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- 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 RecordThe nutritional values of native plants in the arid shrublands of Western Australia were compared to the nutrition (dietary) profile of Merino sheep estimated from faecal samples. Plant profiles had…Publication Date 2008
- native species
- Merino
- Library Collection RecordIncreasing demand for seed of native grasses in Queensland, mostly for rehabilitation of landscapes affected by mining or urban development, is not being satisfied through current production systems…Publication Date 2008
- pasture plants
- Library Collection RecordA recently completed MLA funded study (Post et al. 2006) applied sustainable grazing strategies, including reduced utilisation and wet season spelling to commercial paddocks at Virginia Park…Publication Date 2008
- sustainable land management
- Bothriochloa pertusa
- north Queensland
- Library Collection RecordFactors that influence selective grazing preference occur at a range of scales and include both edaphic elements such as topography, vegetation community, soil type and human influences such as…Publication Date 2008
- cattle
- degradation
- Library Collection RecordSustainable use of wildlife has become widely accepted in recent years as a strategy to secure conservation outcomes at the same time as supporting human livelihoods (CITES 1992; IUCN 2000; CBD 2004…Publication Date 2008
- incentives
- Library Collection RecordCommercial activity for Australian bush foods industry is derived from uniquely Australian flora and fauna and is founded primarily on traditional Aboriginal knowledge of the collection, preparation…Publication Date 2008
- commercialization
- Library Collection RecordUnder extensive grazing, cattle exercise choice in where they graze and the pasture species they prefer to graze. Often, these choices are influenced by physical drivers in the landscape, such as…Publication Date 2008
- management
- erosion
- Central Queensland
- Library Collection RecordThe Pilbara region of WA alone contributes about $10 billion in export earnings from mining iron ore. The industry is expanding in the region with many new prospects being developed. While each…Publication Date 2008
- environmental impact
- iron
- Pilbara region
- Library Collection RecordLandholders in the Western Catchment are employing different types of management strategies to improve or maintain groundcover, so they remain sustainable both environmentally and economically. Total…Publication Date 2008
- incentives
- sustainable grazing
- Library Collection RecordThe emerging carbon economy will have a major impact on grazing businesses due to significant livestock methane and land-use change emissions. Livestock methane alone accounts for around 11% of…Publication Date 2008
- carbon
- livestock
- methane emission
- budgets
- Library Collection RecordThere are approximately 4.5 million cattle grazed in catchments along the Great Barrier Reef with the greatest numbers in the Fitzroy and Burdekin catchments (Source: Great Barrier Reef Marine Park…Publication Date 2008
- overgrazing
- erosion
- Fitzroy and Burdekin catchments
- Great Barrier Reef
- Library Collection RecordSatellite data are increasingly used to assess trends in rangeland cover (Grech et al. 2003; Karfs 2002), and a variety of indices have been derived from satellite data to assess land condition or…Publication Date 2008
- ground cover
- Library Collection RecordExploring the potential role of the commercial use of native species in providing rural livelihoods and building ecological resilience is the primary focus of the FATE program at UNSW (www.fate.unsw.…Publication Date 2008
- rural finance
- 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 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 RecordThe Building Partnerships to Improve Rangeland Management project is a collaborative, partnership-based approach to natural resource management in South Australian rangelands. The project’s broad…Publication Date 2008
- funding
- collaborative
- innovative
- Library Collection RecordThe spread of invasive native shrub (INS) is a major problem in the semi-arid zone of western NSW. Although there are well established methods to control these plants, prohibitive cost and/or limited…Publication Date 2008
- costs
- semi-arid
- 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 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
- Progress
- Library Collection Record“Beefplan†was originally designed by MLA some ten years ago as an experiment. MLA recognised that a lot of the results of research in northern Australia were still sitting on the shelf and had…Publication Date 2008
- research
- Business Management
- Northern Australia
- Library Collection RecordIn recent years there has been recognition of, and importance placed on rehabilitation of the Australian landscape. Rehabilitation targets are being set by natural resource management (NRM) bodies…Publication Date 2008
- rehabilitation
- reclamation
- cattle
- Burdekin Catchment
- Library Collection RecordCollection of all papers and posters presented at the 15th Biennial Conference of the Australian Rangeland Society, 2008. (Each individual paper is also indexed separately in the Global Rangeland…Publication Date 2008
- Library Collection RecordAt present the only penalty that land administrators may use in managing a lease is forfriture. There is a need for administrators to be able to use less severe penalties. A system of fines is…Publication Date 2014
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordUsing principles established by Maslow the relationship between a manager's needs and the stocking strategy he adopts is explored. Conclusions from economic and social surveys of the arid zone…Publication Date 2014
