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- Library Collection RecordAbstract not availablePublication Date 1992
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordThe discussions of our conference in which we are about to engage, coming shortly after the release of the draft National Strategy for Rangeland Management, represent the first national gathering of…Publication Date 1996
- rangelands
- management
- stakeholders
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordThis paper describes the process of developing a national strategy for the management of Australian rangelands. A draft vision and views of stakeholders are shared and next steps for future…Publication Date 1996
- rangelands
- management
- strategies
- stakeholders
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordIndigenous rights need to be acknowledged for traditional cultures to survive. The uniqueness of Australia's indigenous cultures is threatened by a number of factors. A key element to…Publication Date 1996
- rangelands
- Indigenous knowledge
- land management
- projects
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordThe need to improve the conservation status of Australian agricultural and pastoral land is one of the most compelling challenges for Australia in the 1990s. It is time to start managing this country…Publication Date 1996
- rangelands
- ecosystems
- management
- conservation (storage)
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordContinuing the balance between conservation and development is our goal for the friture. Development is integral and fundamental to our future. The minerals industry should embrace the concept of…Publication Date 1996
- stakeholders
- production
- mining
- water
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordThe property will have a secure lease or ownership and its owners will have implemented a long-term property management plan. They will ensure that their animals and environment are well presented…Publication Date 1996
- rangelands
- Property
- Living conditions
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordThe Australian rangelands are changing rapidly under the influence of social, economic, political and environmental forces. The prevailing political climate favours markets as a means of achieving…
- Sustainable development
- economics
- resources
- conservation (storage)
- Australia
- 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 RecordWithin the rangelands the resources for human development are limited.Our vision for the future must take into consideration the actualities of the situations for aboriginal people including…Publication Date 1996
- rangelands
- resources
- Needs
- Aboriginal People
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordThings are crook in the bush! The weather fluctuates, but indexed commodity prices and social stability continue to decline. I want to suggest a way by which we could take greater control of our…Publication Date 1996
- information technology
- networks
- communication
- rural areas
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordAustralia's rangelands are experiencing a radical re- evaluation of natural resources, with declining commodity values and enhanced amenity values. Pastoral dominance is being displaced by…Publication Date 1996
- rangelands
- Regional development
- natural resources
- strategies
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordWe outline the results of recent work aimed at determining the impact of grazing on biodiversity of the arid and semi-arid rangelands. We examined changes in the abundance and species composition of…Publication Date 1996
- biodiversity
- grazing
- water
- biodiversity
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordSites were established on three grazing properties on the northern tablelands of NSW to determine the comparative effects of cell and continuous grazing on the botanical composition of pastures.…Publication Date 1996
- botanical composition
- Australia
- cell grazing
- continuous grazing systems
- Library Collection RecordA recent national project collaborated with pastoralists and extension personnel around Australia to examine the financial implications of different approaches to coping with drought. This process…Publication Date 1996
- stocking rate
- projects
- management
- drought
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordThis paper examines the historical evidence for the widely held view that vegetation communities in the semi-arid woodlands were significantly more open prior to European settlement. It is postulated…Publication Date 1996
- vegetation
- shrubs
- woodlands
- Regulations
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordHerbivore distribution and biomass were assessed in a south-west Queensland mulga paddock where a boredrain and semi-permanent earth tanks were used to water stock. Distance to fencelines and waters…Publication Date 1996
- herbivores
- fences
- water
- distribution
- South-West Queensland
