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- Library Collection RecordThe VegMachine software was developed in 2002 by a national team of RD&E providers, and funded by Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA). The software was designed primarily as a vegetation cover…Publication Date 2015
- remote sensing
- Australia
- ground cover
- Queensland
- remote sensing
- VegMachine
- 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 RecordAt the CSIRO Division of Land Resources Management, Deniliquin, a project to identify the impact of economic, administrative, and social influences on rangeland management has begun. This paper…Publication Date 2014
- Australia
- New South Wales
- Library Collection RecordIt has been said in the last few years that the management of rangelands must proceed through three stages:- (1) An inventory of the natural resources; (2) Determination of the successional stage of…Publication Date 2014
- Australia
- Central Australia
- inventory
- natural resources
- Library Collection RecordAs a textbook, the volume is well organised, with introductory chapters on the scope and key concepts of restoration ecology, followed by chapters on its ecological foundations – landscape,…Publication Date 2014
- restoration ecology
- Europe
- USA
- Australia
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordIn order to assess the current level of stock watering facilities on pastoral properties within the western Riverina, and to relate this information to paddock size and vegetation type, large areas…Publication Date 2014
- Australia
- New South Wales
- Paddock
- Riverina district
- stock water supplies
- Library Collection RecordThe mitchell grass pastures of northern New South Wales are economically important to the grazing industry and occur mainly in the 375 mm to 475 mm annual rainfall zone. Expansion of the wheatbelt…Publication Date 2014
- Australia
- cultivation
- Grazing Industry
- Mitchell grass
- Northern New South Wales
- Library Collection RecordThe expansion of cropping into pastoral country of south -west New South Wales is discussed, along with an examination of the types of country involved. Bare fallowing is a practice necessary in…Publication Date 2014
- Australia
- Cropping
- marginal lands
- Southwest New South Wales
- Library Collection RecordThe Problem of Woody Weeds Woody weeds ( "scrub regrowth ") are the main cause of reduced productivity over large areas of western N.S.W. There are many genera and species involved in the…Publication Date 2014
- Australia
- chemical control
- western New South Wales
- woody weeds
- Library Collection RecordThe pre -settlement fire regime had a major influence on vegetation. Pastoral activities significantly modified the fire regime by altering the vegetation, the suppression of wildfires and deliberate…Publication Date 2014
- Australia
- control
- prescribed burns
- western New South Wales
- wildfires
- Library Collection RecordThe green standing material,dry standing material and litter in the herbaceous layer of a Central Australian woodland were sampled using sets of nested quadrats of various proportions. By minimising…Publication Date 2014
- Australia
- biomass
- Central Australia
- herbaceous vegetation
- woodland
- Library Collection RecordNo abstract is available for this article.Publication Date 2014
- conservation
- biodiversity
- Library Collection RecordThe problems confronting those concerned with the management of wildlife, particularly the larger species of wildlife such as kangaroos, are similar to the problems of those involved in range…Publication Date 2014
- Australia
- New South Wales
- northwestern New South Wales
- Library Collection RecordQuestion The co-existence of woody plants and grasses characterize savannas, with the horizontal and vertical spatial arrangement of trees creating a heterogeneous biotic environment. To understand…Publication Date 2014
- Carnegie Airborne Observatory
- heterogeneity
- LiDAR
- Object-based image classification
- vegetation structure
- woody vegetation
- savanna
- remote sensing
- biodiversity
- conservation
- mapping
- management
- monitoring
- vegetation analysis
- Sabi Sand Wildtuin and Kruger National Park
- Mpumalanga province
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordFire occurs infrequently in Australia's most extensive plant community, the mulga lands (see map 3, Moore 1970) . Under present management, the average interval between fires would be in the…Publication Date 2014
