Enhancing and utilising landscape heterogeneity to meet multiple land use objectives

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The broad aim of the project was to provide land managers with information that will encourage them to further value, protect and enhance vegetation diversity by demonstrating the practical benefits that can be derived from this natural asset in Australian rangelands. Vegetation diversity and local climate influences combine to produce differences between regions in the patterns of plant growth from year to year, such that the timing of droughts and favourable years can vary between regions. We set out to determine how geographical diversification in rangelands could exploit such non-synchronous patterns of plant production to buffer the effects of drought and reduce exposure to risks associated with climate variability using strategic networks of jointly-managed properties