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Forage and browse — the northern Australian experience

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Plants for Arid Lands

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In this review of the implications of the introduction of exotic forage and browse species into the Australian pastoral industry, the area under consideration is that defined by Henzell (1974) as northern Australia. This includes the whole of Queensland and the Northern Territory and that part of Western Australia north of latitude 26°S. This is a region of over 450 million ha and comprises 40 per cent of the continent. The vegetation (Fig. 11.1, p. 145) varies from the savanna-like tall grasslands of the semi-arid tropics and sub-tropics to the arid Acacia shrublands and tussock grasslands of the interior (Mott et al. 1981). The dividing line between these two broad systems can be taken as the arid/humid line proposed by Perry (1968).

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  2. CSIRO Division of Tropical Crops and Pastures, Davies Laboratory, Private Mail Bag, Post Office, Aitkenvale, Queensland, 4814, Australia

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Mott, J.J., Reid, R. (1985). Forage and browse — the northern Australian experience. In: Wickens, G.E., Goodin, J.R., Field, D.V. (eds) Plants for Arid Lands. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-6830-4_11

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