Listed here are books and book chapters written or contributed to by our staff. These works can be monographs in any format, printed works, ebooks or ibooks.
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Strategic tillage for sustaining the productivity of broadacre cropping in the arid and semi-arid regions of Southern Australia
Gaus Azam, Md. Shahinur Rahman, and Kanch Wickramarachchi
Conventional tillage, usually practised before every cropping cycle, was proven damaging and unsustainable and was replaced by conservation agriculture (CA) using no-till systems following the ‘dustbowls’ incident in the USA. However, the continuous practice of CA has brought new soil and agronomic challenges, such as ... Read more
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Control of Barley Grass in the Low Rainfall Zone Farming Systems
Gurjeet Gill and Catherine Borger
Barley grass infestations of cereal crops have increased in southern and western Australia. GRDC partners in these regions tested localised integrated weed management strategies at demonstration sites in key low-rainfall zones.
This publication captures the results of this research and on-farm practices that are working ... Read more
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Chapter 31: Sharks, rays and chimaeras
Bonnie J. Holmes, Samuel M. Williams, A Barnett, Kathy A. Townsend, Barbara E. Wueringer, Ross K. Daley, Christine L. Dudgeon, Asia Armstrong, Christopher Henderson, Brittany Finucci, Charlie Huveneers, Paul A. Butcher, Kevin Crook, Jamie Hicks, Cassandra L. Rigby, Christopher Izzo, Michelle A. Treloar, Adrian N. Gutteridge, and Stephen M. Taylor
Wildlife Research in Australia: Practical and Applied Methods is a guide to conducting wildlife research in Australia. It provides advice on working through applications to animal ethics committees, presents general operating procedures for a range of wildlife research methods, and details animal welfare considerations ... Read more
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Biology and Management of Problematic Crop Weed Species
Catherine Borger, Joel Torra, Aritz Royo-Esnal, Laura Davies, and George Newcombe
Bromus diandrus and Bromus rigidus are internationally distributed weeds, particularly common in rain-fed, dryland cereal cropping regions in Mediterranean climates. The taxonomic structure within the Bromus genus is unclear, and it is not apparent if B. diandrus and B. rigidus are one species or two. ... Read more
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Primary Industries Development Research Highlights 2021
Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development and Tim Scanlon
The Primary Industries Development Research Highlights 2021 showcases the breadth and depth of the Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development’s research and development activities over the past several years.
Stories featured in Research Highlights 2021 stem from about 60 (of 140) current ... Read more
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Importance of Fusarium spp. in wheat to food security: a global perspective
Toni Petronaitis, Steven Simpfendorfer, and Daniel Huberli
Fusarium species are responsible for causing two major diseases in wheat worldwide: Fusarium head blight (FHB) and Fusarium crown rot (FCR). These diseases threaten wheat production worldwide and have the potential to impact food security negatively, especially since it is estimated that global wheat production ... Read more
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The oceanography and marine ecology of Ningaloo, a World Heritage Area
Mathew A. Vanderklift, Russell C. Babcock, Peter B. Barnes, Anna K. Cresswell, Ming Feng, Michael D. Haywood, Thomas H. Holmes, Paul S. Lavery, Richard D. Pillans, Claire B. Smallwood, Damian P. Thomson, Anton D. Tucker, Kelly Waples, and Shaun K. Wilson
The Ningaloo coast of north-western Australia (eastern Indian Ocean) hosts one of the world's longest and most extensive fringing coral reef systems, along with globally significant abundances of large marine fauna such as whale sharks. These characteristics – which have contributed to its inscription on ... Read more
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Crustacean Fisheries
James W. Penn, Nick Caputi, Simon de Lestang, Danielle Johnston, Mervi I. Kangas, and Justin Bopp
This Crustacean fisheries research and management article provides an overview of the production from the world's major crustacean fisheries, their general biology and life history including information on the unusual growth processes of regular replacement of their exoskeleton (or molting) which all crustaceans undergo ... Read more
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Chapter 18: Management Adaptation to Climate Change Effect on Fisheries in Western Australia
Nick Caputi, Simon de Lestang, Ming Feng, and Gary Jackson
Western Australia is an ideal location to examine biological and socio-economic implications of climate change on fisheries as its coast extends over 14–35°S encompassing tropical to temperate ecosystems. The marine environment is strongly influenced by the warm, low-nutrient, south-flowing Leeuwin Current. There has been a ... Read more
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Report card on sustainable natural resource use in the rangelands: status and trend in the pastoral rangelands of Western Australia
Department of Agriculture and Food, Western Australia
This report card provides a regional overview of the status and trend of the natural resource base of the pastoral rangelands in Western Australia (WA). It covers the pastoral lease areas of the 2.2 million square kilometres of rangelands in WA (87% of the state). ... Read more
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Chapter 24: Lobsters in a Changing Climate
B F. Phillips, Monica Perez-Ramirez, and Simon de Lestang
This chapter examines the latest information on climate change studies as they affect lobsters and considers case studies of five lobster species; Panulirus cygnus and Jasus edwardsii in Australia; Homarus americanus in the USA and Canada; Panulirus interruptus in the USA and Mexico and Panulirus ... Read more
