Healthy Rangelands: Principles for Sustainable Systems. Focus on Australia's Burdekin Rangelands (Eds Marnie McCullough and Barbara Musso)

Sustainable management of extensively managed savanna rangelands

Article history: Received 14 November 2005 Received in revised form 24 April 2006 Accepted 26 May 2006 Available online 31 July 2006 Classic rangeland theory advocates stocking rangelands at relatively lowand constant levels. This theory has been labelled inappropriate for savanna rangelands, because savannas are strongly influenced by stochastic processes. Opportunistic strategies that force a...

Rangelands in Arid Ecosystem

Nutrition of Small Ruminants on Rangelands

Climate Change Impacts on South American Rangelands

Climate change impacts on Australian Rangelands

The recent IPCC Fourth Assessment report concluded that Australia has significant vulnerability to the changes in temperature and rainfall projected under climate change (Hennessy et al. 2007). Agriculture and natural resources were two of the key sectors identified as likely to be affected strongly. Extensive grazing is by far the most widespread agricultural land use in Australia. Most of the...