n its continuing investment in the vegetation arena, Land & Water Australia has published its Native Vegetation and Biodiversity R&D Program Plan for the current five year planning time frame.

Vetch is a winter-growing legume being increasingly grown in rotation with cotton.

Australian cotton is grown in a relatively compact and contiguous part of the country.

This final report discusses the: * development, methodology, outcomes and outputs of the three research projects funded by the OBP under the Aboriginal Management and Planning for Country subprogram (SP5) * the work o

Annual report for Land and water for 2003 - 2004 (formerly known by its legal title, the Land and Water Resources Research and Development Corporation)

Research has shown that in-stream water temperatures control ecological processes (i.e. ecosystem metabolism) and directly regulate biodiversity when upper lethal limits of resident aquatic fauna are exceeded.

In this issue: Pan evaporation defying the trends: new research; Masters of Climate revisited Innovative farmers coming through drought; Managing Climate Variability million dollar boost; New faces for MCV; Irrigator

This booklet aims to help researchers improve communication of research findings to policy makers at all levels of government.

An introduction to the South Australian native pasture project, which sets out the objectives, outcomes, proposed methods and contact details.

This report been prepared by the CIE as part of the National Program for Sustainable Irrigation. The financial assistance provided by the Program through Land and Water Australia is gratefully acknowledged.

Any future expansion of irrigated agriculture in Australia is likely to occur in northern Australia.

During Phase I of the project "Assessment of Ecological Risk Associated with Irrigation Systems in the Goulburn Broken Catchment" (Cottingham et al., 2001) adverse changes to the abundance and diversity of n

Knowledge is one of our most valuable and intangible assets.

New South Wales water catchments are now having their third attempt at managing our natural resources each having come along with its own set of expectations This tells us that we may have the last chance to get Catch

In 1971 Dr HJ Firth wrote - 'the Murray- Darling system, in addition to being the greatest river Basin in the land, is one of the greatest and most complex problems of resource conservation and management.

The natural resources (including land and water) of this planet are not inexhaustible, and therefore require continual management for them to remain sustainable.

Australian cotton growers have utilised collaborative research, education and extension to aid the development of what is today one of the most innovative rural industries.

Our research addresses three questionsI. Is soil biodiversity reduced in agricultural soil compared with undisturbed soilsΓ2. Does cropping affect which groups of fungi are present in agricultural soilsΓ3.

Soil type and climate both influence the cotton plants response to soil moisture status. Soil types differ in both the amount of moisture contained and more importantly how this moisture is available to the plant.