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- Library Collection RecordRangeland evaluation techniques used in Western Australia for assessing pasture condition and erosion status are described. The land system approach to land classification and the use of relic or…
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordThis material was digitized as part of a cooperative project between the Society for Range Management, the National Agricultural Library, and the University of Arizona Libraries. The Rangelands…Publication Date 1980-02-01
- stocking rates
- high rainfall zone
- pastoral zone
- wheat-sheep zone
- wool
- rainfall
- sheep production zones
- grazing management
- Australia
- rangeland
- sheep
- Library Collection RecordThis material was digitized as part of a cooperative project between the Society for Range Management, the National Agricultural Library, and the University of Arizona Libraries. The Rangelands…Publication Date 1980-04-01
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordThis material was digitized as part of a cooperative project between the Society for Range Management, the National Agricultural Library, and the University of Arizona Libraries. The Rangelands…Publication Date 1980-10-01
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordThis material was digitized as part of a cooperative project between the Society for Range Management, the National Agricultural Library, and the University of Arizona Libraries. The Rangelands…Publication Date 1982-04-01
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordThis material was digitized as part of a cooperative project between the Society for Range Management, the National Agricultural Library, and the University of Arizona Libraries. The Rangelands…Publication Date 1983-02-01
- arid zone
- cattle
- Australia
- vegetation
- livestock
- rangelands
- animal production
- meat production
- markets
- agricultural practices
- desertification
- forage
- beef
- Library Collection RecordThis material was digitized as part of a cooperative project between the Society for Range Management, the National Agricultural Library, and the University of Arizona Libraries. The Rangelands…Publication Date 1983-10-01
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordThis material was digitized as part of a cooperative project between the Society for Range Management, the National Agricultural Library, and the University of Arizona Libraries. The Rangelands…Publication Date 1990-08-01
- tropics
- arid lands
- Andropogon gayanus
- pasture plants
- Gamba grass
- Africa
- South America
- grasses
- Australia
- forage
- Library Collection RecordThis material was digitized as part of a cooperative project between the Society for Range Management, the National Agricultural Library, and the University of Arizona Libraries. The Rangelands…Publication Date 1994-10-01
- Macropodidae
- New South Wales
- species differences
- water intake
- Australia
- sheep
- wildlife management
- Library Collection RecordThe Rangelands archives are made available by the Society for Range Management and the University of Arizona Libraries. Contact lbry-journals@email.arizona.edu for further information. Migrated from…Publication Date 2001-10-01
- Australian Rangeland Society
- Asociacion Argentina de Manejo de Pastizales Naturales
- South America
- farmers' associations
- Australia
- Society for Range Management
- North America
- rangelands
- range management
- Library Collection RecordThe Rangelands archives are made available by the Society for Range Management and the University of Arizona Libraries. Contact lbry-journals@email.arizona.edu for further information. Migrated from…Publication Date 2002-02-01
- Australia
- agricultural education
- rangelands
- range management
- Library Collection RecordAbstract not availablePublication Date 1969
- Australia
- agricultural education
- rangelands
- range management
- Library Collection RecordAbstract not availablePublication Date 1990
- tropics
- Andropogon gayanus
- pasture plants
- Gamba grass
- Africa
- South America
- grasses
- Australia
- forage
- arid lands
- Library Collection RecordAbstract not availablePublication Date 1969
- Australia
- agricultural education
- rangelands
- range management
- Library Collection RecordMapping the distribution and abundance of invasive plants is a high priority, but establishing cost-effective and practical techniques at appropriate scales remains elusive. Mesquite is a highly…Publication Date 2007-07-01
- aerial surveys
- Australia
- invasive plants
- mapping
- monitoring costs
- remote sensing
- visual estimation techniques
- Library Collection RecordA spatial simulation model was developed to examine the community-level relationships between woody overstory and herbaceous understory. The influences of individual trees on herbaceous understory…Publication Date 1992-01-01
- Eucalyptus
- eucalyptus crebra
- Australia
- simulation models
- Prosopis glandulosa
- competitive ability
- understory
- mathematical models
- biomass production
- plant communities
- Library Collection RecordSerrated tussock (Nassella trichotoma), a grass native to South America, has been a major economic problem in the rangelands of southeastern Australia since 1950. It currently infests 680,000 ha in…Publication Date 1984-01-01
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordThe behaviour of free-ranging cattle on the Bogong High Plains, Victoria, was investigated during 2 summer grazing seasons. The main influence on cattle distribution was found to be their preferences…Publication Date 1983-11-01
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordThe chemical and botanical composition of the diets of esophageally fistulated sheep, cattle, and goats was monitored over a period of 1 year at intervals of approximately 2 months. The animals were…Publication Date 1982-01-01
- Australia
