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- Library Collection RecordComputer simulation modelling provides a valuable means of understanding the functioning of Australia's rangelands and predicting the outcomes of various management strategies. Models are…Publication Date 2004
- simulation models
- global warming
- pastoralism
- Library Collection RecordIn order to minimise resource damage and enhance long -term productivity, pastoralists need improved seasonal forecasting knowledge and tools to better manage for the high climate variability that…Publication Date 2004
- productivity
- pastoralism
- El Nino
- La Niña
- Library Collection RecordThis paper discusses co-operative efforts between Andado pastoralists and the Parks & WildlifeService of the Northern Territory to fence and protect Acacia peuce (Waddy- wood), a relict species…Publication Date 2004
- pastoralism
- endangered species
- Library Collection RecordLand policy and legislation have been the major factors driving fragmentation of Australian rangelands. At the regional scale, fragmentation of rangelands has facilitated the development of private…Publication Date 2004
- Land Policies
- pastoralism
- Library Collection RecordOff-reserve conservation in the southern rangelands of Western Australia (WA) is gaining momentumat the enterprise level through the participatory Ecosystem Management Understanding (EMU) process.…Publication Date 2004
- indigenous peoples
- mining
- pastoralism
- Library Collection RecordSustainability is clearly the guiding principle of Natural Resource Management in Australia. All the regions in Australia require a Natural Resource Management (NRM) Strategy which sets targets and…Publication Date 2004
- biodiversity
- pastoralism
- Library Collection RecordPastoral managers who over-estimate the chance of good rainfall are likely to carry too many livestock and retain them too long into a dry period. By having an overly optimistic, rather than…Publication Date 2004
- pastoralism
- Arid climate
- Library Collection RecordAlthough many pastoralists use the Department of Land Information's (DLI) Satellite Remote Sensing Services (SRSS) website (http : / /www.dli.wa.ciov.au/ corporate .nsf /web /Fire +Hotspots) to…Publication Date 2004
- satellite imagery
- pastoralism
- Library Collection RecordAbstract not available.Publication Date 1990
- control methods
- grasslands
- weed control
- Aristida Infestations
- Australia
- control options
- Mitchell grass
- Library Collection RecordThe coastal wetlands of the Northern Territory are a valuable resource for conservation, pastoralism, tourism and the commercial utilisation of wildlife. These values are under threat from alien…Publication Date 1992
- pastoralism
- Coastal area
- Australia
- coastal wetlands
- conservation
- Northern Territory
- undefined
- Library Collection RecordMuch of the recent literature and discussion has dealt with sustainable management in terms of either managing ecological sustainability or economic sustainability. Very little discussion or thought…Publication Date 1996
- sustainability
- management
- Factors
- pastoralism
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordAbstract not Available.Publication Date 1996
- Land Administration
- pastoralism
- rangelands
- regional planning
- western New South Wales
- Library Collection RecordAbstract not available.Publication Date 1996
- pastoralism
- mining
- conservation (storage)
- Aboriginal People
- Western Australia
- Library Collection RecordRangeland wildlife dynamics are based on refuge habitats. Piospheres result from grazing impact around waterpoints and biodiversity is affected by grazing intensity. Wildlife losses have been…Publication Date 1996
- islands
- wildlife
- biodiversity
- pastoralism
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordWe investigated herbage dynamics, soil mobility and soil seed banks along a gradient of grazing in arid calcareous grasslands. Grazing-induced soil loss appeared to precede major compositional change…Publication Date 1996
- grasslands
- Seed banks (genetics)
- soil
- investment
- Central Australia
- Library Collection RecordAbstract not Available.Publication Date 2000
- pastoralism
- ecology
- 21th Century
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordAbstract not available.Publication Date 2000
- pastoralism
- Europe
- land
- history
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordSince the mid-nineteenth century - and especially from the 1950s - 'woody weeds' have spread across the red soil country around Gunderbooka Range. I explore human consequences of this…Publication Date 2000
- pastoralism
- Scrub
- Bushfires
- Australia
- woody weeds
- Library Collection RecordAbstract not Available.Publication Date 2000
- pastoralism
- environmental management
- rangelands
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordAbstract not Available.Publication Date 2000
- rangelands
- management
- pastoralism
- economics
- Action plans
- western New South Wales
- Library Collection RecordThe rate of recovery of vegetation from a state of poor condition is valuable information for rangeland managers who are controlling livestock and feral animal numbers in paddocks to improve…Publication Date 2000
- vegetation
- paddocks
- grasslands
- controlled grazing
- Australia
- changes
- Library Collection RecordThere is increasing interest in the impact of grazing by domestic livestock on biodiversity in Astrebla (Mitchell grass) grasslands (Woinarski 1999). A long term grazing study in Astrebla grasslands…Publication Date 2000
- grasslands
