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EWeedMAT:Environmental Weed Management Action Tool

The Yorke Peninsula Case Study

The Environmental Weed Management Action Tool (EWeedMAT) was initially developed in the South East Natural Resources Management (SENRM) region of South Australia.1 Native vegetation in the South East has been reduced to 11% of its original area and is now…

Developing a Model for Environmental Weed Management in Fragmented Landscapes

A case study

The Environmental Weed Management Action Tool, EWeedMAT, was initially developed in the South East Natural Resources Management (SENRM) Region of South Australia (Herpich, 2006). Like much of temperate Australia, remnant native vegetation in this region…

Mapping regional metabolism: an essential decision support tool for natural resource management

This book discusses material flow analysis (MFA) as a method to inform natural resource management at the regional level. The report resolves some long-standing dilemmas concerning regional data collection and reconciliation and presents a new bioregio

Using Wetting Front Detectors in Furrow Irrigation

The Wetting Front Detector (WFD) is a new tool to help measure how deeply water has penetrated into the soil after an irrigation event. The WFD also captures and stores a soil water sample, which can be analysed for its salt or nutrient content. The first commercial version of the Wetting Front Detector (WFD), called the FullStop, was released in 2004. The FullStop WFD is comprised of a (more)...

Investigations for Risk Assessments

NPSI Factsheet No. 2

The sustainability of Australia’s irrigation industry is currently under serious challenge. Irrigation uses ca. 75% of the water extracted from Australia’s rivers and groundwater systems, contributes to the pollution load in these rivers, and often leads to degradation of the irrigated land. In response to these challenges, the National Program for Sustainable irrigation (NPSI) has established an Ecological Risk Assessment Project, the overall objective (more)...