Impacts of native vegetation and biodiversity regulations
Consultancy report
Released 07 / 11 / 2003
The Productivity Commission commissioned Devine Agribusiness (Kenny and Beale) to provide data on the returns from cleared native vegetation, the annual reduction in livestock carrying capacity from woodland thickening, and the estimated returns to grazing on uncleared vegetation in the Murweh shire (South West Queensland).
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- Contents
An equation relating carrying capacity to tree cover density for grazed woodlands
Isolating the variables
Safe Utilisation %
Annual consumption per DSE
AREA
VPDI
RAIN
RUE
Determining WI
1% per year increase in FPC
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