- Library Collection RecordIn Australia, as in other developed countries, rural industries are responding to increasing pressure to demonstrate their environmental credentials. At the same time, there is an increasing trend…Publication Date 1996
- land use
- management
- frameworks
- sustainability
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordThe sexual expression of over 600 shrubs in two South Australian bladder saltbush populations was recorded at intervals during a two-year period. Almost half the individuals were found to change…Publication Date 1996
- shrubs
- Atriplex
- Sexual dimorphism
- South Australia
- Library Collection RecordUluru has been the site of intense tourist activity since the early 1960s, much of which was uncontrolled in the early years. The result was the development of a number of access tracks and partly…Publication Date 1996
- tourism
- models
- management
- hydrology
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordWhen trees or shrubs increase in density pasture production is reduced and a sustainable economic and ecological base may be lost. The increasing woody weed problem in the northern Alice Springs…Publication Date 1996
- Ploughing
- Scrub
- carrying capacity
- methods
- Alice Springs region
- Library Collection RecordThe sustainability of an area depends entirely on how we manage the precipitation, the time of year it falls and the quantity of rain. Each land manager has many different grass communities unique…Publication Date 1996
- rangelands
- sustainability
- grazing management
- Central Australia
- Library Collection RecordThe objective was to establish whether reliable intake and digestibility estimates could be obtained under range conditions using n-alkanes. Goats both browse and graze, which makes the use of n-…Publication Date 1996
- rangelands
- digestibility
- grazing
- alkanes
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordWe quantified the effect of high levels of wiregrass in buffel grass pasture on sheep growth over 2 years at Roma. Despite using very high stocking rates compared to district norms, animal…Publication Date 1996
- pastures
- sheep
- grasses
- stocking rate
- Australia
- Wiregrass
- Library Collection RecordRelationships between the cover of grasses and of woody vegetation were determined in 1991 on four landforms in the Louth region of semi-arid eastern Australia and werefound to differ between…Publication Date 1996
- vegetation
- woody plants
- Weeds
- burning
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordThe influence of patches on the foraging behaviour and feed intake of cattle was investigated in a tropical rangeland environment, north-east Queensland. Areas mown to simulate grazed patches were…Publication Date 1996
- cattle
- feed intake
- paddocks
- grazing
- Queensland
- Library Collection RecordEnvironmental and economic pressures have resulted in previously cropped country being reestablished to native pastures in semi -arid areas of north -western NSW. Grazing systems have been considered…Publication Date 1996
- grazing systems
- soil
- vegetation
- Pressure
- New South Wales
- Library Collection RecordTwenty-two ecotypes of mulga mitchell (Thyridolepis mitchelliana) and 20 ecotypes of mulga oats (Monachather paradoxa) grown under glasshouse conditions exhibited intra-specific phenotypic variation…Publication Date 1996
- ecotypes
- Glasshouses
- grasses
- Queensland
- variation
- Library Collection RecordThe Remote Video Unit (RVU) is a self -contained, stand -alone unit designed to provide information on the interaction and behaviour patterns of sheep, cattle, feral goats and kangaroos using water…Publication Date 1996
- traps
- animals
- movement
- Gates
- Australia
- video
- Library Collection RecordThe loss of nutrients and soil has a dramatic impact on land use because rainfall in central Australia is often the result of storms.They are banks surveyed to hold water. Besides, roads often…Publication Date 1996
- water
- land use
- roads
- Flow rate
- Central Australia
- Library Collection RecordLiveweight gain performance for steers grazing black speargrass (Iteropogon contortus) dominant pastures has been measured over 5 years within a large grazing trial in sub-tropical Queensland under…Publication Date 1996
- drought
- trials
- liveweight
- black speargrass
- Queensland
- Library Collection RecordThe persistence of desirable species in a pasture is essential for sustainability and animal production. Therefore, it is necessary to document how grazing and land type (land class) influence the…Publication Date 1996
- stocking rate
- Pressure
- grazing
- Land levelling
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordAs part of two major grazing trials in sub-tropical Queensland, runoff and soil movement were recorded at a detailed (m2) and landscape (ha) scale. The effect of grazing pressure on soil movement by…Publication Date 1996
- runoff
- soil movement
- landscape
- grazing trials
- Queensland
- Library Collection Record
234 Bestprac
Queensland beef and sheep producers, the Queensland Department of Primary Industries (QDPI) and the International Wool Secretariat (IWS), with participation from CSIRO and NSW Agriculture, joined…Publication Date 1996- Wool industry