- Australia
- controversial
- Eastern Rangelands
- fire
- Mulga Communities
- New South Wales
- Queensland
- Library Collection RecordAbstract Invasive alien plants pose a threat to biodiversity worldwide, and the costs of control are ever-escalating. Early detection and prediction of areas potentially at risk is crucial to…Publication Date 2014
- Invasive alien species
- Potential distribution
- Occurrence data
- Species distribution modeling
- Maxent
- biodiversity
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe European rabbit, Oryctolagus cuniculus, was the last of the feral mammals to reach Central Australia. The rabbit had reached the N.T. border from NW South Australia in small numbers by 1901 (…Publication Date 2014
- abundance
- Australia
- Central Australia
- distribution
- European Rabbits
- Northern Territory
- Oryctolagus cuniculus
- rabbits
- South Australia
- Library Collection RecordA number of different criteria have been used to determine the response of rangeland to management and as an index of range condition (Parker,1954). The most common methods involve estimates of the…Publication Date 2014
- Australia
- New South Wales
- rangeland grasses
- Library Collection RecordThe amount and type of labour used on pastoral properties in the north east of South Australia is examined. Two different strategies in the amount of labour employed to handle the same number of…Publication Date 2014
- Australia
- Labour
- Northeast of South Australia
- pastoral properties
- Library Collection RecordThe initial study program relating to reclamation of the hard eroded ridges of the Cobar Pediplain, has recently been completed at Cobar Experimental Area.
 The studies involved treatment of the…Publication Date 2014
- Australia
- Cobar Experimantal Area
- New South Wales
- Library Collection RecordAustralian Rangelands users go into the 1980's in trepidation. Firstly they are the victims of a vicious circle that has been with us since "indexation" was brought in. The escalating…Publication Date 2014
- Australia
- co-exist
- indexation
- trepidation
- Library Collection RecordExplorers records of inland Australia indicate that much of today's pastoral zone was subject to wind and water erosion before the lend was subjected to domestic stock. Australia's…Publication Date 2014
- arid land degradation
- Australia
- erosion
- pastoral regions
- Library Collection RecordSurface runoff was recorded from small plots situated in the mulga rangelands of Queensland. Even small falls of rain ( <15 mm) produced runoff equivalent to over 50% of the rain. Plant tussocks…Publication Date 2014
- Amelorating effect
- Australia
- plant cover
- Queensland
- rainfall
- runoff
- Library Collection RecordSurface runoff in the mulga (AcaciaaneuraF.Muel.) lands of south western Quensland was recorded from small plots using both natural and artificial rainfall. Runoff was higher from the hard mulga and…Publication Date 2014
- artificial rainfall
- Australia
- Mulga
- runoff
- South Western Queensland
- Library Collection RecordIn the summer of 1974 -75 wildfires burnt 3.75 million ha of rangeland country in western New South Wales. Most of this was in woodland vegetation mallee, belah or bimble box, where many of the…Publication Date 2014
- Australia
- western New South Wales
- Library Collection RecordThe effect of climate and grazing by rabbits on black bluebush Maireana pyramidata seedlings growing on sand dunes and scalded loam flats was studied over a four- year period near Meninde, N.S.W.…Publication Date 2014
- Australia
- Black Bluebush
- Maireana Pyramidata
- rabbits
- western New South Wales
- Library Collection RecordRunoff and soil water have been measured on differently managed areas of shrub invaded semi -arid woodland near Coolabah, in north-western N.S.W. Measurements commenced in spring of 1975 and are…Publication Date 2014
- Australia
- northwestern New South Wales
- Library Collection RecordSheep diet at a plant species level for seven occasions during 1974 -76 is presented for a woodland community under four different managements. The wide variation in grazing preference with…Publication Date 2014
- Australia
- New South Wales
- semi-arid
- woodland
- Library Collection RecordControl of animal numbers is the most important management tool available for use on extensive pastoral lands. Other complementary tools include the control of animal distribution through the…Publication Date 2014
- Australia
- grazing capacity
