buffelgrass

The combination of bulldozing and introduction of exotic pasture, particularly buffelgrass (Cenchrus ciliaris), has been shown to significantly reduce floristic diversity of Brigalow Belt Communities.

Brigalow tropical savanna 2007

Intergeneric hybrid between pearl millet and buffelgrass.

Chapter 28 1996

But for now, at least, buffelgrass hasn't ruined the park's quiet, stoic charm.

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There are at least seven groups of weed whackers, an average of 100 individuals each month, who get up at the break of dawn several times a week to feel the satisfying shred of buffelgrass being pulled out of the desert floor.

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The wildflowers and native grasses that garland the land once hoarded by buffelgrass show the Weedwackers 'efforts are working, but the volunteers simply can't keep up.

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Some are predicting that if it continues at its current pace, buffelgrass could swallow 60 per cent of the park by 2018, threatening to transform this diverse desert into the barren African grassland from where it came.

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The complex landscape they inhabit is being devoured by the voracious, invasive buffelgrass.

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The wildflowers and native grasses that garland the land once hoarded by buffelgrass show the Weedwackers 'efforts are working, but the volunteers simply can't keep up.

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Learn the results of recent research into fire behavior in buffelgrass.

Desert News newsblog 2010

There are at least seven groups of weed whackers, an average of 100 individuals each month, who get up at the break of dawn several times a week to feel the satisfying shred of buffelgrass being pulled out of the desert floor.

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