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Biodiversity and water point closure: is the grazing piosphere a persistent effect?

By David B. Croft, Rebecca Montague-Drake, Matthew Dowle

Book: Animals of Arid Australia: Out on their own?

Series: Other RZS NSW Publications

Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales

Published: 01 January 2007

10.7882/FS.2007.047

EISBN: 978-0-9803272-0-5

... rainfalls. The result has been a homogenisation of the landscape for grazing by livestock, and sacrifice of the vegetation and soils around AWP through the formation of grazing piospheres. The reservation of some former pastoral properties to create national parks has led to water management policies...

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Journal Articles

Homo sapiens is the apex animal: anthropocentrism as a Dionysian sword

Peter JS Fleming, Guy Ballard

Australian Zoologist (2017) 38 (3): 464–476.

https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2015.019

Published: 01 June 2017

... of plants and animals (Hunt et al. 2007) should not be undersold. Gross structural and floristic changes to vegetation form piospheres radiating from focal water points (Derry 2004; Lange 1969), with productivity and structural diversity of the vegetation and associated faunal assemblages decreasing...