Australian Rangelands Information System
Project Documentation
Table of Contents
- Australian Rangelands Information System
- Impacts on Biophysical Resources
- Biophysical Resources
- Socioeconomic
Australian Rangelands Information System
- Rangelands-Tracking Changes final report
- Rangelands-Tracking Changes summary report
- Rangelands-Tracking Changes summary report (PDF - 11.5 MB)
- The Australian Rangelands Information System Operational Manual Version 1.0 (by A. Holm, November 2000). (PDF - 190 KB) The full manual is available only in hard copy from the Audit Office
- Summary: Australian Rangelands Information System Operational Manual Version
Biophysical Resources
"Developing an analytical framework for monitoring biodiversity in Australian rangelands" report (by Tropical Savannas CRC 2000):
- Summary
- "The Framework" (PDF - 320 KB)
- Background Paper 1 - "A review of changes in status and threatening processes" (PDF - 2 MB)
- Background Paper 1 - Appendices A & B (PDF - 6 MB)
- 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 - 633 KB)
- Background Paper 4 - "Approaches to broad-scale monitoring of biological diversity - a brief" (PDF - 131 KB)
- Case Study 1 - "Biodiversity monitoring in Cape York Peninsular" (PDF - 92 KB)
- 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 - 166 KB)
- Summary: Ecosystem function analysis of rangelands monitoring data report
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)
- Summary: Indices of change in ecosystem function at the national scale using AVHRR NDVI data
- "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)
- Summary: Indices of change in ecosystem function for northern South Australia using Landsat TM data
"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
- Final Report (PDF - 2MB)
- Technical Summation (PDF - 4MB)
- The East Kimberley/VRD Region - the Ord-Victoria WA/NT (PDF - 2 MB)
- Appendix (PDF - 2 MB)
- "Incidences of extreme climatic events" report (by S.Cridland, 2000) (PDF - 264KB)
- Summary (Incidences of extreme climatic events)
- Change in land tenure/land use" report (by M. Gutteridge, W. Hall & A. Hanna, 2000) (PDF - 844 KB]
- Summary (Change in land tenure/land use)
- "Intensity of land use" report (by M. Gutteridge, G. Stone, A. Hanna, J. Kingston & W. Hall, 2001) (PDF - 7.48 MB]
- Summary (Intensity of land use)
Socioeconomic
"Compilation of a database of socioeconomic indicators for the rangelands" (by G. Haberkorn, C.MacGregor, S. Kelson & C. Charalambou, 2001):
"Indicators within a decision framework - social, economic and institutional indicators for sustainable management in the rangelands" (by Centre for International Economics, Bureau for Rural Sciences, CSIRO & Resource Planning and Management, 2001.)
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