Contributed Articles March 1994 (No. 1)

Regional evaluation of herbaceous and tree legumes in West Java, Indonesia — SITI YUHAENI and D.A. IVORY

Dry matter production and transfer dynamics in a humid grassland of Western Ghats in southern India — K.S.T.K. KARUNAICHAMY and K. PALIWAL

Sustainable grazing management: graziers' perspectives and implications for pasture management in the Maranoa region, south Queensland — D.N. LAWRENCE, T.W.G. GRAHAM and R.A. CLARK

Reaction of selected accessions of forage Cassia spp. to some fungal pathogens — S. CHAKRABORTY, R. CHARUDATTAN and J.T. DE VALERIO

The application of visual estimation procedures for monitoring pasture yield and composition in exclosures and small plots — R.B. WAITE

Nitrogen cycling in a pure grass pasture and a grass-legume mixture on a red latosol in Brazil — G. CADISCH, R.M. SCHUNKE and K.E. GILLER

Response of Shaw creeping vigna and a perennial alyceclover accession to burning — W.D. PITMAN and M.B. ADJEI

Awards of the Tropical Grassland Society of Australia Inc. 1993

Book review

The World's Savannas: Economic driving forces, ecological constraints and policy options for sustainable land use

Notes for contributors

Contributed Articles June 1994 (No. 2)

Evaluation of tropical pasture legumes for fodder banks in subhumid Nigeria.
1. Accessions of Centrosema brasilianum, C. pascuorum, Chamaecrista rotundifolia and Stylosanthes hamata — M. PETERS, S.A. TARAWALI and J. ALKÄMPER

Evaluation of tropical pasture legumes for fodder banks in subhumid Nigeria.
2. Accessions of Aeschynomene histrix, Centrosema acutifolium, C. pascuorum, Stylosanthes guianensis and S. hamata — M. PETERS, S.A. TARAWALI and J. ALKÄMPER

The yield and persistence of selected forage legumes in subhumid and semi-arid west Africa — S.A. TARAWALI

The effect of phosphorus as fertiliser or supplement on pasture and cattle productivity in the semi-arid tropics of north Queensland — D.B. COATES

Diet selection in six Stylosanthes–grass pastures and its implications for pasture stability — THE LATE C.J. GARDENER and A.J. ASH

Foliar application of 2,4-D/picloram, imazapyr, metsulfuron, tricopyr/picloram, and dicamba kills individual rubber vine (Cryptostegia grandiflora) plants — J.S. VITELLI, R.J. MAYER and P.L. JEFFREY

Assessment of haraz (Acacia albida) pods as a potential supplement for cattle — I.M. HASHIM

Contributed Articles September 1994 (No. 3)

Grassland improvement in subtropical Guangdong Province, China.

 1. Evaluation of pasture legumes — D.L. MICHALK and HUANG ZHI-KAI

 2. Evaluation of pasture grasses — D.L. MICHALK and HUANG ZHI-KAI

 3. Strategy for improvement of acid soils — D.L. MICHALK, W.J. RYAN andHUANG ZHI-KAI

 4. Development of a whole-farm grazing system — D.L. MICHALK, W.J. RYANand HUANG ZHI-KAI

Effect of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium fertilisation on herbage yield and quality and plant parasitic nematode populations in an irrigated rhodes grass (Chloris gayana) pasture in Oman — K.S. PRAKASH, A. MANI and TARIQ AL ZIDGALI

Early tree and pasture growth in an agroforestry system evaluating Albizia lebbeck, Casuarina cunninghamiana and Eucalyptus maculata in south-east Queensland — G.M. DUNN, K.F. LOWE, D.W. TAYLOR and T.M. BOWDLER

Seedling vigour of some Leucaena spp. and their hybrids — C.T. SORENSSON, H.M. SHELTON and M.T. AUSTIN

New herbage plant cultivar

Medicago sativa cv. Alfanafa

Contributed Articles December 1994 (No. 4)

State and transition models: Bringing research, extension and management together. Proceedings of a workshop held at the Forestry Training Centre, Gympie, Queensland, September 13–14, 1993

State and transition models for rangelands

 1. Successional theory and vegetation change — R.D.B. WHALLEY

 2. Ecology as a basis for rangeland management: Performance criteria fortesting models — JOEL R. BROWN

 3. The impact of the state and transition model on grazing lands research,management and extension — A review — P.G. FILET

 4. Application of state and transition models to rangelands in northern Australia —A.J. ASH, J.A. BELLAMY and T.G.H. STOCKWELL

 5. The use of state and transition models for predicting vegetation change inrangelands — J.C. SCANLAN

 6. State and transition models as aids to communication between scientists andland managers — A.C. GRICE and N.D. MACLEOD

 7. Building a state and transition model for management and research onrangelands — J.A. BELLAMY and J.R. BROWN

 8. A state and transition model for the northern speargrass zone — J.G.McIVOR and J.C. SCANLAN

 9. Development of state and transition models for pastoral management of thegolden beard grass and limestone grass pasture lands of NW Australia —T.G.H. STOCKWELL, R.T. ANDISON, A.J. ASH , J.A. BELLAMY and R.M. DYER

10. A state and transition model for the southern black speargrass zone ofQueensland — D.M. ORR, C.J. PATON and S. McINTYRE

11. A state and transition model of the Aristida-Bothriochloa pasture communityof central and southern Queensland — T.J. HALL, P.G. FILET, B. BANKSand R.G. SILCOCK

12. A general state and transition model for the mitchell grass, bluegrass-browntop and Queensland bluegrass pasture zones of northern Australia —S.R. MCARTHUR, H.J. CHAMBERLAIN and D.G. PHELPS

13. A state and transition model for the mulga zone of south-westQueensland— P. JONES and W.H. BURROWS

Book reviews

Decision support systems for the management of grazing lands: Emerging issues (Man and the Biosphere Series: Vol II)

Managing Native Pasture — A Grazier's Guide

Managing Southern Speargrass — A Grazier's Guide

A Key to Australian Grasses. 2nd Edition

Author Index