- species diversity
- soil seed banks
- Forage Use
- grazing pressure
- Queensland
- Library Collection RecordAbstract not Available.Publication Date 2000
- edaphic factors
- grasslands
- perennials
- Degradation Gradient
- variability
- Vegetation Change
- Western Queensland
- Library Collection RecordAbstract not Available.Publication Date 2000
- grasslands
- composition
- regeneration
- glyphosate
- Australia
- Austrodanthoni
- changes
- recovery
- Library Collection RecordAbstract not available.Publication Date 2002
- pastoralism
- land management
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordAustralian rangelands have been perceived as supporting a pastoral economy for more than 150 years. This perception originated from colonial expansion in a frontier economy, with State and…Publication Date 2002
- pastoralism
- Economic Importance
- rangelands
- mining
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordWe assessed the seed bank dynamics, standing herbage dynamics and soil loss along two gradients of grazing with different histories of grazing use, in the arid grasslands of central Australia. We…Publication Date 2002
- Seed banks (genetics)
- grasslands
- deterioration
- indicators
- Central Australia
- safe sites
- soil-based
- Library Collection RecordAustralia's rangelands have a distinctive land tenure regime, namely pastoral leasehold, capable of adaptive reform to accommodate emerging multiple values, uses and users. The most promising…Publication Date 2002
- land tenure
- pastoralism
- land reform
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordThis paper considers how pastoral lease arrangements may affect the emergence of non - pastoral land uses in the Australian rangelands. Non - pastoral land uses can include farming of non-…Publication Date 2002
- land reform
- land tenure
- pastoralism
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordAbstract not Available.Publication Date 2002
- Seed banks (genetics)
- native species
- grasslands
- monitoring
- new species
- germination
- site
- perennial grass
- soil disturbance
- western New South Wales
- Library Collection RecordAbstract not Available.Publication Date 2002
- grazing management
- grasslands
- enterprises
- soil
- Weeds
- landlords
- paddocks
- perennials
- density
- western New South Wales
- Library Collection RecordPaddocks in a stocking rate trial at Mt Sanford, in the Victoria River District of the Northern Territory, were examined for factors that influenced the development of piospheres (zones of…Publication Date 2002
- grasslands
- paddocks
- stocking rate
- grazing management
- mineral supplements
- Northern Australia
- piosphere
- Library Collection RecordAbstract not Available.Publication Date 2002
- grasslands
- rangelands
- models
- Biophysics
- frameworks
- projects
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordMonitoring in rangelands needs to be conducted over prolonged time periods to discriminate changes due to grazing management from that due to the long term rainfall variation that is so…Publication Date 2002
- monitoring
- rangelands
- grazing management
- rainfall
- sheep
- grasslands
- plant density
- Northwest Queensland
- Library Collection RecordClimate has a large impact on vegetation and animal production in northern Australia. The length of the dry season, variable annual rainfall, extreme temperatures and high evaporation rates make…Publication Date 2002
- grasslands
- rainfall
- weather forecasting
- management
- pastures
- summer
- Northern Australia
- Library Collection RecordGeographic Information Systems (GIS) offer tools for examining grazing patterns in greater detail than previously. While general patterns such as patch grazing are documented in Mitchell grasslands…Publication Date 2002
- grazing management
- paddocks
- grasslands
- sheep
- soil
- pastures
- GIS
- geographic information systems
- Queensland
- Utilisation
- Library Collection RecordA strong ethos of independence is a well known characteristic of rangelands pastoral businesses. It is only in relatively recent times that pastoral businesses have begun participating in cooperative…Publication Date 2006
- pastoralism
- Businesses
- Group communication
- Independence.
- South Australia
- Library Collection RecordAbstract not available.Publication Date 2006
- projects
- desertification
- grasslands
- inner Mongolia
- international cooperation
- Library Collection RecordAbstract: Soil respiration is the major source of CO2 flux to the atmosphere in terrestrial systems.In tropical rangeland ecosystems disturbance regimes, such as cattle grazing and fire, impact soil…Publication Date 2012
- soil temperature
- soil moisture
- woodlands
- grasslands
- CO2
- Australia
- 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 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 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 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 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 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 RecordThe numbers and canopy size of shrubs and trees increased on the majority of Western AustralianRangeland Monitoring System (WARMS) sites in the arid and semi -arid shrublands of WesternAustralia over…Publication Date 2004
- pastoralism
- Arid
- recruits
- semi-arid
- Library Collection RecordThe Great Artesian Basin (GAB) is one of the world's largest artesian water reservoirs, and perhapsarid Australia's most important water resource. GAB springs and soaks provide crucial…Publication Date 2004
- Water reservoirs
- mining
- pastoralism