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- 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 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 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 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 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 RecordThis paper has collated information obtained from existing quandong (Santalum acuminatum) growers and literature on factors to consider when establishing a small quandong orchard. The quandong…Publication Date 2010
- Australian native foods
- quandong
- Santalum acuminatum
- Library Collection RecordThe Australian rangelands are inhabited by a variety of vertebrate pest animals including rabbits, foxes, and wild dogs, and feral camels, goats, pigs and cats. These pests cause environmental…Publication Date 2010
- Pests
- management
- Animal
- Library Collection RecordThe tendency of water to infiltrate (infiltrability) determines the productivity of rangelands. However, how patterns of infiltrability change in response to gradients of disturbance remains largely…Publication Date 2010
- infiltration
- spatial pattern
- 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 RecordThe growing size and impact of the feral camel population in Australia’s rangelands has emerged as a serious issue of management. The usual rangelands issues of remoteness, low human population…Publication Date 2010
- biodiversity protection
- camel harvesting
- indigenous
- Library Collection RecordA heavy mineral sand mine has commenced operations on the eastern edge of the Nullarbor Plain, South Australia. This area has low annual rainfall and frequent drought, resulting in challenges in…Publication Date 2010
- mining
- rehabilitation
- Cyanobacteria
- Nullarbor Plain
- South Australia
- Library Collection RecordInvasive native scrub (INS) has caused major changes to landscapes in the Western Catchment of NSW. To allow for the management of INS under the Native Vegetation Act 2003a simplified assessment…Publication Date 2010
- Demonstration
- Invasive native scrub
- Property Vegetation Plans
- Western NSW
- Library Collection RecordTraditionally the presence of large numbers of woody plants in rangelands is thought to reflect declining rangeland health and reduced pastoral productivity. However, an increasing body of evidence…Publication Date 2010
- shrubs
- competition
- facilitation
- Library Collection RecordWestern Australia has 57 of its approximately 500 pastoral leases owned in some form by Aboriginal communities. Ownership of pastoral leases has provided many Aboriginal communities in the rangelands…Publication Date 2010
- pastoralism
- economics
- Aboriginal
- Western Australia
- Library Collection RecordThrough our experiences and partnerships at Desert Knowledge CRC we have accumulated a combination of expertise and commitment to tackle the issues facing people in remote Australia, which we are now…Publication Date 2010
- rangelands
- regional economies
- songlines
- Library Collection RecordResearch and Development in the rangelands of Australia has typically been reductionist in nature, focussing on segments of what is in reality a deeply integrated system of interaction containing…Publication Date 2010
- pastoralism
- interdisciplinary research
- community attitudes
- Library Collection RecordBook by Glenn Shewmaker et al. concerning Pasture, Grazing, Rangeland Management and other subjectsPublication Date 2010
- pastures
- grazing
- grassland management
- Idaho
- Library Collection RecordIncreasing carbon stocks is dependent upon better management of carbon flows in and slowing flows out. This relies on three strategies: 1) Focusing on the point in time when the bulk of carbon…Publication Date 2010
- landscape
- drought
- pasture rest
- Australia
- carbon flow
- resilience
- Library Collection RecordWhat is new to our management is active landscape restoration, which we have commenced by participating in the Ecosystem Management Understanding (EMU) ProjectTM through the Neales River Catchment…Publication Date 2010
- Feral animals
- grazing management
- feral herds
- landscape care
- Australia
- Pastoralists
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordSummary 10.1002/9780470609880.ch8.abs This chapter contains sections titled: * Introduction * Hominid Exploitation of Wetlands Environments and Resources * Early Hominins: Colonization of New…Publication Date 2010
- exploitation of wetlands environments and foods by pre-sapiens hominins
- early hominins - colonization of new environments
- preconditions for encephalization - physiological considerations
- palaeobotany
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordAgricultural growth will prove essential for improving the welfare of the vast majority of Africa’s poor. Roughly 80 percent of the continent’s poor live in rural areas, and even those who do not…Publication Date 2010
- Library Collection RecordA thorough understanding of the behavior of fire in grasslands is critical to the minimization of the impact of fires on agricultural and pastoral land as well as the successful management of the…Publication Date 2010
- fire
- grasslands
- management
- species richness
- climate change
- fire ecology
- agriculture
- pastoralism
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordPastoralists need to manage the feed gap risk that climatic/forage resource variability presents. We use the PHYGROW model to better understand interactions between this variability and the…Publication Date 2010
- pastoralism
- climate
- Gobi Desert
- Mongolia
- variability
- Library Collection RecordProvision of permanent water in Australia’s rangeland regions and the subsequent effects of grazing in these habitats have altered the composition and condition of arid zone bird communities. Some…Publication Date 2010
- birds
- assemblages
- water
- Library Collection RecordThis research is based in far north-west Queensland at Boodjamulla National Park, a dryland savannah dominated by Eucalyptusand Melaleucawoodlands and floodplains. The interspaces between the…Publication Date 2010
- Eucalyptus
- Melaleuca
- carbon sequestration
- cyanobacterial crusts
- Library Collection RecordThe Murray-Darling Basin is a Social-Ecological System (SES) of major importance to Australia and includes extensive wetland areas in the north western parts of New South Wales. Historical land use…Publication Date 2010
- grazing management
- Murray-Darling Basin
- weed invasion
- Library Collection RecordLiterature suggests that provision of artificial water through bores, dams and ground tanks has negative environmental effects through increased grazing pressure, prevention of native species…Publication Date 2010
- biodiversity
- grazing pressure
- Water Point
