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Managing Landscapes - matching soils, climate and enterprises

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Professor Derek Eamus

"Ecohydrology" - Water, Forests and Climate, a ménage à trois. Professor Eamus’ research has resulted in several fundamental advances in our understanding of the water budgets of Australian ecosystems, by examining the linkages across leaf, tree, canopy and landscape-scale processes. His work has integrated the interactions of micro-meteorological, soil and plant variables, which determine the rates of water and carbon exchange between landscape (more)...
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Professor Graham Farquhar

Linking plant evaporative demand and pan evaporation

Professor Farquhar is Professor of Environmental Biology at the Research School of Biological Sciences, ANU . He is a world leader in researching and modelling the interactions between plants and their environment. As a member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Professor Farquhar shared the 2008 Nobel Peace Prize with other IPCC scientists.

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Separating almond evapotranspiration into soil water evaporation and crop transpiration

Separating Almond Evapotranspiration

The estimation of crop water use is a key input into much of the software which supports irrigation management. The most common method used to derive this estimate is to calculate it from weather data and coefficients specific to crop type and growing…

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ABARE Conference - Farming in the Dry

Ken Moore, manager of the Social and Institutional Research Program at Land & Water Australia, recently told delegates at the Farming in the Dry session of the The Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics (ABARE) Outlook Conference that drought is a long-term component of Australia’s climate, yet our Government’s and broader society continue to perceive it as requiring natural (more)...
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  • 7 April, 2009
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Characterising southwest Australia's rainfall variability using speleothems and climate models

Dr Pauline Treble has used chemical analysis in the layers formed on cave stalagmites to discover the prehistoric variability of Australia’s rainfall. These have then been compared with climate model’s predictions of the past.

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Modelling impacts of vegetation cover change on regional climate

Climate change is now the major and most urgent environmental issue facing Australia. Australia is particularly vulnerable to climate change, as it will compound existing land use pressures on natural resources, agriculture and native ecosystems. Australia’s current policy response to climate change has focused on mitigation and adaptation of forecasted changes attributable to greenhouse gas emissions. However, these responses do not include the two-way interactions and feedbacks of the land (more)...
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Climate Witness - a dispersed, national observer network for NRM phenology

Citizens observing and sharing ecological information can provide vast amounts of actionable information for NRM when twinned with a well designed information aggregation and analysis system.

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Farmers beat the dry times

Farmers in many cropping regions of Australia are recognising the importance of forecasting to improve decision-making for farming in the dry.

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  • 4 March, 2009
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Improving Seasonal forecasts for SWWA

More than half of the variation in gross margins in wheat cropping in south-west Western Australia (SWWA) can be explained by growing season rainfall variability (May to October). Forecasting seasonal rainfall should therefore enable the adjustment of management practices to maximise returns from ‘good’ seasons and minimise losses from ‘bad’ seasons. Growing season rainfall forecasts from Australia’s seasonal climate forecast model POAMA 1.5 (more)...

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