This book encapsulates the extensive knowledge developed by CSIRO's National Rangelands Program on how rangeland landscapes function and the implications for management. It looks at the ecology of rangeland landscape processes and deals with what happens when things go wrong, when a landscape loses its ability to efficiently capture and store water and nutrients - a state the authors call dysfunctional.
Ways of managing rangelands in response to understanding landscape function are also considered. The concluding Section looks to the future providing some scenarios for the way rangeland landscapes may be used in 2020.
Section I - Landscape Function
The Landscape Approach, John Ludwig & David Tongway
Conserving Nutrients and Water, David Tongway & John Ludwig
Production Pulses and Linkages, Ken Hodgkinson, David Freudenberger & Jim Noble
Consumers, Feedbacks and Off-take, David Freudenberger & Jim Noble
Section II - Landscape Dysfunction
Nature of Dysfunction, David Tongway & John Ludwig
Causes and Consequences of Dysfunction, David Freudenberger & Ken Hodgkinson
Section III - Landscape Management Implications
The Management Framework, Jim Noble & Joel Brown
Managing for Production and Conservation Goals, Jim Noble, David Freudenberger & Ken Hodgkinson
Rehabilitation of Landscape Function, Jim Noble, Neil MacLeod & Graham Griffin
Section IV - Rangeland Landscapes
Towards a Sustainable Future, John Ludwig & David Freudenberger
Landscape Function, Ecology and Management will be of interest to government policy makers, land administrators, extension staff, research officers and students undertaking courses in the management of natural resources both in Australia and, where there are many similarities between rangeland landscapes, in various parts of the world.
"I would recommend this compact and well argued book to a wide variety of ecologists, vegetation scientists, and those interested in the application of ecology to real world problems." Steward T.A. Pickett, Institute of Ecosystem Studies, USA (J. Vegetation Sci. 9, 1998)
"It will also be useful reading for students of landscape ecology and anyone who is looking for a clear, concise introduction to applied landscape ecology for range management in Australia and elsewhere." Einir M Young, Journal of Arid Environments 30, 1998
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