- arid Australia
- Australia
- Land Acts
- principles
- Library Collection RecordBoth the condition and the productive potential of Australia's rangelands indicate a neglect of these resources by governments, research organisations and teaching institutions. There is a need…Publication Date 2014
- Queensland
- Library Collection RecordIt would be fair to say that this society was created because a group of rangeland scientists arrived at the conclusion that there was a need for change in which Australian rangelands are used and…Publication Date 2014
- Australia
- created
- objectives
- Library Collection RecordIn 1976, the Animal Industry and. Agriculture Branch of the Department of the Northern Territory commenced a systematic survey of pasture conditions on cattle stations in the Alice Springs district.…Publication Date 2014
- Agriculture Branch
- Alice Springs
- animal industry
- Australia
- Department of the Northern Territory
- Library Collection RecordThe concepts of range condition assessment have been widely (though not universally) accepted in principle by personnel concerned with rangelands in western New South Wales. The methodology and its…Publication Date 2014
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordThe argument that rangeland managers should assess the condition of their vegetation stresses the serious costs, to the nation and to the manager, which may arise from failing to do this. At this…Publication Date 2014
- Australia
- Rangeland Managers
- Library Collection RecordA joint team from the Department of Agriculture and the Department of Land Information has recentlycompleted its largest endeavour yet - land classification, mapping and resource evaluation of 181,…Publication Date 2004
- land classification
- mapping
- pastoralism
- resource evaluation
- Library Collection RecordThere is little documented information of the performance of grazing cattle in the Pilbara.Similarlythere is no information on the quality of the diet that cattle actually select on the different…Publication Date 2004
- quality
- systems
- lactation stage
- Library Collection RecordBeef cattle production has been carried out on the basalt soils - Queensland bluegrass (Dicanthiumsericeum) areas of the Great Dividing Range in south -east Queensland for over 100 years. However,the…Publication Date 2004
- Dicanthium sericeum
- south-east Queensland
- Library Collection RecordThe main land resource dataset in the Kimberley is reconnaissance land systems mapping conducted ata scale of 1:250,000 by CSIRO in the 1950s. Land systems delineate areas of recurring patterns…Publication Date 2004
- mapping
- land management
- Library Collection RecordThis report outlines the methods and results of a survey of experienced rangeland practitionersundertaken in 2003, regarding the relative palatability of a number of perennial plants in the…Publication Date 2004
- E. crenulata
- Eremophila fraseri
- M. convexa
- Maireana amoena
- Maireana platycarpa
- Library Collection RecordAlthough fences are ubiquitous in Australian landscapes, they are neglected objects of study. Fencesare the basic management tools used to separate property, livestock and crops, and to…Publication Date 2004
- livestock
- crops
- management
- Library Collection RecordRoberts (1996) cited the pastures of the Channel Country as the equal of any of the great floodedsystems of the world - the Okavango Delta, the flooded Pampas and the Pantanal. However, anyonewho has…Publication Date 2004
- hydrology
- unique
- Library Collection RecordStudies in temperate and sub -tropical Australia indicate that trees play a major role in nutrient cyclinge.g.Attiwell etal.(1978) and hence are important in maintaining system productivity…Publication Date 2004
- nutrient cycling in ecosystems
- productivity
- sustainability
- Library Collection RecordThe Barkly Rangeland Management Course was initially developed in 1999 through Landcare supportand Natural Heritage Trust (NHT) funding. It was developed in response to requests from landholdersfor…Publication Date 2004
- beef
- Barkly Region
- pasture dynamics
- Library Collection RecordIn Western Australia there are approximately 474 pastoral stations covering about 90 million hectaresor 36% of the State.Changing community expectations as to how land is managed, along…Publication Date 2004
- Globalization
- Pastoral Industry
- Library Collection RecordThe Pastoral Program has recently produced a field guide of native and introduced plants that occurwithin the rangelands region of South Australia. The guide is of a convenient size, durability,…Publication Date 2004
- native species
- tourism
- non-native species
- Library Collection RecordUnderstanding the challenges facing land managers in the rangelands of New South Wales is theprimary objective of `Semi -arid Land Management', a unit of study we run in the…Publication Date 2004
- rural areas
- New South Wales
- Library Collection RecordThe adjusted mean frequency of live Mitchell grass (Astrebla spp.) in western Queensland grazed bysheep, cattle and large macropods declined from 75 to 45% between 2002 and 2003, following a nineyear…Publication Date 2004
- mortality
- drought
- Western Queensland
- Library Collection RecordThe pastoral lease region of South Australia comprises an extensive area of native vegetation usedprimarily for sheep and cattle grazing. A spatial audit of the pastoral lease lands is currently…Publication Date 2004
- native species
- sheep
- cattle
- abattoirs
- South Australia
- Library Collection RecordIn the 1860s when pastoral enterprises were first established in the Dalrymple Shire, cattle weremanaged using an open -range system, with low inputs and low outputs (Allingham 1976). Despite…Publication Date 2004
- cattle
- technology