- Library Collection RecordVermejo Park Ranch is the largest of several ranching properties owned by billionaire philanthropist R. E. “Ted†Turner. By his design, its mission is to balance ecological sensitivity and…Publication Date 2010
- management
- integration
- balances
- North Central New Mexico
- United States
- Library Collection RecordThresholds and transitions between states are well-accepted components of the models of range dynamics. By definition, they represent a change from one state to another that is intransient and…Publication Date 2010
- state
- range monitoring
- vegetation dynamics
- Library Collection RecordAbstract Livestock grazing is often viewed as having detrimental effects on plants and plant communities. Livestock grazing can, however, be managed to be an effective tool for vegetation management…Publication Date 2010
- livestock
- grazing
- nutrition
- ecology
- management
- vegetation dynamics
- ecosystem ecology
- fire ecology
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordThis paper describes the regeneration potential of agricultural landscapes within a temporary wetland area of the Macquarie Marshes. In each of 49 sites, plant origin (native/exotic) and -diversity (…Publication Date 2010
- wetlands
- regeneration
- native vegetation
- Library Collection RecordDespite the availability of electronic communication technologies our experience in co-producing the Western Division Newsletter for the last five years, and the favourable comments received from…Publication Date 2010
- communication
- Extension
- Western Division Newsletter
- Library Collection RecordDespite their vast size and a declining workforce it is possible to manage pastoral leases effectively by focusing on landscape function to identify key critical areas. Natural and human-induced…Publication Date 2010
- landscape
- management
- effective
- South Australia
- Library Collection RecordSustainable pasture utilisation rates are the cornerstone of the grazing industry because they directly determine carrying capacity. To date, we have been able to determine utilisation rates only by…Publication Date 2010
- carrying capacity
- land condition
- utilization rates
- Library Collection RecordContour furrows act to impound rainfall runoff and create favourable situations for plant growth. In the Western Catchment (NSW), furrowing and other mechanical treatments have been used since the…Publication Date 2010
- Geomorphology
- Range Rehabilitation
- runon-runoff
- Library Collection RecordFire management is an important issue for landholders in mallee areas. Relationships between eucalypt litter fuel loads and fire intensity are well researched, but basic information on fuel re-…Publication Date 2010
- fires
- litter
- mallee
- Library Collection RecordRangeland rainpools fill from direct heavy rain helped by local runoff and usually persist for only a few weeks or months. They are of many types including rock pools (gnammas), grassy pools and…Publication Date 2010
- diverse
- invertebrates
- productive
- Library Collection RecordA four-year program to restore scalded and bare soils in western NSW, Australia, during the 1980s has left a remarkable legacy that has since rehabilitated 30,000 hectares of severely degraded land…Publication Date 2010
- rehabilitation
- scalded
- waterponding
- Library Collection RecordThe AussieGRASS Environmental Calculator is a national simulation framework for Australian grasslands. It was developed by the Department of Environment and Resource Management in Queensland in…Publication Date 2010
- climate change impacts
- emissions
- modelling
- Library Collection RecordInnovations have been an important part of agriculture in Australia, being developed by necessity to provide unique ways of simplifying tasks, saving time or improving effectiveness. Innovators…Publication Date 2010
- innovation
- networks
- Bestprac
- Library Collection RecordThe TGB Osborn Vegetation Reserve, Koonamore, was established in 1925 to record the changes in vegetation of a chenopod shrubland as the land recovered from severe stocking pressure. Permanent…Publication Date 2010
- video
- Library Collection RecordThis presentation discusses a pre-eminent concern of landscape level watershed management and introduces a tool developed to foster cost-effective stewardship. The need to accurately and quickly…Publication Date 2010
- function
- GIS/remote sensing
- Library Collection RecordA pastoral property manager has many issues to deal with and a surprisingly large number of options to consider. Many of those issues can relate to family or personal matters and not the…Publication Date 2010
- business plan
- distractions
- grazing pressure
- Library Collection Record“Who took the water?†said Barney from Bourke after the January 2008 flood. A half a metre of rain in Charleville and very little got into the Darling. The long and short answer is the…Publication Date 2010
- floodplains
- flooding
- Warrego River
- Library Collection RecordThe Northern Grazing Systems project aims to increase adoption of innovative best-practice grazing management by beef producers throughout northern Australia. Four key areas requiring research,…Publication Date 2010
- simulation models
- extensive grazing
- Northern Australia
- utilisation rate
- Library Collection RecordOver the past decade, economic and agricultural growth in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has resumed. The secular downward trend in agricultural prices ended in the early 1990s; growing incomes in Asia and…Publication Date 2010
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordConservation Biology for All provides cutting-edge but basic conservation science to a global readership. A series of authoritative chapters have been written by the top names in conservation biology…Publication Date 2010
- conservation
- climate change
- socio-economic aspects
- ecosystem ecology
- management
- fire ecology
- invasive species
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordRangeland ecosystems support half of the world's livestock while also providing habitats for some of the most charismatic of wildlife species. This book examines the pressures on rangeland…Publication Date 2010
- grassland animals
- grazing
- livestock
- range management
- Library Collection RecordFeral goats are a recognised threat to biodiversity and their management in the rangelands is difficult. Using the dependence of feral goats for regular water, we investigated the effectiveness of…Publication Date 2010
- feral goat
- pest animal management
- water access
- Library Collection RecordWaterspreading is a land rehabilitation technique that targets the variability of rainfall and runoff in semi-arid systems to initiate long term changes in ground cover. This study outlines the…Publication Date 2010
- Environmental
- Invasive native scrub
- Waterspreading
- Western NSW
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