- Library Collection RecordHistorically, livestock have been the main method of converting rangeland production into financial returns. It is possible that livestock will continue in this role, for the major portion of…Publication Date 2014
- Australia
- livestock
- Library Collection RecordThe effect of certain land tenure requirements and the influence of death duties on pastoral business structures in far south west Queensland is outlined. Seventy -four percent of sheep…Publication Date 2014
- Australia
- South West Queensland
- Library Collection RecordNumerous lists of plant species, ranging from excursion notes to ecological surveys, have been published in New South Wales during the last one hundred years (Pickard 1972). The more detailed of…Publication Date 2014
- Australia
- Central-Western New South Wales
- pastures
- trangie
- Library Collection RecordChanges in cover afforded by sandhill canegrass (Zygochloaparadoxa) have been studied on a low dune near Menindee in Western New South Wales for 23 years. Areal cover of live and dead culms has…Publication Date 2014
- Australia
- Dunes
- Sandhill Canegrass
- western New South Wales
- Library Collection RecordAustralia's Rangelands include the Arid Zone, occupying 70 percent of the continent, and native, or natural pastures in the higher rainfall districts. This paper is concerned with the latter…Publication Date 2014
- Australia
- Dumaresq River
- Gwydir River
- Macintyre River
- Namoi River
- New South Wales
- Northern Tablelands
- water yield
- Library Collection RecordThe relative importance of breed versus rearing experience on the grazing behaviour and diet selection of beef cattle when grazing unimproved grassland was examined over 4 years. Suckler-reared…Publication Date 2014
- foraging ecology
- cattle
- grazing
- grassland
- management
- Nature conservation
- breed
- rearing experience
- grazing behaviour
- diet preference
- biodiversity
- North Wyke
- Devon UK
- Library Collection RecordLand system mapping of the resources of the arid and semi-arid lands in Queensland is continuing. To date, some 31 million hectares of pastoral land have been mapped. The reports, have either been…Publication Date 2014
- Australia
- hectares
- rangeland inventories
- 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 RecordResults are presented of a survey of costs, returns and profitability in the Eastern Mulga Land Resource Region of south -west Queensland. It was based on seven mixed sheep - cattle properties…Publication Date 2014
- Australia
- Mulga Survey
- South-West Queensland
- Library Collection RecordThis study examines contact between twelve large Australian Pastoral Companies and the Queensland Department of Primary Industries (QDPI). Most contact is with the veterinary services branch.…Publication Date 2014
- Australia
- Australian Pastoral Companies
- Queensland
- state department
- Library Collection RecordThis book tackles an increasingly crucial question: What can we do about the seemingly intractable challenges confronting all of humanity today, including climate change, global hunger, water…Publication Date 2014
- biodiversity
- carbon sequestration
- climate change
- Composting
- conservation
- no-tillage
- soil carbon
- United States
- water scarcity
- Watershed Restoration
- Library Collection RecordIt is readily understood that when natural grasslands and shrublands are grazed there will be some changes in the plant community. The more permanent changes, arising from the loss of some plant…Publication Date 2014
- Australia
- New South Wales
- Library Collection RecordRecent opposition to the rangeland management paradigm of achieving uniform, moderate grazing across entire landscapes has emerged because heterogeneity is recognized as the foundation of…Publication Date 2013-09-01
- biodiversity
- conservation of pattern and process
- heterogeneity
- landscapes patch burning
- pyric herbivory
- vegetation structure
- 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 RecordAbstract Several multi-year biodiversity experiments have shown positive species richness-productivity relationships which strengthen over time, but the mechanisms which control productivity are not…Publication Date 2013
- biomass production
- Community mean traits
- environmental filtering
- functional diversity
- niche differentiation
- Species identity
- biodiversity
- grasslands
- community analysis
- vegetation dynamics
- species richness
- plant production
- ecosystem ecology
- Thuringia
- Germany