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- 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 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 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 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 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 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 RecordSoil and water conservation is the keystone to sustainable livestock grazing and maintenance of native species on our western rangelands. Good rangeland management requires the ability to assess…Publication Date 2010
- 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 RecordThe stability and resilience of grazing land in “A†condition was demonstrated in a central Queensland grazing trial where landscape stability was potentially compromised when short term grazing…Publication Date 2008
- Bothriochloa ewartiana
- Central Queensland
- Chrysopogon fallax
- Heteropogon contortus
- Library Collection RecordGrazing management has conventionally involved continuous or rotational systems. These may result in strong grazing gradients from watering points and accentuation of problems relating to selective…Publication Date 2008
- grazing management
- pastoral society
- Library Collection RecordThe substantial range declines of the greater bilby (Macrotis lagotis) and the burrowing bettong (Bettongia lesueur) are thought to have had dramatic effects on ecosystem processes in the Australian…Publication Date 2008
- Bettonga Lesueur
- Macrotis lagotis
- Oryctolagus cuniculus
- Varanus gouldii
- Library Collection RecordWhilst the importance of good soil condition in grazed systems has long been recognised, grazing management in tropical savannas has historically focussed on the maintenance of perennial grasses and…Publication Date 2008
- perennials
- soil macroinvertebrates
- Library Collection RecordLocal government in the Anmatjere (Ti Tree) region, 200km north of Alice Springs, identified high Aboriginal unemployment as a core issue for sustainable regional development. Unemployment (as…Publication Date 2008
- institutions
- Aboriginal People
- Alice Springs
- Anmatjere region
- Library Collection RecordMonitoring plant population dynamics efficiently is achieved by repeated sampling at fixed points (Philleps et al. 1998). Often accompanying such data are a plethora of pictorial data that are often…Publication Date 2008
- nomenclature
- Library Collection RecordThere is a correlation between poor land condition and high amounts of runoff from grazing lands. The primary sources of sediment exported from grazing lands are hillslope, gully and riverbank…Publication Date 2008
- erosion
- Library Collection RecordThe Lyndon and Upper Gascoyne Land Conservation District Committees (LCDC) are some of the most active, innovative and longstanding committees of their type in the Western Australian southern…Publication Date 2008
- biodiversity conservation
- Management Plan
- Library Collection RecordFertility of the soil supporting degraded native grassland at Trangie Agricultural Research Centre was either enhanced by addition of fertiliser, reduced by application of sugar, or left untreated.…Publication Date 2008
- degradation
- fertilizers
- Austrodanthonia caespitosa
- Enteropogon acicularis
- Library Collection RecordPaying landholders to produce ecosystem services—including water quality improvements, nature conservation and restoration, landscape management and carbon sequestration—is not a new concept. A…Publication Date 2008
- market-based instruments
- tropical savannas
- Library Collection RecordThis paper explores the relationships between graziers’ goals, perceived impediments to biodiversity conservation and suitable incentives to facilitate the adoption of conservation practices in the…Publication Date 2008
- biodiversity
- grazing management
- Library Collection RecordNormalised Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) satellite data derived from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) sensor were used to generate time-series data for discrete…Publication Date 2008
- Rainfall patterns
- satellite data
- vegetation flush
- Library Collection RecordAn average 5 million hectares is burnt annually in Queensland’s Cape York Peninsula (CYP) region, which totals approximately 13.5 million hectares. Fire scars in CYP have been mapped using…Publication Date 2008
- timing
- topography
- biodiversity
- adhesives
- extent
- Queensland's Cape York Peninsula region
- Library Collection RecordManagement of Merino ewes to maintain targeted ewe body weight and condition score during pregnancy improves lamb survival, ewe wool staple strength and results in finer wool from progeny (Thompson…Publication Date 2008