- Workshops
- training
- Bestprac
- Queensland
- Library Collection RecordMany graziers could make better use of climatic information. The Queensland Department of Natural Resources and Department of Primary Industries are collaborating with the Bureau of Meteorology to…Publication Date 1996
- Management information systems
- climate data
- tools
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordFeathertop is a major pest of the Mitchell grasslands. Spring burning was trialled as a potential method of control. Feathertop seed production, tiller number, survival and basal diameter were…Publication Date 1996
- Pests
- burning
- reduction
- feathertop
- Mitchell grasslands
- Library Collection RecordAustralia's bush food industry is currently worth ,85 million at the farm gate. Two rangeland plants, the desert lime (Eremocitrus glauca) and wild thyme (Ocimum tenuiflorum) have potential…Publication Date 1996
- plants
- species
- Food industry
- Australia
- Bush
- Library Collection RecordEarly measurements of cattle growth rates on native pasture in the black speargrass region indicated only modest potential for beef production (80 to 100 kg LWG/head/yr). To provide a contemporary…Publication Date 1996
- cattle
- animal production
- liveweight
- paddocks
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordPOPMIX is a computer-based stocking-rate calculator that estimates carrying capacities of rangeland stocked with one or more types of large herbivore. Based on forage availability, prediction of…Publication Date 1996
- rangelands
- stocking rate
- rangelands
- Australia
- calculator
- Library Collection RecordAbastract not Available.Publication Date 1996
- rangelands
- cultivars
- varieties
- eastern Australia
- Marginal Croplands
- Mitchell grass
- semi-arid
- Library Collection RecordWe intend to provide an objective account of the history of land condition in two pastoral areas of South Australia - the North-East Pastoral and Marree Soil Conservation Districts (SCDs). We have…Publication Date 1996
- rangelands
- soil conservation
- Data
- land condition
- South Australia
- Library Collection RecordWe show how the magnitude of vegetation response to major rainfalls can be determined from satellite data and be used to produce scaled paddock maps of landscape resilience. These maps assist in…Publication Date 1996
- satellites
- mapping
- rainfall
- land management
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordThe quantitative climax and its successional (equilibrium) dynamics is questioned for rangelands driven by unpredictable climatic events. An alternative model is that of state and transition (driven…Publication Date 1996
- climatic factors
- monitoring
- Equilibrium theory
- range management
- Queensland
- Library Collection RecordIn an attempt to provide a simple and standard procedure for documenting seasonal conditions which does not rely on rainfall reports from isolated recording stations, a non-destructive, field-based…Publication Date 1996
- seasons
- measurement
- pastures
- species
- northern Alice Springs district
- Library Collection RecordOne aspect of monitoring grazing systems is the condition of the natural resource. Photos show broad changes such as the reduction of rubber vine (Cryptostegia grandiflorum) byfire. Estimates of…Publication Date 1996
- natural resources
- grazing management
- monitoring
- photography
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordPlant composition (relative frequency) and ground cover data were collected from typically grazed black speargrass (Heteropogon contortus) and Aristida/Bothriochloa pasture community sites in the…Publication Date 1996
- plants
- ground cover plants
- woodlands
- composition
- Queensland
- Library Collection RecordAnalysis of the WARMS monitoring data has been carried out to determine trends in vegetation condition across the Western Australian southern shrublands. Results suggest that a small number of…Publication Date 1996
- vegetation
- management
- monitoring
- changes
- Western Australia
- Library Collection RecordWoody weeds are native shrubs which grow to high densities in rangelands and compete with grasses, consequently reducing the availability of fodder, lowering grazing capacity and ultimately reducing…Publication Date 1996
- monitoring
- Landsat images
- shrubs
- satellite imagery
- New South Wales
- Library Collection RecordThis paper reports the preliminary results of studies on patch development in ground cover and its association with soil microbial biomass carbon (MB) at three sites near Charters Towers in north…Publication Date 1996
- paddocks
- soil
- Biological Capacity
- grazing pressure
- north Queensland
- Library Collection RecordThe land resources of pastoral properties representative of the Alice Springs region of the Northern Territory are being mapped and management strategies for the different land types are being…Publication Date 1996
- land
- management
- mapping
- resources
- north Australia
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