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- Library Collection RecordThis paper introduces Walgett’s Dharriwaa Elders Group and its role to provide advocacy and representation for Walgett Aboriginal elders in Aboriginal cultural management and community development…Publication Date 2010
- management
- aboriginal culture
- caring for country
- 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 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 RecordThe focus of this study is to explore and expand farmer learning processes in sustainable agriculture workplace contexts. It examines change oriented learning processes in the context of three…Publication Date 2010
- sustainable agriculture
- southern Africa
- Sustainable development
- Permaculture
- organic farming
- Training of farmers
- Zimbabwe
- South Africa
- Social and economic conditions
- socio-economic aspects
- communal farming
- Sustainable development
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe project was initiated by Eastern Cape Parks (ECP) as a request for the construction of inventories of priority species and their population levels inside three nature reserves on the Eastern Cape…Publication Date 2010
- Plant diversity conservation
- South Africa
- Eastern Cape
- Rare plants
- Population viability analysis
- biodiversity
- Plant conservation
- Conservation of Natural Resources
- Human-plant relationships
- socio-economic aspects
- conservation
- Nature reserves
- subsistence agriculture
- management
- grasslands
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe Great Escarpment forms a semi-continuous mountain system 5 000 km long, stretching from Angola in the north-west, south through Namibia, and into western, southern and eastern South Africa,…Publication Date 2010
- phytogeography
- Great Escarpment
- Sneeuberg
- Nuweveldberge
- Roggeveldberge
- Endemism
- Flora - migration
- conservation
- climate change
- degradation
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe exotic plant Lantana camara L. has invaded the riparian areas of the Victoria Falls World Heritage Site in Livingstone, southern Zambia, threatening native plant communities which support…Publication Date 2010
- Lantana camara
- Victoria Falls
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
- invasive plants
- biological control
- Riparian restoration
- riparian ecology
- restoration ecology
- herbicides
- seeds
- Weeds
- Alien invasive species
- conservation
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe spatial and temporal patterns of fire in Africa south of the equator are described and investigated to test hypotheses on the main drivers of fire. In particular, the relative importance of…Publication Date 2010
- fire ecology
- Savanna ecology
- southern Africa
- vegatation dynamics
- fires
- environmental aspects
- satellite imagery
- modelling
- global change
- rainfall
- southern Africa
- 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 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 RecordLand use and land transformation are major threats to biodiversity. Only a small percentage of land and thus biodiversity is protected within reserves. The majority of biodiversity lies in the hands…Publication Date 2010
- biodiversity
- South Africa
- Eastern Cape
- Agrobiodiversity
- Agricultural ecology
- veld
- landscape assessment
- rangeland condition
- rangelands
- plant production
- grassland
- savanna
- socio-economic aspects
- communal farming
- grazing
- fire ecology
- soil erosion
- commercial agriculture
- 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 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 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 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 RecordVegetation data were collected at 30 randomly located sample points during June 2009. Data were collected using both ocular estimation and line-point intercept transects each describing fuel load…Publication Date 2010
- Southeastern Idaho
- Library Collection RecordClimate change and a growing demand for freshwater resources due to population increases and socio-economic changes will make water a limiting factor (in terms of both quantity and quality) in…Publication Date 2010
- water supply
- southern Africa
- hydrology
- mathematical models
- hydrologic models
- Rain and rainfall
- runoff
- climate change
- modelling
- southern Africa
- 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 RecordBiomass burning contributes significantly to the global concentrations of greenhouse gases and aerosols in the atmosphere (Fishman et al., 2003, Kaufman et al., 1998). The African continent is…Publication Date 2010
- Air
- pollution
- earth sciences
- remote sensing
- image processing
- fire ecology
- groundcover fires
- environmental aspects
- southern Africa
- Savanna ecology
- biomass
- greenhouse gases
- savanna
- carbon dioxide
- Methane
- southern Africa
- 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 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 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 highly variable invasive shrub, Lantana camara L. (Verbenaceae), has been notoriously difficult to control thus far despite a well established biological control programme in South Africa. A…Publication Date 2009
