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- Library Collection RecordClimate models indicate that Australia is likely to get hotter, with some data projecting a temperature rise in the range of 3 to 7â—¦C by 2100. Local adaptation responses will be required to…Publication Date 2015
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordThe Australian continent’s rangelands have small populations scattered over huge areas and are characterised by extreme temporal variability and threatening eco-climatic processes and changes …Publication Date 2015
- Australia
- Queensland
- Library Collection RecordThis article presents a range of potential adaptations and innovations and aims at informing about the future transport systems in the rangelands according to different factors of demographic,…Publication Date 2015
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordIt is recommended that papers in the conference proceedings be cited in the following manner: Bastin, G, Sparrow, A, Scarth, P., Gill, T. Barneston, J. and Staben G. (2015). Are we there yet?…Publication Date 2015
- Australia
- business strategy
- leading practice
- transformational adaptation
- Library Collection RecordThe literature is replete with examples of communities which have suffered significant impacts from nearby mine operations and their subsequent closure. Increasingly, there is awareness amongst the…Publication Date 2015
- Australia
- enduring value
- mine closure
- mine lifecycle
- social responsibility
- Library Collection RecordThe Pilbara Mesquite Management Committee (PMMC) was one of the first community groups in the WA rangelands to focus on partnering with local land managers in developing local solutions to one of…Publication Date 2015
- Australia
- natural resource management
- partnerships
- rangelands
- weed management
- Library Collection RecordThe 66,640km2 Mount Isa Inlier/Northwest highlands bioregion in north western Queensland is typified by rugged red rocky hills, low open woodland of spinifex and snappy gum and is the location of…Publication Date 2015
- Australia
- biodiversity
- engagement
- fire
- Managment
- Queensland
- stakeholder
- Library Collection RecordWhile most of Australia’s aridlands have suffered either total loss or serious declines of native fauna, the Martu lands in WA’s Western Desert in the eastern Pilbara provide one of the last…Publication Date 2015
- Australia
- Country
- culture
- Martu
- partnership
- threatened
- Library Collection RecordThe Western Local Land Service (LLS) area of operation is large, covering 40% of NSW, with a range of Landsystems and vegetation community types. Under future climate change scenarios, western NSW is…Publication Date 2015
- Australia
- climate
- Landsat
- landscape
- refugia
- remote sensing
- time-series
- western New South Wales
- Library Collection RecordThe land suffered under pastoral management by outsiders across the eastern APY Lands. Grazing management was no better (perhaps worse) than before when we got the APY Act and agistment began. We…Publication Date 2015
- South Australia
- Library Collection RecordMTP Contracting is an Indigenous business operating out of Corella Creek Community in the Barkly Tablelands, NT. Established originally as a contract mustering business, MTP has expanded into NRM…Publication Date 2015
- Australia
- Barkly
- fee-for-service
- indigenous
- innovation
- NRM
- Weeds
- Library Collection RecordIn the many discussions over the last forty years about the significance of Australia-wide Aboriginal fire practices, one concept that has become common is the importance of ‘mosaic burning’ for…Publication Date 2015
- Australia
- Channel Country
- fire management
- mosaic burning
- settlement
- spinifex
- Library Collection RecordWe report on a collaborative project about climate change and adaptation. The project’s overall goal was to find good ways to build desert Aboriginal people’s understanding of climate change and…Publication Date 2015
- Aboriginal ranger
- Australia
- climate change
- climate science
- erosion control
- indigenous people
- Library Collection RecordThe feral camel is an established pest animal in Australia. The species occurs across an area of about 3.3 million km2 encompassing parts of Queensland (Qld), South Australia (SA), the Northern…Publication Date 2015
- Australia
- feral herbivore
- landscape scale
- partnerships
- Library Collection RecordFire management recommended for biodiversity conservation and reducing greenhouse gas emissions (reduce late dry season fire) contrasts to that for managing woody plant thickening on pastoral lands…Publication Date 2015
- Australia
- fire frequency
- fire management
- savanna burning
- Library Collection RecordKiwirrkurra country, in the remote Gibson Desert, hosts important populations of two key threatened species: bilby and great desert skink. These species are sparsely distributed throughout the…Publication Date 2015
- Australia
- bilby
- biodiversity protection
- feral cat
- great desert skink
- hunting
- Kiwirrkurra
- Library Collection RecordThe increase in woody plant density in grasslands and the conversion of open woodlands into shrublands (i.e. woody thickening) is a phenomenon that has been increasingly reported in the past decade…Publication Date 2015
