Australian Rangelands Information System

Australian Rangelands Information System

Rangelands Monitoring Theme final report "Tracking Changes" (available October 2001)

The Australian Rangelands Information System Operational Manual Version 1.0 (by A. Holm, November 2000). The full manual is available only in hard copy from the Audit Office. A word document can be downloaded for review. Summary [HTML]

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Biophysical Resources

"Developing an analytical framework for monitoring biodiversity in Australian rangelands" report (by Tropical Savannas CRC 2000):

• Summary [HTML]
• "The Framework" [PDF - 320KB]
• Background Paper 1 - "A review of changes in status and threatening processes" [PDF - 2MB] and Appendices A & B [PDF - 6MB]
• Background Paper 2 - "A review of pastoral monitoring programs and their real and potential contribution to biodiversity monitoring" [PDF - 1.2MB]
• Background Paper 3 - "A review of Information gathered from existing biodiversity monitoring programs" [PDF - 663KB]
• Background Paper 4 - "Approaches to broad-scale monitoring of biological diversity - a brief" [PDF - 131KB]
• Case Study 1 - "Biodiversity monitoring in Cape York Peninsular" [PDF - 92KB]
• Case Study 2 - "Biodiversity monitoring in the Gascoyne-Murchison Strategy area" [PDF - 243KB]
• Manual for biodiversity monitoring [PDF - 124KB]

"Ecosystem function analysis of rangelands monitoring data" report (by D. Tongway & N.Hindley, 1999) [PDF - 166KB] and Summary [HTML]

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Impacts on Biopysical Resources

"Indices of change in ecosystem function at the national scale using AVHRR NDVI data" report (by S.Cridland, 2000) [PDF - 380KB] and Summary [HTML]

"Indices of change in ecosystem function (cover) for northern South Australia using Landsat TM data" report (by A.Brook, R.Tynan & M.Flemming, 2001) [PDF - 1.7MB] and Summary [HTML]

"Regional land condition and trend assessment in Tropical Savannas" report (by R. Karfs, R. Applegate, R. Fisher, D. Lynch, D. Mullin, P. Novelly, L. Peel, K. Richardson, P. Thomas & J. Wallace, 2000):

• Summary [HTML]
• Final Report [PDF - 2MB]
• Technical Summation [PDF - 4MB]
• The East Kimberley/VRD Region - the Ord-Victoria WA/NT [PDF - 2MB]
• Appendix [PDF - 2MB]

"Incidences of extreme climatic events" report (by S.Cridland, 2000) [PDF - 264KB] and Summary [HTML]

"Change in land tenure/land use" report (by M. Gutteridge, W. Hall & A. Hanna, 2000) [PDF - 844KB] and Summary [HTML]

"Intensity of land use" report (by M. Gutteridge, G. Stone, A. Hanna, J. Kingston & W. Hall, 2001) [PDF - 7.48MB]

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Socioeconomic

"Compilation of a database of socioeconomic indicators for the rangelands" (by G. Haberkorn, C.MacGregor, S. Kelson & C. Charalambou, 2001):

• final report (text) [PDF - 544KB]
• graphs [ZIP - 39KB];
• individual attribute maps [ZIP - 2MB];
• community attribute maps [ZIP - 1MB];
• business attribute maps [ZIP - 1.8MB]; and
• general reference maps [ZIP - 1.5MB]

"Indicators within a decision framework - social, economic and institutional indicators for sustainable management in the rangelands" report [PDF - 3MB] and Appendices [PDF - 647KB] (by Centre for International Economics, Bureau for Rural Sciences, CSIRO & Resource Planning and Management, 2001.)

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