The Rangeland Journal
The Society publishes The Rangeland Journal. This is an International Journal for managing natural resources, improving remote living and sustaining businesses in unpredictable and harsh environments, especially in arid regions.
Six issues are published each year. The Journal is abstracted and/or indexed in Science Citation Index Expanded, ABOA, Agricola, CAB International, The ISI Alerting Services, and Current Contents (Agriculture, Biology and Environmental Sciences).
Scope
The Rangeland Journal publishes original work that makes a significant contribution to understanding the biophysical, social, cultural, economic, and policy influences affecting rangeland use and management throughout the world. Rangelands are defined broadly and include all those environments where natural ecological processes predominate, and where values and benefits are based primarily on natural resources. Papers may present the results of original research, contributions to theory, practice or policy, or new conclusions reached from the review of a topic. Their structure need not conform to that of standard scientific articles but writing style must be clear and concise. All material presented must be well documented, critically analysed and objectively presented. All papers are peer reviewed.
Key topics covered by the journal include:
Social-economic-ecological systems
• Resilience of systems
• Climate-soil-plant-animal-people interactions
• Climate variability and change
• Governance, policy and adaptive capacity
• Remote living
• Innovation
Ecological function and processes
• Soil, plant and wildlife biology/ecology
• Landscape ecology
• Ecosystem services
• Fire
Land and Water Resources
• Rangeland inventory and monitoring
• Water resources
• Biological and cultural resources
Utilisation and management of resources
• Livestock, wildlife and niche-market
• production systems
• Pests and weeds
• Mining and rehabilitation
• Tourism and recreation
• Water management
Conservation of biological and cultural heritage
• Reserve and off-reserve conservation
The Journal is published by CSIRO Publishing. A generous discount of 20% on all books purchased from CSIRO Publishing is available to members of the Society. Details on how to obtain this generous discount are in the Members Area.
Subscriptions
Subscription information is available at www.publish.csiro.au/journals. Sales and subscription enquiries: publishing.sales@csiro.auPermission to photocopy items from this journal is granted by CSIRO to libraries and other users registered with the Copyright Clearance Center (CCC), provided that the appropriate fee for each copy is paid directly to the CCC, 222 Rosewood Drive, Danvers, MA 01923, USA. For copying in Australia, CSIRO PUBLISHING is registered with Copyright Agency Ltd, Level 19, 157 Liverpool Street, Sydney, NSW 2000, Australia. Special requests should be addressed to the Publisher.
All earlier issues of the Journal have been scanned and are available under certain circumstances on the CSIRO Publishing website at http://www.publish.csiro.au/rj
The Rangeland Journal: ISSN 1036-9872
Official Journal of The Australian Rangeland Society
www.austrangesoc.com.au
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Submissions
Instructions for preparation of manuscripts are available online. Manuscripts should be submitted using CSIRO Publishing’s online journal management system, ScholarOne Manuscripts, which can be reached from the Journal’s homepage.
For further enquiries contact the Editor-in-Chief, Dr Paul Novelly (penovelly@gmail.com ).
Editorial Committee
Editor-in-Chief
Dr Paul Novelly
AUSTRALIA
penovelly@gmail.com
Associate Editors
Professor Bernard Hubert
National Institute for Agricultural Research, FRANCE
bernard.hubert@avignon.inra.fr
Dr Tony Pressland
AUSTRALIA
apressla@bigpond.net.au
Dr Mark Stafford-Smith
CSIRO, AUSTRALIA
mark.staffordsmith@csiro.au
Professor Wei Sun
Northeast Normal University, China
sunwei@nenu.edu.cn
Dr Digby Race
University of the South Pacific, FIJI
Digby.Race@usp.ac.fj
Dr Ian Watson
CSIRO, AUSTRALIA
ian.watson@csiro.au
Professor Fujiang Hou
Lanzhou University, CHINA
cyhoufj@lzu.edu.cn
Dr Ann Waters-Bayer
Royal Tropical Institute, GERMANY
waters-bayer@web.de
Professor Graciela Metternicht
University of Western Sydney, AUSTRALIA
g.metternicht@westernsydney.edu.au
Dr Steven Bray
QLD Department of Agriculture and Fisheries, AUSTRALIA
steven.bray@daf.qld.gov.au
Dr Rhiannon Smith
Professor Babo Fadlalla
Sudan University of Science and Technology, SUDAN
Dr Sarah McDonald
NSW Department of Agriculture and Fisheries, AUSTRALIA
sarah.mcdonald@dpi.nsw.gov.au
Advisory Editors
Dr Joel Brown
USDA-Natural Resources Conservation Service, USA
Dr Margaret H. Friedel
CSIRO, AUSTRALIA
Professor Iain Gordon
James Cook University, AUSTRALIA
Professor Jikun Huang
Peking University, CHINA
Professor Osvaldo Sala
Arizona State University, USA
Professor Deli Wang
Northeast Normal University, CHINA
Dr Ann Waters-Bayer
Royal Tropical Institute, GERMANY
Dr Iain Wright,
International Livestock Research Institute, ETHIOPIA
Dr Brandon Bestelmeyer,
USDA-ARS Range Management Research Unit, USA