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

• Cultural heritage values
• 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.au

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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

The use of a trademark or proprietary product does not constitute a guarantee or warranty of the product by the author(s), by The Australian Rangeland Society or by CSIRO Publishing, and does not imply its approval to the exclusion of other products that may be suitable.

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
University of Queensland, AUSTRALIA
apressla@bigpond.net.au

Dr Mark Stafford-Smith
CSIRO, AUSTRALIA
mark.staffordsmith@csiro.au

Associate Professor O. Pauline Dube
University of Botswana, BOTSWANA
dubeop@mopipi.ub.bw

Dr Digby Race
Australian National University, AUSTRALIA
Digby.Race@anu.edu.au

Professor Glenda M. Wardle
The University of Sydney, AUSTRALIA
gwardle@bio.usyd.edu.au

Dr Ian Watson
CSIRO, AUSTRALIA
ian.watson@csiro.au

Professor Anna Cingolani
Córdoba National University, ARGENTINA
acingola@com.uncor.edu

Professor Ling Wang,
Northeast Normal University, CHINA
wangl890@nenu.edu.cn

Professor Fujiang Hou
Lanzhou University, CHINA
cyhoufj@lzu.edu.cn

Assistant Professor Amin Mugera
University of Western Australia, AUSTRALIA
amin.mugera@uwa.edu.au

Dr Ann Waters-Bayer
Royal Tropical Institute, NETHERLANDS
waters-bayer@web.de

Professor Graciela Metternicht
University of New South Wales, AUSTRALIA
g.metternicht@unsw.edu.au

Dr Steven Bray
QLD Department of Agriculture and Fisheries, AUSTRALIA
steven.bray@daf.qld.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, NETHERLANDS

Dr Iain Wright,
International Livestock Research Institute, ETHIOPIA

Dr Brandon Bestelmeyer,
USDA-ARS Range Management Research Unit, USA