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- Library Collection RecordUnlike Australia’s temperate ecosystems, the tropical savanna landscapes are in relatively unmodified condition (Woinarski et al., 2007). Disturbances such as fire, logging/thinning, cycles of…Publication Date 2008
- landscape heterogeneity
- temporal changes
- Library Collection RecordThe nutritive value of pastoral plant species is currently under investigation in the Outback Lakes region of South Australia to enable pastoralists to gain a better understanding of best practice…Publication Date 2008
- sustainability
- arid lands
- Outback Lakes Region
- Library Collection RecordAs part of the Neighbourhood Catchment Incentive Scheme (NCIS), the Fitzroy Basin Association (FBA) has funded the purchase of property mapping and/or planning software, GPS units, and imagery for…Publication Date 2008
- Library Collection RecordRangeland administrators, regional NRM bodies and pastoral managers need monitoring systems to meet a range of organisational objectives. Resource monitoring is an important component of land…Publication Date 2008
- Library Collection RecordGrassy savannas in northern Australia have been reported to be becoming increasingly shrubby, probably as a result of altered grass/fire dynamics following herbivore activity associated with…Publication Date 2008
- Excoecaria parvifolia
- Gardenia vilhelmii
- Library Collection RecordThe Research to Reality Project (R2R) was developed to assist producers to develop practical responses to a range of production and natural resource challenges. Located in the Burdekin catchment of…Publication Date 2008
- Burdekin Catchment
- north Queensland
- Library Collection RecordSoil erosion in the rangelands in Central West and Western New South Wales has been associated with shrub encroachment due to shrubs out-competing herbage and reducing live understorey plant cover.…Publication Date 2008
- Central West and Western NSW
- erosion risk map
- Library Collection Record‘We’re prepared to work long hours in business, as long as we can be on our land’ (Participant A13). ‘Success means having my family support and my cultural pride’ (Participant A28).  …Publication Date 2008
- Aboriginal communities
- Library Collection RecordAchieving successful NRM in Outback Australia depends upon effective social engagement processes which are adapted to suit remote regions. In line with the notion of ‘desert syndrome’ remote…Publication Date 2008
- community engagement
- remote areas
- Library Collection RecordClimate change has been identified as a major issue for Australia’s rangelands. The Garnaut Interim Climate Change Review highlighted the risk that Australia, with an ‘already hot, dry and…Publication Date 2008
- climate change
- animal nutrition
- pasture growth
- Library Collection RecordLandholders in rangeland areas need to consider the potential impacts of grazing management on the ecosystem in which they operate, to ensure that they maintain the ecological requirements for the…Publication Date 2008
- sustainable land management
- Central Western Queensland
- Library Collection RecordUnderstanding the relationship between fire and the Mitchell grasslands has been overlooked in the past due to a view that “the Mitchell grasslands are too valuable as a pasture to be burnt†(…Publication Date 2008
- wildfires
- Aristida latifolia
- cattle production
- Library Collection RecordThe Gregory River, the largest perennial river and one of several spring-fed streams in the southern Gulf catchment area, is recognised by the region’s natural resource management body, Southern…Publication Date 2008
- mitigation
- perennial river
- Library Collection RecordPasture degradation and declining land condition (esp. from overgrazing), is a significant and long-recognised problem across the northern rangelands. Wet season spelling, when systematically applied…Publication Date 2008
- Library Collection RecordBeef production is the most widespread land use in subtropical rangelands. Producers in these and other rangelands face many challenges to maintain profitability (e.g. declining terms of trade,…Publication Date 2008
- erosion
- biodiversity
- Burnett Region
- herd economic model
- south-eastern Queensland
- Library Collection RecordIn 2006 the Desert Uplands Committee piloted a market-based incentive project to establish wildlife habitat linkage across the southern part of the Desert Uplands biogeographic region. Landholders…Publication Date 2008
- CSIRO
- Desert Uplands biographic region
- Environmental Protection Agency
- Library Collection RecordEverybody understands that pastures have to be rested, but ask a collection of people what “pasture rest†is and surprisingly there is no consensus. However, it is those who prefer to use the…Publication Date 2008
- carbon management
- recovery
- Library Collection RecordIntensification of the grazing industry associated with factors such as wider global market forces, changes to domestic policy, rural re-structuring and technology change have changed the social,…Publication Date 2008
- sustainability
- Library Collection RecordWe investigated the use of several current measures of landscape health (Landscape Function Analysis, structure/composition/function (SCF)) as surrogates or indicators of arthropod biodiversity in…Publication Date 2008
- biodiversity
- Eucalyptus populnea
- Library Collection RecordWe studied soil disturbance by rabbits, echidnas, goannas, ants and termites at three spatial scales across four vegetation communities (dense woodland, open woodland, shrubland, grassland) in a semi…Publication Date 2008
- landscape scale
- microscale
- Western NSW
- Library Collection RecordThe demise of the wool reserve price scheme in 1991/2, fluctuations in relative commodity prices and drought have placed pastoral producers under increasing pressure to adjust sheep enterprises in…Publication Date 2008
- farm models
- Damara
- dorper
- Merino
- Library Collection RecordThe principles of governance are being re-considered and influence the way agriculture and natural resources are governed in Australia (Kelly 2005; Keogh, Chant & Frazer 2006). Collaboration with…Publication Date 2008
- Library Collection RecordHudson pear (Cylindropuntia rosea) is a branched cactus that grows to a height of about 1.5 metres and produces cylindrical, rope-like segments growing from a cylindrical trunk (Holtkamp 2006). The…Publication Date 2008
- Cylindropuntia rosea
- Cylindropuntia tunicata
- Library Collection RecordLand condition monitoring information supports the strategic management of grazing land and better understanding of ecosystem processes. Yet for policy makers and those land managers whose properties…Publication Date 2008
- geospatial land monitoring
- Queensland's Great Barrier Reef
- Library Collection RecordAn understanding of the livestock systems and grasslands in Inner Mongolia is essential in order to identify a solution to the enormous issues these people face. These issues include the degradation…Publication Date 2008
- degradation
- inner Mongolia
- livestock systems
- 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 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 RecordAt the CSIRO Division of Land Resources Management, Deniliquin, a project to identify the impact of economic, administrative, and social influences on rangeland management has begun. This paper…Publication Date 2014
- Australia
- New South Wales
- 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
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