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Agronomic Options for Profitable Rice-based Farming System in Northern Australia
Siva Sivapalan
Minimum air temperatures less than 15°C had biggest impact on varietal performance. Cold damage during the months of June and July warrants selection of varieties with cold tolerance for this environment, especially for the aerobic rice system. Ponded water has 4-8°C advantage over the air ... Read more
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Water Balance of Flooded Rice in the Tropics
Siva Sivapalan
Department of Agriculture and Food, WA staff member authored "Water Balance of Flooded Rice in the Tropics" in the publication Irrigation and Drainage - Sustainable Strategies and Systems’, edited by Muhammad Salik Javaid, published by INTECH, May 2015
Chapter Summary: Excess groundwater recharge rates under ... Read more
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Origin of Fungicide-Resistant Barley Powdery Mildew in Western Australia: Lessons to Be Learned
Madeline Ann Tucker, Francisco J. Lopez-Ruiz, Kithsiri Jayasena, and Richard P. Oliver
The risk of fungicide resistance is greatest with pathogens with short dormant periods, with both sexual and asexual reproduction cycles, with large population sizes and when fungicides of a single mode of action (MOA) are repeatedly used. Most of the barley growing area in Western ... Read more
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In vitro culture for doubled haploids: tools for molecular breeding
Sue Broughton, Parminder K. Sidhu, and Philip A. Davies
Doubled haploid (DH) techniques using immature microspores or embryos rescued in vitro following interspecific hybridization are important tools for breeding wheat and barley and for generating populations for gene mapping purposes. Here, we describe methods being used for the successful production of spring wheat and ... Read more
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Shark Bay Snapper: Science, Policy, and the Decline and Recovery of a Marine Recreational Fishery
Joseph Christensen and Gary Jackson
Since the mid-1990s Shark Bay’s inner gulf snapper fishery has become one of the most intensively studied and better-understood marine recreational fisheries in Australia. It provides an important case-study of the impact that recreational fishing can have on highly targeted stocks, showing that recreational fishers, ... Read more
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Chapter 4: The Impact of Climate Change on Exploited Lobster Stocks
Nick Caputi, Simon de Lestang, Stuart Frusher, and Richard A. Wahle
Climate change is predicted to significantly affect the world's oceans, with increases in water temperature, changes in ocean currents, pH levels and winds. This chapter highlights the vulnerability of lobster stocks to climate change due to their long larval life. Western and southern rock lobsters ... Read more
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Report card on sustainable natural resource use in agriculture : status and trend in the agricultural areas of the south-west of Western Australia
Department of Agriculture and Food, Western Australia
This report card summarises our current knowledge of the status and trend in the natural resource base in the agricultural areas of the south-west of Western Australia (WA) and provides a discussion of the implications for agricultural industries.
The condition of our natural resources is ... Read more
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In response to need, a history of the Western Australian Department of Agriculture - 1894 to 2008
E N. Fitzpatrick
The department was not always such a significant organisation; it came from very small beginnings. However, it has been a major component of the engine which has produced an agricultural industry in a Mediterranean climate zone which is superior to all others operating in this ... Read more
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Supply chain performance of the Australian beef industry: Comparing the industry structure, Inter-firm relationships and knowledge systems of Western Australia and Queensland
Mohammad Nasir Uddin,; Nazrul Islam; and Mohammed Quaddus
The meat and livestock industry in Australia accounts for more than 45 per cent of Australia’s total value of agricultural production, within which beef is the largest industry in value terms (Nossal, Sheng and Zhao 2008). But the industry is experiencing a long-term decline in ... Read more
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Rangeland condition monitoring: A guide for pastoral lessees
David Warburton
This publication is a guide for the installation and assessment of monitoring sites, and reporting of rangeland condition trend required for the Rangeland Condition Monitoring (RCM) system of the Pastoral Lands Board of Western Australia (PLB).
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Vegetable growing : a guide for home gardeners in Western Australia
Department of Agriculture, Western Australia
DAFWAs popular publication about vegetable growing for home gardeners.
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Feed on offer photo gallery : for annual pastures during the green period
Mandy (Catherine Amanda) Curnow and Lifetimewool (Australia)
Food on Offer, or FOO, is the amount of pasture available for sheep to eat. It is measured as dry matter per hectare, and then used to budget feed available and stocking rates for a given period.
FOO includes all green material above the ground ... Read more
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Chapter 15. Chinese jujube - a developing industry in Australia
Rachelle Johnstone, Fucheng Shan, and Alec McCarthy
Department of Agriculture and Food, WA staff member authored "Chinese jubjube - a developing industry in Australia" in the publication Chinese Dates: A Traditional Functional Food’, edited by Dongheng Liu, Xingqian Ye, Yueming Jiang, published by CRC Press, 2006
Chapter summary: Chinese jujube is regarded ... Read more