- aerial photograph interpretation
- API
- Australia
- Landsat
- western New South Wales
- Western NSW
- woody thickening
- Library Collection RecordIn 2014 Ngadju were granted Native Title over some 10 million hectares of southern Western Australia, including exclusive possession over 5 million hectares of unallocated crown land in the Great…Publication Date 2015
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordThe objective of this study was to estimate geographical distribution of Halocnemum strobilaceum and Artemisia sieberi species, finding the most important variables in the distribution of these…Publication Date 2015
- AUC
- Australia
- geostatistics
- Kappa coefficient
- Maxent
- potential habitat
- Library Collection RecordThe Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands are freehold aboriginal lands spanning approximately 10 million hectares of country in the North West corner of South Australia. APY Land…Publication Date 2015
- APY
- buffel grass
- fire
- IPA
- South Australia
- South Australia
- threatened species
- Library Collection RecordA joint three year Australian Government Overseas Aid Program (Aus Aid) African training partnership between the University of New England, Armidale and Central West Catchment Management Authority…Publication Date 2015
- African trainees
- Aus Aid
- Australia
- rehabilitation
- training
- waterponding
- Waterspreading
- Library Collection RecordIn ‘The Bush’ Don Watson captures the nub of the rangelands dilemma. “Only about 15% of Australians now live outside the cities and the essentially suburban coastal corridor...Those coastal…Publication Date 2015
- Australia
- disruptive change
- governance
- national interest
- policy failure
- rangeland futures
- Library Collection RecordInvaded landscapes must be managed to ensure they remain productive, ecological frameworks have been developed to determine which populations should be managed (Moody and Mack 1988). However, many of…Publication Date 2008
- invasive species
- grazing lands
- Library Collection RecordThis paper describes a modelling approach to quantifying pasture degradation risk using a decision tree model in conjunction with information generated from the AussieGRASS Environmental Calculator.…Publication Date 2008
- Model Development
- pasture degradation
- Library Collection RecordDuring the 1990s the Commonwealth worked cooperatively with State and Territory governments, traditional owners, industry, the farming community and conservation groups towards a national rangeland…Publication Date 2008
- biophysical
- rangeland strategy
- Socio-economic
- Library Collection RecordRecent field research has established that biological soil crust communities (cyanobacteria, lichens, liverworts and mosses) are widespread across the rangelands of Queensland. Our survey has covered…Publication Date 2008
- Cyanobacteria
- biodiversity
- cyanobacterial soil crusts
- Queensland
- Library Collection RecordCyanobacteria-dominated soil crusts are a significant component of Australian arid and semi-arid landscapes. Morphogenetic adaptation has enabled cyanobacteria to respond to both short- and long-term…Publication Date 2008
- biological soil crusts
- cyanobacterial soil crusts
- soil nutrients
- Library Collection RecordThe Queensland Murray Darling Committee (QMDC) is working with the community in the Maranoa Balonne and Border Rivers catchments to encourage and support sustainable use of natural resources. A…Publication Date 2008
- Murray Darling Basin
- Queensland
- Library Collection RecordThe role of intra-specific diversity in maintaining species diversity and plant communities is not well understood however has significant implications for rangeland restoration because intraspecific…Publication Date 2008
- species diversity
- revegetation plants
- quantitative traits
- western New South Wales
- Library Collection RecordThe conservation of Australia’s northern rangelands is important research. Grazing animal distribution and utilisation are valuable measures of how well rangelands are managed. However, the…Publication Date 2008
- Arid climate
- Iseilema
- Astrebla
- animal distribution
- Australia's Northern Rangelands
- Library Collection RecordFORAGE is a web-based facility which provides information relating to climate and pasture condition at user-specified locations. The system receives requests from web pages, processes those…Publication Date 2008
- climate
- environmental management
- land condition
- pasture growth
- Library Collection RecordUneven use of the landscape by grazing herbivores leads to some areas being over utilised whilst others are under utilised (Andrew 1988). Understanding the scale and impact of preferential selection…Publication Date 2008
- sustainable land management
- resource section functions
- Library Collection RecordThis paper describes the impact of national and state level natural resource management (NRM) policies on private native forest activities and agro-forestry opportunities in Central Queensland. These…Publication Date 2008
- forest management