- Library Collection RecordIn the 1980’s CSIRO and QDPI established a number of pasture legume evaluation trials throughout clay soil regions in Queensland’s semiarid tropical rangelands. These sites have long since been…Publication Date 2008
- rangelands
- Desmanthus
- Cahrters Towers
- Library Collection RecordIncreaser species are useful indicators of rangeland condition. In the Gawler Ranges District of the South Australian Pastoral Zone, Maireana pyramidata (blackbush) is commonly considered an…Publication Date 2008
- grazing
- belt transects
- chenopod species
- rangeland condition
- Library Collection RecordBuffel grass (Cenchrus ciliaris) is a contentious species, being valued in many regions of the Australian rangelands for its contribution to livestock production, while also being widely regarded as…Publication Date 2008
- Cenchrus ciliaris
- livestock production
- biodiversity
- Library Collection RecordIn 2007, the Biodiversity Working Group of the Australian Collaborative Rangelands Information System nominated buffel grass (Cenchrus ciliaris) as a transformer weed of Australian rangelands with…Publication Date 2008
- Cenchrus ciliaris
- risk
- Library Collection RecordArid Australia covers more than 70 percent of the Australian continent. As this vast region harbours more than half of Australia’s endangered fauna and one third of its mammals are already extinct…Publication Date 2008
- biodiversity conservation
- D. cristicauda
- Dasycercus blythi
- Simpson Desert
- Triodia basedowii
- Library Collection RecordThe Western Catchment Management Authority (WCMA) is the statutory body that engages the regional community in natural resource management. It is also the primary vehicle for the delivery of…Publication Date 2008
- grazing pressure
- restoration
- Library Collection RecordThe health of rangeland biodiversity is an important component of reporting on rangeland condition and ecologically sustainable management. However, there is only limited capability to report trends…Publication Date 2008
- sustainable management
- Library Collection RecordSouthern Gulf Catchments (SGC) contracted Dr. Leasie Felderhof of Firescape Science to develop a detailed proposal for addressing fire management issues in the Greater Mount Isa (GMI) region. Decades…Publication Date 2008
- fire ecology
- Southern Gulf Catchments
- Library Collection RecordNative animals have many important roles in ecosystems, and all organisms that modify, maintain, create or destroy the abiotic environment have been termed ‘ecosystem engineers’ (Jones et al.…Publication Date 2008
- abiotic environment
- Library Collection RecordThis paper examines the reasons why knowledge about the rangelands is transferred so slowly and imperfectly between landholders, scientists, the policy community and politicians. There are two limbs…Publication Date 2008
- Library Collection RecordThe management of invasive or thickening woody species on western NSW rangelands has a chequered history. The issue was clearly recognised in the early years of pastoral settlement, but during the…Publication Date 2008
- biodiversity
- Library Collection RecordThe diet selected and liveweight (LW) change of 4 drafts, each comprised of 3 age groups of Bos indicus cross steers grazing a native pasture paddock over 4 years in the southern speargrass pasture…Publication Date 2008
- Bos indicus
- native species
- grazing productivity
- Library Collection RecordLandscape Function Analysis (LFA) is a rigorously developed method that can be used to assess and monitor how a hill slope is functioning as a biogeochemical system and the extent to which it is self…Publication Date 2008
- biogeochemical cycle
- software
- 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 RecordLandscape leakiness describes the extent to which landscapes have lost their capacity to regulate rainwater and soil nutrients. We demonstrate a remote sensing-based index for monitoring changes in…Publication Date 2008
- native species
- perennials
- 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 RecordMesquite is one of 20 Weeds of National Significance in Australia, identified for its invasiveness, impacts on the environment, high potential for spread across a wide landscape and the socioeconomic…Publication Date 2008
- management
- Library Collection RecordThe Gulf Fire Project was a concept put together by the lower Gulf of Carpentaria Traditional Owners (TOs) along with Southern Gulf Catchments, Rural Fire Service, the North Australian Indigenous…Publication Date 2008
- crops
- controlled burning
- north-west Queensland
- southern Gulf of Carpentaria
- Library Collection RecordIn the past fifteen years, the Desert Uplands Committee, as a strong, progressive grass roots group, has initiated and implemented innovative on-ground projects, region-specific research and many,…Publication Date 2008
- Central Queensland
- innovative
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