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Mastering vegetation management for both conservation and profit

The widespread adoption of agroforestry and native vegetation management is seen as a means of supporting agricultural productivity; increasing the resilience of farming businesses in the face of increasingly uncertain climate and market conditions; reducing the environmental impacts of agricultural management; and enhancing regional biodiversity, aesthetic and cultural values.

Understanding and determining mechanisms to prevent invasion in coastal vegetation

We investigated the effect of richness of different growth forms (functional richness), the arrival order (priority effects) and competitive interactions in mediating plant community resilience to invasion events. We constructed mesocosms composed of dune…

New paradigms to find solutions to intractable natural resource management problems

This final report presents the results of the project conducted from 1 July 2005 to 3 July 2008. The project consisted of three phases: firstly, the investigation of personality types of people involved with natural resource management and policy acros

Frameworks to support irrigation decision making in Northern Australia

The Northern Australia Irrigation Futures (NAIF) research program has provided new knowledge, tools and processes to support decision making regarding irrigation in northern Australia.