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dc.contributor.authorKing, Kathleen Loraen
dc.contributor.authorHutchinson, Keithen
dc.date.accessioned2009-10-27T09:22:00Z-
dc.date.issued2007-
dc.identifier.citationAustralian Journal of Experimental Agriculture, 47(4), p. 392-403en
dc.identifier.issn1446-5574en
dc.identifier.issn0816-1089en
dc.identifier.issn1836-5787en
dc.identifier.issn1836-0939en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/2670-
dc.description.abstractImpacts of practices frequently used to manage Australian pastures are reviewed with the aim of determining which groups are responsive to changes in grazing regime, fertiliser use, pasture types, tree clearing, pesticide use, liming and irrigation. Invertebrate groups sensitive to pasture management regimes may be potential candidates for use as bioindicators of ecological sustainability of these pasture types. This review concentrates on the more intensively utilised temperate pastures of southern Australia, as very little work has been done on the impact of the grazing animal and pasture management on invertebrate fauna on the extensive rangelands of the arid and semiarid zones. Background to the relative importance of invertebrates in the functioning of the pasture ecosystem is given. This has culminated in the construction of food webs for two temperate perennial pastures (an unfertilised, native and a fertilised, sown pasture) at Armidale, NSW, for which there is comprehensive data available. Invertebrate bioindicators of pasture sustainability emerged from the consideration of grazing lands and invertebrate responses. Currently, only four groups would seem to be likely candidates as bioindicators of sustainability of pastures. These are soil nematodes, earthworms, protozoa and Collembola. The main difficulty in monitoring these groups is that it requires specialist expertise, and services provided by commercial laboratories for routine biological soil tests are still in their infancy. There are gaps in our knowledge of how invertebrate fauna react to the pressing issues of soil acidity and salinity.en
dc.languageenen
dc.publisherCSIRO Publishingen
dc.relation.ispartofAustralian Journal of Experimental Agricultureen
dc.titlePasture and grazing land: assessment of sustainability using invertebrate bioindicatorsen
dc.typeJournal Articleen
dc.identifier.doi10.1071/EA05270en
dc.subject.keywordsSoil Biologyen
local.contributor.firstnameKathleen Loraen
local.contributor.firstnameKeithen
local.subject.for2008050303 Soil Biologyen
local.subject.seo2008960504 Ecosystem Assessment and Management of Farmland, Arable Cropland and Permanent Cropland Environmentsen
local.profile.schoolAdministrationen
local.profile.schoolSchool of Environmental and Rural Scienceen
local.profile.emailkking8@une.edu.auen
local.profile.emailkhutchi2@une.edu.auen
local.output.categoryC1en
local.record.placeauen
local.record.institutionUniversity of New Englanden
local.identifier.epublicationsrecordpes:5419en
local.publisher.placeAustraliaen
local.format.startpage392en
local.format.endpage403en
local.identifier.scopusid33947272102en
local.peerreviewedYesen
local.identifier.volume47en
local.identifier.issue4en
local.title.subtitleassessment of sustainability using invertebrate bioindicatorsen
local.contributor.lastnameKingen
local.contributor.lastnameHutchinsonen
dc.identifier.staffune-id:kking8en
dc.identifier.staffune-id:khutchi2en
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local.identifier.unepublicationidune:2746en
dc.identifier.academiclevelAcademicen
dc.identifier.academiclevelAcademicen
local.title.maintitlePasture and grazing landen
local.output.categorydescriptionC1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journalen
local.relation.urlhttp://nla.gov.au/anbd.bib-an4599774en
local.search.authorKing, Kathleen Loraen
local.search.authorHutchinson, Keithen
local.uneassociationUnknownen
local.year.published2007en
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