- Lantana camara
- South Africa
- Eastern Cape
- biological control
- Biological pest control agents
- Weeds
- biological control
- invasive plants
- Hemiptera
- Miridae
- Alien invasive species
- management
- insects
- restoration ecology
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordAlso issued on CD-ROM. Summary available in English and AfrikaansPublication Date 2009
- plant production
- Forage Quantity
- forage quality
- nutrition
- triticale
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordAnyone who lives in the West County of St. Louis knows the next chapter of the story. Like urban deer populations that thrive in subdivisions with no predators, wild horse populations expanded…Publication Date 2009
- Library Collection RecordSpecies possess characteristics that are considered adapted to burning and these allow them to outcompete species and dominate in fire prone environments. It has therefore been proposed that fire…Publication Date 2009
- photosynthesis
- Carbon metabolism
- grasses
- Effect of fires on plants
- grasslands
- fire ecology
- drought
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordAlso issued on CD-ROM. Summary available in English and AfrikaansPublication Date 2009
- pasture management
- foraging ecology
- plant production
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordTo redress past discrepancies in land tenure, the ANC government acknowledged that land needs to be made accessible to the previously disadvantaged, announcing that commonage would be a pillar of…Publication Date 2009
- Municipal commonage
- Livelihoods
- natural resource valuation
- direct-use values
- policies
- politics
- socio-economic aspects
- land tenure
- land use
- communal farming
- legislation
- management
- grazing
- southern Africa
- Library Collection Recordflexible grazing management facilitates these processes and thus, the sustainability of rangeland livestock production.Publication Date 2009
- herbivory
- Arizona
- changes
- Library Collection RecordThe Minerals and Petroleum Resources Act (MRPDA) No 28 of 2002 of South Africa states that the holder of a mining permit remains liable for environmental consequences until a closure certificate has…Publication Date 2009
- landscape ecology
- South Africa
- Highveld
- grassland ecology
- gold mines
- mining
- environmental aspects
- spectrum analysis
- restoration ecology
- rehabilitation
- modelling
- monitoring
- remote sensing
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe invasion of Acacia mearnsii in the Kouga catchment, Eastern Cape, South Africa, has various negative impacts on the ecosystem. These impacts include: reduced species richness, increased water use…Publication Date 2009
- Acacia mearnsii
- Wattles
- soil erosion
- Conservation of Natural Resources
- biological invasions
- alien plants
- invasive plants
- biogeography
- soil management
- soil moisture
- Soils alien invasive species
- soil nutrients
- conservation
- restoration ecology
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordInternationally there is an increasing focus on involving local communities in natural resource management and monitoring. Monitoring methods which are professionally driven appear to be inadequate…Publication Date 2009
- Conservation of Natural Resources
- natural resources
- management
- Community development
- citizen participation
- Conservation of Natural Resources
- social aspects
- socio-economic aspects
- management
- natural resources
- monitoring
- communal farming
- conservation
- biodiversity
- rangelands
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe decommissioning of mines and mining-related activities brings about the onset of rehabilitation. A legacy that most coal mines must address is the rehabilitation of the coal discard dumps that…Publication Date 2009
- conservation
- mining
- rehabilitation
- restoration ecology
- soils
- grass
- seeds
- fertiliser
- management
- soil nutrients
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordAlso issued on CD-ROM. Summary available in English and AfrikaansPublication Date 2009
- agriculture
- plant production
- grazing
- management
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordCommonage is land that is usually found adjacent to a town, which is owned by the local municipality and acquired through state grants or, historically, through the church. Since the new government…Publication Date 2009
- commonage
- land reform
- common property resource
- adaptive co-management
- Subsistence farming
- management
- land use
- grazing
- Sustainable utilisation
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordLand degradation is a global problem affecting many countries including South Africa. This study was conducted in order to assess and monitor the nature and extent of land degradation within Qoqodala…Publication Date 2009
- geographic information systems
- South Africa
- Eastern Cape
- remote sensing
- land degradation
- monitoring
- GIS
- indigenous encroaching species
- erosion
- southern Africa
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