Recent initiatives in biodiversity conservation in grazed temperate grasslands and woodlands in Australia
Considerable efforts are being devoted to conserving biodiversity within grazed temperate grasslands and woodlands in southern Australia.These efforts include : legislation to prevent further clearance of remnant vegetation, protection of high quality woodland remnants in formal reserves on public land and under property agreements on private property, land purchase and purchase of development rights, and a range of educational and incentive programs to encourage landholders to implement biodiversity‐sensitive grazing strategies.The major threats to biodiversity in grazed grasslands and woodlands are soil fertilisation, ploughing/tillage and conversion to non‐indigenous pasture species and crops, heavy set stocking, irrigation, and habitat fragmentation resulting in small, isolated populations.Increasingly, attention is being devoted to identifying circumstances in which continued grazing can play a positive role in maintaining biodiversity within conservation areas (especially in degraded ecosystems) and to developing strategic grazing regimes to promote native perennial species above exotic annual species in native pastures.Conservation approaches have shifted from a focus on protected areas to conservation through active use,with market access providing the incentive.Considerable research and development is required on all of these issues.
conservation native pastures grazing incentives market‐based approaches .
Ian Lunt John Morgan Louise Gilfedder Richard J.Williams Simon Foster
Charles Sturt University,PO Box 789,Albury,NSW 2640,Australia Department of Botany,La Trobe University,Bundoora Victoria 3086,Australia Department of Primary Industries and Water,GPO Box 44 Hobart Tasmania 7001,Australia CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems PMB 44 Winnellie NT 0822,Australia Bloom field.,Ross Tasmania 7209,Australia.
国际会议
呼和浩特
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2008-06-29（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）