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Talaheni Horse Paddock, Murrambatman, NSW. VAST-2: Tracking the Transformation of Australia's Vegetated Landscapes

Created 25/06/2025

Updated 04/03/2026

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The aim of this project is to compile land use and management practices and their observed and measured impacts and effects on vegetation condition. The results provide land managers and researchers with a tool for reporting and monitoring spatial and temporal transformations of Australia’s native vegetated landscapes due to changes in land use and management practices. Following are the details about Talaheni Horse Paddock, Murrambatman, NSW.

Pre-European benchmark-analogue vegetation: The site was originally a Themeda sp. grassy woodland.

Brief chronology of changes in land use and management:

  • 1830: Grazing of native vegetation - shepherds
  • 1900-1961: Fencing and continuous grazing with sheep
  • 1905: Overstorey thinned by ringbarking
  • 1906-1920: Continuous removal of suckers and regrowth
  • 1962: Remaining larger trees pushed over with a bull dozer
  • 1962-1974: Continuous grazing with cattle
  • 1968-1978: Four applications of superphosphate and exotic pasture species
  • 1975-1982: Continuous grazing with horses
  • 1983-1984: Continuous grazing with sheep
  • 1985: Continuous grazing ceased
  • 1986: Commenced rehabilitation
  • 1987-2008: Area lightly grazed using rotational grazing with sheep
  • 2008-2010: All stock removed - increasing high numbers of kangaroos.

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Title Talaheni Horse Paddock, Murrambatman, NSW. VAST-2: Tracking the Transformation of Australia's Vegetated Landscapes
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/en/dataset/85ba0906-160a-4aab-a261-ff8e1e6f6c66
Contact Point
Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network's Data Discovery
rthackway@netspeed.com.au
Reference Period 01/01/1788 - 31/12/2010
Geospatial Coverage Australia
Data Portal Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network

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This dataset was originally found on Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network "Talaheni Horse Paddock, Murrambatman, NSW. VAST-2: Tracking the Transformation of Australia's Vegetated Landscapes". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://geonetwork.tern.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/talaheni-horse-paddock-murrambatman-nsw-vast-2-tracking-the-transformation-of-australias-vegeta