 1996
- tourism
- models
- management
- hydrology
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordThe objective was to establish whether reliable intake and digestibility estimates could be obtained under range conditions using n-alkanes. Goats both browse and graze, which makes the use of n-…Publication Date 1996
- rangelands
- digestibility
- grazing
- alkanes
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordWe quantified the effect of high levels of wiregrass in buffel grass pasture on sheep growth over 2 years at Roma. Despite using very high stocking rates compared to district norms, animal…Publication Date 1996
- pastures
- sheep
- grasses
- stocking rate
- Australia
- Wiregrass
- Library Collection RecordRelationships between the cover of grasses and of woody vegetation were determined in 1991 on four landforms in the Louth region of semi-arid eastern Australia and werefound to differ between…Publication Date 1996
- vegetation
- woody plants
- Weeds
- burning
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordThe Remote Video Unit (RVU) is a self -contained, stand -alone unit designed to provide information on the interaction and behaviour patterns of sheep, cattle, feral goats and kangaroos using water…Publication Date 1996
- traps
- animals
- movement
- Gates
- Australia
- video
- Library Collection RecordThe persistence of desirable species in a pasture is essential for sustainability and animal production. Therefore, it is necessary to document how grazing and land type (land class) influence the…Publication Date 1996
- stocking rate
- Pressure
- grazing
- Land levelling
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordMany graziers could make better use of climatic information. The Queensland Department of Natural Resources and Department of Primary Industries are collaborating with the Bureau of Meteorology to…Publication Date 1996
- Management information systems
- climate data
- tools
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordAustralia's bush food industry is currently worth ,85 million at the farm gate. Two rangeland plants, the desert lime (Eremocitrus glauca) and wild thyme (Ocimum tenuiflorum) have potential…Publication Date 1996
- plants
- species
- Food industry
- Australia
- Bush
- Library Collection RecordEarly measurements of cattle growth rates on native pasture in the black speargrass region indicated only modest potential for beef production (80 to 100 kg LWG/head/yr). To provide a contemporary…Publication Date 1996
- cattle
- animal production
- liveweight
- paddocks
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordPOPMIX is a computer-based stocking-rate calculator that estimates carrying capacities of rangeland stocked with one or more types of large herbivore. Based on forage availability, prediction of…Publication Date 1996
- rangelands
- stocking rate
- rangelands
- Australia
- calculator
- Library Collection RecordWe show how the magnitude of vegetation response to major rainfalls can be determined from satellite data and be used to produce scaled paddock maps of landscape resilience. These maps assist in…Publication Date 1996
- satellites
- mapping
- rainfall
- land management
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordOne aspect of monitoring grazing systems is the condition of the natural resource. Photos show broad changes such as the reduction of rubber vine (Cryptostegia grandiflorum) byfire. Estimates of…Publication Date 1996
- natural resources
- grazing management
- monitoring
- photography
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordThere is significant potential for the development of a kangaroo harvesting enterprise which is integrated with livestock production. It offers opportunity for diversification of income as well as…Publication Date 1996
- kangaroos
- livestock production
- management
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordAbstract not Available.Publication Date 1996
- rangelands
- Australia
- biodiversity
- invasive species
- Nature conservation
- Library Collection RecordThe track record of technology transfer within a rangelands R&D context is poor - even with new participatory approaches. The reasons for this relate to the nature of R&D problems, technology…Publication Date 1996
- management
- tracks
- technology
- Australia
- problem analysis
- Library Collection RecordAbstract not Available.Publication Date 1996
- Australia
- Claypan Revegetation
- rangeland soils
- trials
- Library Collection RecordSince 1983 the staff of the Land Use Study Centre have offered nation -wide homestudies, first in Soil Conservation, then in Effective Rural Groups and Fire Management, and more recently in Practical…Publication Date 1996
- programmes
- rangelands
- Australia
- Courses
- Library Collection RecordThe history of the Australian Arid Lands Botanic Garden at Port Augusta West is detailed. The garden is on a 300 ha site and will feature vegetation of arid Australia. Management of the project is…Publication Date 1996
- arid zones
- vegetation
- projects
- flora
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordQuantification of historical vegetation changes would provide valuable information for prediction of responses to ongoing factors that influence rangelands. A study is proposed to elucidate the…Publication Date 1996
- rangelands
- vegetation
- Factors
- Australia
- changes
- Library Collection RecordIn 1995 a project funded by the Australian Mining Industry Research Association was commenced to research the germination and establishment requirements of Triodia and Plectrachne hummock grass…Publication Date 1996
- projects
- mining
- germination
- seed
- 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 RecordThe annual chenopod Salsola kali is a common species in degraded floodplain country of the Pilbara, WA. It is considered a weed. It is not native and has little value for grazing animals. In parts of…Publication Date 1996
- Tropical zones
- Weeds
- rehabilitation
- Useful plants
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordFollowing discrete rainfall events, soil-water measurements showed that for each of the rainfall events, pronounced redistribution of rainfall from runoff (source) into runon (sink) zones occurred,…Publication Date 1996
- rainfall
- hydrology
- measurement
- water
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordSheep, rabbits and/or kangaroos could each be the cause of the hiatus in recruitment this century of western myall (Acacia papyrocarpa Benth.), a long-lived Australian arid-zone perennial tree which…Publication Date 1996
- experiments
- animals
- arid zones
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordThe impact of stocking rate (ranging from below - to above - commercial rates) on species density was assessed at sites near Charters Towers and Mundubbera. At both locations there was a 25-30%…Publication Date 1996
- stocking rate
- species
- density
- Scales
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordLarge dust storms are capable of carrying enormous dust loads. The dust storm on 1st November 1994 transported at least 15 Mt of dust from the Queensland Channel Country northward over Mt Isa and out…Publication Date 1996
- Sediment
- losses from soil
- land
- Australia
- Dust Storms
- Library Collection RecordThe T.G.B. Osborn Vegetation Reserve at Koonamore now has 70 years of records of vegetation change on its permanent quadrats and photopoints. On one of these a stand of mulga (Acacia aneura) has…Publication Date 1996
- Mulga
- regeneration
- projects
- Australia
- Rabbit Control
- Library Collection RecordTreatment with gibberellic acid induces more germination in a number of Pilbara grass species than does stratification. Eriachne flaccida is the most suitable perennial grass for rehabilitation…Publication Date 1996
- gibberellic acid
- germination
- grasses
- species
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordAbstract not Available.Publication Date 2000
- pastoralism
- ecology
- 21th Century
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordAbstract not available.Publication Date 2000
- rabbits
- vegetation
- regeneration
- Myxoma virus
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordAbstract not available.Publication Date 2000
- pastoralism
- Europe
- land
- history
- Australia