- biophysical attributes
- vegetation management control
- Library Collection RecordPasture utilisation is a term used to describe the estimation of animal intake of pasture dry matter expressed as a proportion of either pasture growth per season or nominated period. The calculation…Publication Date 2008
- pastures
- feed intake
- GRASP
- grazing trial
- pasture utilisation
- QuikIntake
- Library Collection RecordDespite the global importance of tropical C4 vegetation, we understand little about how it will contribute to the biosphere’s response to rising atmospheric CO2 (Nowak et al. 2004; Ainsworth and…Publication Date 2008
- carbon fixation
- FACE
- Library Collection RecordWith climate change firmly on the global agenda, carbon trading is emerging as a growth industry. In Australia the rangelands has been identified as one of the country’s largest carbon sinks.…Publication Date 2008
- climate change
- carrying capacity
- Carbon Sink
- Cheela Plain
- Library Collection RecordResource managers require a range of financial and ecological information to evaluate rangeland pastoral systems, given the competitive pressures for improving productivity and environmental…Publication Date 2008
- hydrology
- Central Queensland
- ecological stability
- rangeland pastoral systems
- Library Collection Record‘Change’ is a continuing theme from previous rangelands conferences: e.g. it was a key element at Renmark in 2006 (Foran 2006). So in today’s world where climate change is accepted (if not…Publication Date 2008
- ACRIS
- climate variability
- social demographics
- Library Collection RecordManaging the rangeland ecosystems services (ES) for all Australians is becoming increasingly important as some regions experience a decline in primary productivity, aging rural communities and…Publication Date 2008
- climate change
- Stony Plains Bioregion
- Library Collection RecordPimelea trichostachya and P. simplex were confirmed as causal agents of St George/Marree disease in the 1970s (Clark 1971; Roberts and Healy 1971). These plants are native herbs that preferentially…Publication Date 2008
- P. simplex
- pimelea trichostachya
- Library Collection RecordIt has been over 30 years since early satellite imagery illustrated serious degradation across much of the high quality savanna rangelands. It sparked a surge of research, development and extension (…Publication Date 2008
- degradation
- land management
- Library Collection RecordKenaf, Hibiscus cannabinus L. is traditionally known as a fibre crop but it also produces seeds which may be a valuable protein supplement to livestock in rangelands. This study investigated the…Publication Date 2008
- ruminants
- Library Collection RecordRegional variation in species-habitat relationships, where species have natural geographic ranges extending over multiple biogeographic regions, has seldom been studied (Whittingham et al. 2005) and…Publication Date 2008
- Biogeographic regions
- climate change
- Library Collection RecordA four-year, producer-inspired research project, jointly-funded by Queensland DPIF, CSIRO and MLA, is investigating different grazing systems across the northern beef industry. Nine commercial beef…Publication Date 2008
- beef industry
- Northern and Southern Queensland
- spatial uniformity
- Library Collection RecordA four-year, producer-inspired research project, jointly-funded by Queensland DPIF, CSIRO and MLA, is investigating different grazing systems across the northern beef industry. Nine commercial beef…Publication Date 2008
- beef industry
- Northern and Southern Queensland
- spatial uniformity
- Library Collection RecordA four-year, producer-inspired research project, jointly-funded by Queensland DPIF, CSIRO and MLA, is investigating different grazing systems across the northern beef industry. Nine commercial beef…Publication Date 2008
- beef industry
- Northern and Southern Queensland
- spatial uniformity
- Library Collection RecordA key question in conservation management is what are the processes driving declines in small mammals across northern Australia. While it seems clear that current fire regimes may contribute to…Publication Date 2008
- ecosystem attributes
- fire plan
- Northern Western Australia
- Library Collection RecordMany reasons are cited why young people are not entering and/or staying in rural industries, most commonly competition for other industry sectors, including mining. (Dyer 2007)Â The North Australian…Publication Date 2008
- Future Farmers Network
- North Australian Pastoral Company
- Library Collection RecordThe poor state of formal environmental auditing of Western Australian rangelands does not appear to have limited adequately the expansive environmental reporting on their health in terms of resource…Publication Date 2008
- environmental auditing
- NGOs
- Library Collection RecordPhyla canescens (lippia) is an invasive weed from South America that is now widespread throughout floodplains and wetlands of the Murray-Darling Basin in Australia. Lippia has invaded internationally…Publication Date 2008
- floodplains
- grazing management
- competition
- Murray Darling Basin
- seasonal rest
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