Dry Tropics
Water Quality Targets for the Burdekin Water Quality Improvement Plan. ACTFR Report No. 08/05 for the Burdekin Dry Tropics NRM
... Burdekin Dry Tropics NRM community water quality monitoring project has identified specific ‘hot spot’ areas (see Figure 3) within the Burdekin catchment (Bainbridge et ...Creek, Dry River, Clarke ...
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Soil microbial biomass dynamics in grassland and agroecosystem receiving varying resource quality soil inputs in dry tropics
... In India ~ 63% of total arable land is under rainfed dryland farming conditions having no access to irrigation. The use of chemical fertilizer is limited in these rainfed agroecosystems due to low moisture levels. ...
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Phytoplankton dynamics of riverine water holes in the dry tropics of north Queensland, Australia
... conductivity and temperature were major physico-chemical correlates contributing to the observed differences. Since sites differed substantially in turbidity, it was expected that turbidity would be important in ...
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Landscape-scale effects of homesteads, water, and dingoes on invading chital deer in Australia’s dry tropics
... hot dry season in Australia’s dry ...annual dry periods and particularly long dry periods such as experienced during our study in 2015 ...and dry tropical ...
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Phytoplankton dynamics of riverine water holes in the dry tropics of north Queensland, Australia
... conductivity and temperature were major physico-chemical correlates contributing to the observed differences. Since sites differed substantially in turbidity, it was expected that turbidity would be important in ...
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A study of soil formation rates using 10Be in the wet-dry tropics of northern Australia
... Be) tracers has been undertaken in the Daly River Basin in the wet-dry tropics of northern Australia. Three soil cores have been collected to bedrock, with depths ranging from ~1-3.5 m. Due to agricultural ...
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Adaptability of cattle raising to multiple stressors in the dry tropics of Chiapas, Mexico
... the dry tropics of Chiapas, Mexico was ...Mexico´s dry tropics, establishing ecological or organic cattle raising and silvopastoral systems may reduce the vulnerability of farm families and ...
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The ecology of rivers in the Australian dry tropics
... the dry seasons, 3) low/disconnected flows during the dry season, and 4) the initial flushing flows during the dry- to wet-season ...wet-dry tropics region of northern Australia, ...
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Wambiana Grazing Trial: water quality update to Burdekin Dry Tropics NRM
... The trial is located on Wambiana, 70 km SW of Charters Towers (20° 34’ S, 146° 07’ E), north Queensland. Long term (90 year) mean annual precipitation for the nearest Bureau of Meteorology rainfall station at Trafalgar, ...
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Vegetable soil health systems for overcoming limitations causing soil borne diseases
... Vegetables grown in the warm Burdekin Dry Tropics are an important supply for winter markets in the southern metropolitan areas of Australia. Land preparation includes multiple annual tillage operations; ...
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Agriculture, Biodiversity and Markets: livelihoods and agroecology in comparative perspective
... viii Agriculture, Biodiversity and Markets ITCPGR International Technical Conference on Plant Genetic Resources MAO MASIPAG MBI MEA MSSRF MY NAFTA NASAA NGO NOP NQ Dry Tropics NTFP OECD [r] ...
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An investigation of the effects of isomorphism on the North Queensland beef cattle industry
... NHT has been described as a ‘2nd generation Landcare programme’ (Wilson, 2004:467), and was aimed at including more urban and Indigenous (i.e. Aboriginal) stakeholder interests (Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and ...
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Rainforest frogs of the wet tropics, north-east Australia
... Hy lid frogs are found across much of the world but reach their greatest diversity in Central and South America, Australia and New Guinea. Members of this diverse family are found in all habitats throughout Australia. ...
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Management Of Concrete Production In The Tropics
... Past research works on the creation of numerical models for the prediction of temperature distribution in mass concrete mainly focused on using basic heat generation functions for the calculation of adiabatic temperature ...
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Participatory evaluation of co-management in wet tropics country: interim report
... Wet Tropics World Heritage Area (WTWHA), and the terrestrial and marine assets underpinning resilient communities in the Torres Strait, through the generation and transfer of world-class research and shared ...
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Spatial Risk Assessment for Coastal Seagrass Habitats in the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area: a case study of the dry and wet tropics
... The hazards identified by the experts do not have a homogenous distribution. For example, some ports in the Dry and Wet Tropics are dredge more frequently than other ports, and some ports are not dredge at ...
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Urban design and tourism in the tropics
... the tropics is a key driver of this research, but raises critical questions around why a place might be considered as ‘tropical’ and not in the context of its other specific place-based characteristics, such as ...
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Rhodoliths as environmental archives in the tropics
... CHAPTER Ill - An investigation of Mg/Ca distribution in Sporolithon durum coralline red algae Figure 111-1 Location map and cross section of the BSA rhodolith specimen Figure 111-2 Typic[r] ...
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AN ESTIMATION OF HEAT STRESS IN TROPICS
... In tropics a good number of workers of agriculture, construction and resource industries are exposed to severe thermal stressful environments particularly in premonsoon months (March to ...
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POTENTIAL OF SOLAR ENERGY IN TROPICS
... Chennai (13.08 o N, 80.27 o E) the “Gateway to South India” is located on the South–Eastern coast of India in the North–Eastern part of Tamil Nadu. Its average elevation is around 6.7 m. Two major rivers meander through ...
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