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- 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 RecordAbstract Fire is an integral component of tropical savannas, but is often actively excluded from commercially grazed systems in northern Australia. The Kidman Springs Fire Trial (Victoria River…Publication Date 2012
- grazing
- Australia
- fire management
- tropical savannas
- Library Collection RecordAbstract Savanna burning contributes between 2-4% annually to Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions accounts. However, fire is a natural process and a key land management tool in the northern…Publication Date 2012
- diversification
- Australia
- carbon farming
- savanna burning
- Library Collection RecordFor rangeland areas that have been set aside for conservation, ecosystem processes can be restored by re-introducing native fauna that dig while foraging.This study investigated the effects of bilby…Publication Date 2012
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordTropical savannas are the world's most fire-prone biome, and savanna biotas are generally well adapted to frequent fire. However, in northern Australia there are concerns that recent increases…Publication Date 2012
- ant
- fire regime
- fire resilience
- frequent fire
- small mammal
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordMallee-heath and mallee communities occur in a mosaic across large areas of south-western Australia, in topographically subdued and fire-prone landscapes. Consequently, it could be expected that…Publication Date 2012
- fire ecology
- carbon sequestration
- fire interval
- initial floristic composition
- mallee
- senescence
- succession
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordThe relative effects of tree clearing, increased livestock densities and nutrient enrichment have rarely been compared across markedly different organism types, but negative effects are generally…Publication Date 2012
- agriculture
- livestock
- Native Pasture
- nutrient enrichment
- rotational grazing
- woodland
- 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 RecordPublication Date 2011
- forage
- feeds
- Feed Crops
- grasses
- Feed grasses
- pastures
- Natural pastures
- grasslands
- meadows
- productivity
- yields
- Library Collection RecordPublication Date 2011
- forage
- grassland management
- simulation
- grazing systems
- simulation
- Library Collection RecordPublication Date 2011
- harvesting
- cultivation
- pastures
- grazing lands
- productivity
- Properties
- Economic Value
- biological production
- natural resources
- resources
- forage
- Feed Crops
- efficiency
- genetic soil types
- density
- chemicophysical properties
- Library Collection RecordPublication Date 2011
- Sudan
- forage
- rangelands
- vegetation
- management
- developmental stages
- grassland management
- biomass
- nutritive value
- vegetation
- Sudan
- Library Collection RecordPublication Date 2011
- phenology
- forage
- livestock
- species
- grazing
- grazing systems
- Library Collection RecordPublication Date 2011
- forage
- rangelands
- simulation
- stability
- pastures
- Bromus
- simulation
- Bromus
- Bromus
- Library Collection RecordPublication Date 2011
- Thailand
- grassland management
- forage
- livestock management
- animal husbandry
- Library Collection RecordPublication Date 2011
- rain
- canopy
- forage
- production
- steppes
- production
- Library Collection RecordPublication Date 2011
- meadows
- herbicides
- forage
- yields
- Library Collection RecordPublication Date 2011
- forage
- quality
- goats
- rangelands
- 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 RecordPublication Date 2011
- rangelands
- forage
- biogeography
- Bromus
- Festuca ovina
- Bromus
- Festuca ovina
- Bromus
- Festuca ovina
- 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 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 RecordEcological patterns and processes are highly scale-dependent, but few studies have used standardized methodology to examine how scale dependency varies across continents. This paper examines scale…Publication Date 2011
- beta diversity
- biogeography
- community structure
- Formicidae
- scale dependency
- Ants
- invertebrates
- savanna
- ecosystem ecology
- Australia
- Brazil
- 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
- 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 RecordPublication Date 2011
- species
- forage
- uses
- ecosystems
- grazing
- Agropyron
- Astragalus
- Agropyron
- Astragalus
- Agropyron
- Astragalus
- Library Collection RecordPublication Date 2011
- species
- forage
- uses
- Artemisia
- Salsola
- grazing
- Artemisia
- Salsola
- Artemisia
- Salsola
- 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 Wambiana trial was established in December 1997 near Charters Towers to objectively test how a range of grazing strategies cope with climate variability. To ensure relevance to the grazing…Publication Date 2011
- Queensland
- Field Trials
- pasture management
- 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 RecordGrazeIn is a model for predicting herbage intake and milk production of grazing dairy cows. The objectives of this paper are to test its robustness according to a planned arrangement of grazing and…Publication Date 2011
- animal production
- forage
- management
- grazing
- dairy cow
- herbage intake
- milk production
- modelling
- simulation
- Validation
- Europe
- Library Collection RecordPublication Date 2010
- grasslands
- alpine grasslands
- forage
- species
- losses
- communities
- stability
- drying
- meadows
- Library Collection RecordPublication Date 2010
- harvesting frequency
- forage
- rangeland soils
- Festuca ovina
- Medicago lupulina
- Festuca ovina
- Medicago lupulina
- Festuca ovina
- Medicago lupulina
- 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 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 RecordInvasive plants have invaded swathes of grasslands in Lake Nakuru National Park thus necessitating the Park management to institute measures to control them. Despite this, information on the status…Publication Date 2010
- biomass
- crude protein
- density
- forage
- grasslands
- invasive plants
- management
- ecosystem ecology
- Forage Quantity
- forage quality
- Kenya
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe survival of perennial grass plants in drought is of scientific and applied interest; scientists want to know why species differ in ability to cope with individual and combined stresses of drought…Publication Date 2010
- Australia
- New South Wales
- Plant Death
- semi-arid grasslands
- tillers
- Library Collection RecordThe Western Catchment Management Authority (CMA) works with local people to improve the management of natural resources. In line with the government’s ‘Caring for Our Country’ priorities we…Publication Date 2010
- sustainable land management
- aboriginal knowledge systems
- aboriginal language groups
- Australia
- New South Wales
- Library Collection RecordPublication Date 2010
- grazing intensity
- quality
- forage
- phenology
- life cycle
- Library Collection RecordPublication Date 2010
- nutritive value
- grassland management
- forage
- carrying capacity
- steppes
- rangelands
- Library Collection RecordSavanna covers about two-thirds of Africa, with forage quantity and quality being important factors determining the distribution and density of wildlife and domestic stock. Testing hypotheses about…Publication Date 2010
- forage
- quality
- remote sensing
- hyperspectral
- herbivory
- Foliar
- nitrogen
- protein
- Polyphenol
- mopane
- savanna
- forage quality
- Forage Quantity
- livestock
- mapping
- management
- land use
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordPublication Date 2010
- Dairy cattle
- grazing systems
- forage
- animal production
- Feed grasses
- grassland management
- cultivation
- Farms
- monitoring
- agricultural extension
- 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 RecordThis publication is intended to encourage and guide the consideration of rangelands natural resource management issues in national strategies and other relevant work by the NRMMC. It outlines key…Publication Date 2010
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordPublication Date 2010
- biomass
- forage
- pellets
- grasslands
- rivers
- ecology
- Experimentation
- Experimentation
- Library Collection RecordPublication Date 2010
- rangelands
- quality
- forage
- phenology
- crude protein
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