- semi-arid zone
- Library Collection RecordThe potential of barrel medic (Medicago truncatula) as a possible improved pasture legume for introduction to marginal cropping areas was examined with breeding Merino ewes at four stocking rates.…Publication Date 1976-07-01
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordThe main reason for examining grazing management as a means of controlling barley grass (Hordeum leporinum) was that in marginal areas between reliable cropping and true semiarid rangeland areas, it…Publication Date 1976-09-01
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordMeasurements and their statistical analysis are suggested and tested in the study of sheep distribution in an arid part of Australia. The use of aerial photography and an electronic computer make the…Publication Date 1967-03-01
- behavior patterns
- Sheep Distribution
- Mount Murchison
- Flock Size
- grazing animals
- patterns
- Times
- Australia
- New South Wales
- prediction
- aerial photography
- Kayrunnera
- Weather Conditions
- range condition
- sampling
- statistical analysis
- Library Collection RecordThis material was digitized as part of a cooperative project between the Society for Range Management and the University of Arizona Libraries. The Journal of Range Management archives are made…Publication Date 1962-11-01
- African Clovers
- Plant Introduction Program
- Baccarini
- Burchellianum
- Cheranganiense
- Polystachyum
- Pseudostriatum
- Rueppellianum
- Lancelolatum
- Semipilosum
- Steudneri
- Tembense
- Usumbarense
- Evaluating
- Australia
- temperature
- evaluation
- pastures
- Trifolium
- Kenya
- Library Collection RecordAbstract not availablePublication Date 2006
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordThe National Rangeland NRM Alliance (The Alliance) combines thirteen (13) rangeland NRM organisations and represents 80% of Australia’s land mass. The Alliance aims to improve the delivery of NRM…Publication Date 2010
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordThe Landsat satellite system and its data products are briefly described. Rangeland applications in the fields of resource inventory, monitoring of seasonal conditions and monitoring of ecological…Publication Date 1980
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordThis edition of The Rainmaker, the first electronic publication by the Altar Valley Conservation Alliance, provides an introduction to the valley and AVCA's activities in the area. Topics…Publication Date 2003
- Altar Valley
- Australia
- conservation
- fire management
- restoration
- United States
- Library Collection Record
28 Resilience
Resilience, published by the Quivira Coalition, is focused on current topics within the organization and its annual conference. Journal 39 2% Solutions for Hunger, Thirst and CO2 In this issue of…- Australia
- California
- New Mexico
- New York
- no-tillage
- Pennsylvania
- soil carbon
- solar energy
- sustainable agriculture
- sustainable ranching
- United States
- Library Collection RecordNo abstract is available for this article.Publication Date 2012
- Australia
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordThis paper describes a general economic analysis package, BURNECON, for evaluating the benefits and costs of using management burns to improve grazing potential in the semi-arid woodlands of eastern…Publication Date 1991
- management burns
- prescribed fire
- land management
- microcomputer
- decision support systems
- BURNECON
- Australia
- fire ecology
- management
- grazing
- indigenous encroaching species
- Economic Aspects
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThis paper describes a methodology of using data acquired by the European Meteosat and the Japanese Geostationary Meteorological Satellite (GMS) geostationary satellites to detect burned areas in…Publication Date 2003
- Burned areas
- Meteosat
- GMS
- Africa
- Australia
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordChromolaena odorata (L.) King & Robinson continues to spread through southeast Asia into the south Pacific, and into central and eastern Africa from the infestations in western and southern…Publication Date 1996
- Chromolaena odorata
- Siam weed
- Africa
- Asia
- Oceania
- Australia
- climate matching
- distribution
- Alien invasive species
- decision support systems
- Phytosociology
- management
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordSpatio-temporal variation in dung beetle distribution and cattle dung dispersal was quantified across a spectrum of summer rainfall habitat types in South Africa, i.e. grassland, open woodland and…Publication Date 1996
- Australia
- dung
- Pasture Improvement
- Scarabaeidae
- South Africa
- dung beetles
- ecosytem ecology
- soils
- rangeland condition
- rainfall
- grasslands
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordAnts are a prominent invertebrate group used to assess ecological change in response to disturbance. Their application as a bioindicator group has been particularly widespread in Australia, and a…Publication Date 2010
- Ants
- grazing
- Bioindicator
- land management
- Global patterns
- insects
- grasslands
- rangeland condition
- disturbance
- management
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordIn the seasonally dry tropics the productivity of grazing cattle is often constrained by nutrition, particularly during the dry season. An experiment during 2 annual cycles estimated the diet…Publication Date 2010
- diet selection
- Diet CP
- Diet DM digestibility
- animal nutrition
- animal production
- cattle
- forage quality
- north Queensland
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordOvergrazing and mismanagement of rangelands, climate change, drought and [`]salinisation of lands are threatening the sustainability of production systems and the fertility of cropping lands…Publication Date 2010
- Atriplex nummularia L.
