A fresh framework for the ecology of arid Australia

SR Morton, DMS Smith, CR Dickman… - Journal of Arid …, 2011‏ - Elsevier
A revised set of propositions about ecology in arid Australia is presented, based on research
literature since publication of Stafford Smith and Morton (1990). Fourteen propositions distil …

Principles and guidelines for managing cattle grazing in the grazing lands of northern Australia: stocking rates, pasture resting, prescribed fire, paddock size and water …

LP Hunt, JG McIvor, AC Grice, SG Bray - The Rangeland Journal, 2014‏ - CSIRO Publishing
Beef cattle grazing is the dominant land use in the extensive tropical and sub-tropical
rangelands of northern Australia. Despite the considerable knowledge on land and herd …

Traversing the wasteland: a framework for assessing ecological threats to drylands

DL Hoover, B Bestelmeyer, NB Grimm, TE Huxman… - …, 2020‏ - academic.oup.com
Drylands cover 41% of the Earth's terrestrial surface, play a critical role in global ecosystem
function, and are home to over two billion people. Like other biomes, drylands face …

Quantifying drylands' drought resistance and recovery: the importance of drought intensity, dominant life history and grazing regime

JC Ruppert, K Harmoney, Z Henkin… - Global Change …, 2015‏ - Wiley Online Library
Projected global change will increase the level of land‐use and environmental stressors
such as drought and grazing, particularly in drylands. Still, combined effects of drought and …

[ספר][B] Australia's biodiversity and climate change

W Steffen - 2009‏ - ebooks.publish.csiro.au
This assessment of the vulnerability of Australia's biodiversity to climate change was begun
in early 2007 in response to a request from the Natural Resource Management Ministerial …

Conservation program participation and adaptive rangeland decision-making

MN Lubell, BB Cutts, LM Roche, M Hamilton… - Rangeland Ecology & …, 2013‏ - Elsevier
This paper analyzes rancher participation in conservation programs in the context of a social-
ecological framework for adaptive rangeland decision-making. We argue that conservation …

Climate and desertification: looking at an old problem through new lenses

MM Verstraete, RJ Scholes… - Frontiers in Ecology and …, 2009‏ - Wiley Online Library
Global poverty, defined in almost any way, is disproportionately concentrated in the arid,
semiarid, and dry subhumid regions–the drylands–of the world. We suggest that the intrinsic …

The 'desert syndrome'–causally-linked factors that characterise outback Australia

MS Smith - The Rangeland Journal, 2008‏ - CSIRO Publishing
The desert knowledge community has been motivated by the assertion that outback
Australia is characterised by a set of features that are not individually unique, but which …

Grazing and aridity reduce perennial grass abundance in semi-arid rangelands–Insights from a trait-based dynamic vegetation model

M Pfeiffer, L Langan, A Linstädter, C Martens… - Ecological …, 2019‏ - Elsevier
Semi-arid tropical rangelands substantially contribute to livelihoods of subsistence farmers,
but are threatened by undesired vegetation shifts due to climate change and overgrazing …

[ספר][B] Flooded forest and desert creek: ecology and history of the river red gum

M Colloff - 2014‏ - books.google.com
The river red gum has the most widespread natural distribution of Eucalyptus in Australia,
forming extensive forests and woodlands in south-eastern Australia and providing the …