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Native Vegetation and Biodiversity Program Publications

A Landscape Approach to Determine the Ecological Value of Paddock Trees

Summary Report Years 1 and 2

This project aimed to assess the ecological value of scattered paddock trees at a landscape scale, using two approaches. This first was to undertake an intensive mapping program for two study areas in South Australia, equating to an area of 378,000 hectares, and the second to undertake a field study to assess how birds use paddock trees at various levels of tree cover.

Answers to Environmental Questions

1/05/2004

This Audio CD containing interviews with leading researchers focuses on research and investigation into native vegetation management funded by Land & Water Australia.

Interviews can also be heard online at

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ANU 34 - Final Report - May 2006

ANU 34 will generate high quality and widely applicable data to guide landscape restoration that maximizes biodiversity conservation. To achieve this, the principal aim will be to estimate the effects of tree planting on vertebrates (birds, mammals, repti

Assessing biodiversity outcomes from waterpoint interventions in the patchy, gibber-gilgai arid rangelands

“Domestic and feral herbivores need daily access to water during summer, and every few days during winter. The risk to biodiversity and ecosystem function depends on the type of herbivore activity, its intensity, and how long an area is exposed to grazing and seasonal conditions (rainfall). We explore whether waterpoint manipulation is a useful management tool for achieving biodiversity and ecosystem outcomes in the arid grazing lands of remote Australia. We used the (more)...

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Assessing Biodiversity Outcomes from Waterpoint Management in the SA Arid Rangelands

This project studies the merit of waterpoint management to deliver on-ground biodiversity outcomes on cattle stations
using a mixed design approach. Key deliverables include indices of biodiversity condition and management
achievement, regional biodiver

Beyond roads, rates and rubbish

opportunities for local government to conserve native vegetation.

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Biodiversity and Land Condition in Tropical Savanna Rangelands

Summary Report

There are well-established procedures for assessing and monitoring “land condition” in Australian rangelands, but no programs that explicitly monitor biodiversity. The primary aim of this project was to explore the link between land conditi

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Biodiversity and Land Condition in Tropical Savanna Rangelands

Technical Report

There is now a strong demand for robust and practical methods of assessing biodiversity status at a variety of scales in Australian rangelands. This is driven by an increasing expectation that Australian rangelands will be managed, by landholders and management agencies, in an ecologically sustainable fashion (e.g.. Anon 1996, ANZECC & ARMCANZ 1999); by requirements to report on the state of and trends in biodiversity at (more)...

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Biodiversity dynamics in relation to habitat loss and disturbance in the NSW wheatbelt

Final Report

In originally proposing this project, we had three main motivations: to bring new ideas and analytical methods to bear on native vegetation management; to emphasise the importance of landscape and biodiversity dynamics; and to reach policy audiences.

Biodiversity values and functional ecology of regrowth vegetation in modified landscapes

“At a continental scale, remnant vegetation in the Australian rangelands can be described as intact, except towards the east where intensive land clearing has occurred prior to cessation of broadscale land clearing at the end of 2006. However, ongoing clearing of native vegetation for the purposes of harvesting fodder is a legitimate management approach for large areas of south-west Queensland, and is regulated under the Vegetation Management Act 1999. This is (more)...

Conservation hindered

the impact of native vegetation urban and rural perspectives

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Conserving biodiversity in highly modified production landscapes

Ten key strategies

Conserving biodiversity in our forestry and agricultural landscapes is a massive challenge for managers, planners, producers and researchers. Our existing system of conservation reserves is not sufficient to protect biodiversity, and commodity producti

CSI in the bush

This fact sheet written by Linda Broadhurst and Andrew Young provides a glimpse of how DNA markers and forensic technology is helping us better understand remnant health and population dynamics within our temperate agricultural landscapes. Forensic science may be a television phenomenon but increasingly it is helping scientists understand important ecological processes that occur in our natural environment. Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) (more)...

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Dynamics in tropical eucalypt forests

This fact sheet written by John Woinarski and Brydie Hill presents the key findings from the Land & Water Australia managed project: Defining successional patterns and biodiversity values of north Australian eucalypt forests. Overall, this study provides major new insights into the dynamics of these important tropical eucalypt forests, particularly allowing comparison with the dynamics of temperate eucalypt forests. The study has important management (more)...