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Maximising woodlands bird diversity in Brigalow Belt forests

The Brigalow Belt is a national biodiversity hotspot, and its extensive forests and woodlands are potentially significant refugia for fragmentation-sensitive birds, but our understanding of optimal management for biodiversity conservation and the specific threats facing woodland birds in the area is limited. In particular, management of the aggressive noisy miner is a major challenge throughout the region, despite the species typically being associated with fragmented landscapes. This project aimed to (more)...

Implementation

This report presents the National Framework for the assessment of EWRs of GDEs. It has been designed to assist water resource, catchment and ecosystem managers, or their advisors, in considering the needs of GDEs in water allocation planning policy.

Field Studies

There are presently a limited number of tools available for quantifying the level of groundwater dependence within ecosystems or identifying EWRs (see Report 1). With particular regards to defining ERFs (that describe the relationship between ecophysiology…

NPSI Strategic Plan Phase 2

The new Phase of NPSI will focus its investment on answering questions around: plant performance and how that impacts on various farm irrigation systems; system-level sustainability: and tools for irrigators, water suppliers and policy makers to measure change. Research will be commissioned to provide either new information (smart science) or development; ensuring that the new information can be readily used by practitioners, planners and policy makers.

Northern Australia Irrigation Futures - Overview

The Northern Australian Irrigation Futures (NAIF) project has worked closely with the WA, NT, QLD and Australian governments, researchers and stakeholders, to deliver new knowledge, tools and processes to support debate and decision making regarding irrigation in northern Australia.

Northern Australia Irrigation Futures - Final Report Appendices

These appendices form part of and should be read in conjunction with the Northern Australia Irrigation Futures (NAIF) National Program for Sustainable Irrigation (NPSI) CDS23 final report, which contains a synthesised view of all the NAIF work carried out…

Northern Australia Irrigation Futures - Final Technical Report

Northern Australia holds an iconic status for many Australians. The interplay between the landscape, rivers, groundwater and strongly monsoonal weather patterns has resulted in unique and diverse ecological systems that will need special attention to…

Northern Australia Irrigation Futures - Final Report

Northern Australia holds an iconic status for many Australians. The interplay between the landscape, rivers, groundwater and strongly monsoonal weather patterns has resulted in unique and diverse ecological systems that will need special attention…

Irrigation Insights 6 - Irrigation Decisions: from enterprise planning to the paddock

This publication combines the experiences and insights of irrigation consultants and extension officers with that of social, agronomic and engineering scientists. The resultant publication is targeted at those who advise, support and supply irrigation dependent enterprises with new information, tools and equipment.

New Tools for Measuring Evaporation from Farm Dams

This bulletin describes the results of a modelling study of evaporation from farm dams and a ‘ready reckoner’ in the form of a spreadsheet that:

• Calculates the cost of installing an evaporation reduction system
• Calculates how much water is saved from evaporating.