- Fodder potential
- sheep
- goats
- Australia
- West Asia
- North Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe invasion of exotic grasses into savannas is occurring globally. Despite threats to ecosystem processes and biodiversity, few studies have investigated factors that facilitate invasion success. *…Publication Date 2013
- cattle grazing
- exotic grass
- facilitation
- grass-fire cycle
- savanna
- wind dispersal
- grazing
- Alien invasive species
- ecosystem ecology
- restoration ecology
- Cenchrus ciliaris
- grasses
- fire ecology
- grazing
- soils
- rainfall
- drought
- Queensland
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordTermites are estimated to contribute between 60;5 and 19% of the global methane (CH4) emissions. These estimates have large uncertainties because of the limited number of field-based studies and…Publication Date 2011
- Termites
- savanna
- Diurnal CH4 flux
- Seasonal CH4 flux
- Mound temperature
- Mound water content
- greenhouse gases
- insects
- November 2012
- Northern Territory
- Australia
- Library Collection Record1. While previous studies have demonstrated rapid evolution in introduced plants and animals, most focus on single species. They are therefore unable to show whether these are special cases, or if…Publication Date 2011
- Alien invasive species
- exotic plant
- herbarium specimen
- invasion ecology
- leaf area
- leaf mass per area
- leaf shape
- morphological change
- plant height
- New South Wales
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordStudies of facilitative interactions as drivers of plant richness along environmental gradients often assume the existence of an overarching stress gradient that equally affects the performance of…Publication Date 2011
- Competitive exclusion model
- Niche expansion
- Niche segregation
- plant-plant interactions
- Richness-biomass relationship
- Stress-gradient hypothesis
- species diversity
- ecosystem ecology
- rainfall
- Spain
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordA 2-year whole-farm study compared pasture-based systems increasing milk production per ha by increasing either stocking rate (from 2·5 to 3·8 cows/ha) or milk yield per cow (from 6000 to 9000 kg/…Publication Date 2011
- management
- economics
- milk yield
- stocking rate
- pasture
- grazing
- dairy cows
- dairy farm
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordDespite the widespread recognition that disturbance by livestock affects multiple indices of landscape health, few studies have examined their effects on both biotic and abiotic processes. We…Publication Date 2011
- disturbance
- grazing gradient
- landscape function
- overgrazing
- plant diversity
- reptiles
- grazing
- livestock
- soils
- ecosystem ecology
- rangelands
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordThe use of surrogates for biodiversity is a practical tool to improve the cost effectiveness of regional conservation planning. However, there is still much uncertainty about the biological…Publication Date 2011
- disjunction
- ecological barriers
- Mitchell Landscapes
- regional conservation
- Surrogate
- biodiversity
- conservation
- management
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordThe conservation values of old-growth forests in landscapes subject to repeated disturbance by fire or logging have received considerable conservation attention. However, little is known of the…Publication Date 2011
- ant biodiversity
- Fire exclusion
- fire management
- old-growth forest
- Territory Wildlife Parkfire ecology
- conservation
- management
- fire ecology
- savanna
- invertebrates
- Ants
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordThe intake of forage grasses by grazing ruminants is closely related to the mechanical fracture properties of grasses. The relationship between the tensile fracture properties of grasses and foraging…Publication Date 2011
- forage quality
- grazing
- foraging ecololgy
- tropical grass
- tensile fracture
- tiller development
- Stem
- Leaf
- toughness
- Phenological Stage
- Townsville
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordAnts are considered an important faunal group for the functioning of arid rangelands, they have a long history of use for environmental monitoring, and exhibit four global patterns in grazing lands…Publication Date 2011
- biodiversity
- Bioindicator
- chenopod shrubland
- disturbance
- Formicidae
- grazing impacts
- Mulga
- piosphere
- Ants
- invertebrates
- rangelands
- monitoring
- grazing
- management
- restoration ecology
- Australia
- Library Collection Record1. Clonal plants benefit from the ability to translocate resources among interconnected ramets to colonize heterogeneous habitats. Clonal integration affects the resource level and morphological…Publication Date 2010
- Alien invasive species
- ecosystem ecology
- Alternanthera philoxeroides
- Biological invasion
- chlorophyll
- nitrogen
- photosynthesis
- photosynthetic acclimation
- Phyla canescens
- physiological integration
- respiration
- Translocation
- Queensland
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordFifteen native and common exotic herbaceous species from four functional groups (C4 grass, C3 grass, chamaephyte and hemicryptophyte) occurring within remnant and revegetated grassland and grassy…Publication Date 2014
- arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi
- ecological restoration
- grasslands
- grassy woodlands
- revegetation
- restoration ecology
- seeds
- Victoria
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordThe exclusion of regular fire and the introduction of livestock grazing have altered native grassland composition on Victoria's volcanic plains, commonly resulting in spear-grass and wallaby-…Publication Date 2014
- natural temperate grassland of the Victorian volcanic plains
- stable states
- transition
- fire ecology
- restoration ecology
- grazing
- grasslands
- indigenous encroaching species
- Victoria
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordIn obligate seeding species, the germination niche is crucial for colonization and population survival. It is a high-risk phase in a plant's life cycle, and is directly regulated by temperature…Publication Date 2011
- climate change
- germination niche
- seed germination
- south-west Australia
- temperature gradient plate
- vulnerability
- management
- Australia