Publications

Barnetson, J., Pandeya, H. R., & Fraser, G. (2026). Hierarchical spectral modelling of pasture nutrition: From laboratory to Sentinel-2 via UAV hyperspectral. AgriEngineering, 8(4), 143. 

Barnetson, J., Pandeya, H. R., & Fraser, G. (2026). Pasture biomass monitoring in Queensland rangelands with UAV and satellite cascades. AgriEngineering, 8(8), 317.

Irvine, S. A., Carter, J. O., & Stone, G. S. (2026). Mapping Livestock Distribution in Australia: An Estimate to Annual Domestic Livestock Densities from 1788 to 1980. Australian Geographer, 1–25. 

Lin, Y. (2026). The Journey of Long Paddock: A Teaching Case of Digital Platform Innovation for Climate Adaptation. Communications of the Association for Information Systems, 58(1), 85.

Hughes, N., Gaydon, D., Gupta, M., Schepen, A., Tan, P., Brent, G., Turner, A., Bellew, S., Soh, W. Y., Sharman, C., Taylor, P., Carter, J., Bruget, D., Hochman, Z., Searle, R., Song, Y., Mitchell, P., Beletse, Y., Holzworth, D., Guillory, L., Brodie, C., McComb, J., & Singh, R. (2025). Monitoring agricultural and economic drought: the Australian Agricultural Drought Indicators (AADI). Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 25(9), 3461-3482.

Schepen, A., Bolt, A., Bruget, D., Carter, J., Gaydon, D., Gupta, M., Hochman, Z., Hughes, N., Sharman, C., Tan, P., & Taylor, P. (2025). Forecasting agricultural drought: the Australian Agricultural Drought Indicators. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 25(10), 4053-4070.

Henry B., Allen D., Badgery W., Bray S., Carter J., Dalal R. C., Hall W., Harrison M. T., McDonald S. E., & McMillan H. (2024). Soil carbon sequestration in rangelands: A critical review of the impacts of major management strategies. The Rangeland Journal 46, RJ24005.

Fordyce G., Shephard R., Moravek T., & McGowan M. R. (2023). Australian cattle herd: A new perspective on structure, performance and production. Animal Production Science 63, 410-421.

Woodrow, L., Carter, J., Fraser, G., & Barnetson, J. (2023). Using continuous output neural nets to estimate pasture biomass from digital photographs in grazing lands. AgriEngineering, 5, 1051-1067.

Zhang, H., Jeffrey, S., & Carter, J. (2022). Improved quality gridded surface wind speed datasets for Australia. Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics, 134, Article 85.

Zund, P., Walton, J., Antoni, M. D., Harms, B., & Thomas, E. (2022). Soil bicarbonate-extractable P (Colwell-P) map of Queensland main grazing lands (GBP.0043). Queensland Department of Environment and Science; Meat and Livestock Australia Limited, North Sydney NSW.

Barnetson, J., Phinn, S., & Scarth, P. (2021). Climate-resilient grazing in the pastures of Queensland: An integrated remotely piloted aircraft system and satellite-based deep-learning method for estimating pasture yield. AgriEngineering. 3(3):681-702.

Irvine, S. (2021). Mapping drought declaration areas from 1936 to 1964 for Queensland, Australia. The Rangeland Journal 43(3) 109-119.

McKeon, G., Stone, G., Ahrens, D., Carter, J., Cobon, D., Irvine, S., & Syktus, J. (2021). Queensland’s multi-year Wet and Dry periods: implications for grazing enterprises and pasture resources. The Rangeland Journal 43(3) 121-142

Owens, J., McKeon, G., O’Reagain, P., Carter, J., Fraser, G., Nelson, B., & Scanlan, J. (2021). Disentangling the effects of management and climate on perennial grass pastures and the degradation that follows multi-year droughts. In Vervoort, R.W., Voinov, A.A., Evans, J.P., & Marshall, L. (Eds), MODSIM2021, 24th International Congress on Modelling and Simulation (pp. 85-91). Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand.

Paxton, G. (2021). Building cultural capital in drought adaptation: lessons from discourse analysis. The Rangeland Journal 43, 101-108.

Pringle, M., Bray, S., & Carter, J. (2021). Modelling the disappearance of coarse woody debris, following a land clearing event. Carbon Balance Manage, 16, Article 36.

Pringle, M., O'Reagain, P., Stone, G., Carter, J., Orton, T., & Bushell, J. (2021). Using remote sensing to forecast forage quality for cattle in the dry savannas of northeast Australia. Ecological Indicators, 133, Article 108426.

Stone G., Zhang B., Carter J., Fraser G., Whish G., Paton C., & McKeon G. (2021) An online system for calculating and delivering long-term carrying capacity information for Queensland grazing properties. Part 1: Background and development. The Rangeland Journal, 43, 143-157.

Zhang B., Fraser G., Carter J., Stone G., Irvine S., Whish G., Willcocks J., & McKeon G. (2021). An online system for calculating and delivering long-term carrying capacity information for Queensland grazing properties. Part 2: Modelling and outputs. The Rangeland Journal, 43, 159-172.

Barnetson, J., Phinn, S., & Scarth P. (2020) Estimating plant pasture biomass and quality from UAV imaging across Queensland’s rangelands. AgriEngineering. 2020; 2(4):523-543.

Cobon, D., Stone, G., Carter, J., McKeon, G., Zhang, B., & Heidemann, H. (2020). Native pastures and beef cattle show a spatially variable response to a changing climate in Queensland, Australia, European Journal of Agronomy,  114, Article 126002.

Cobon, D., Kouadio, L., Mushtaq, S., Jarvis, S., Carter, J., Stone, G., & Davis, P. (2019). Evaluating the shifts in rainfall and pasture-growth variabilities across the pastoral zone of Australia during 1910–2010. Crop and Pasture Science, 70(7), 634-647.

Stone, G., Dalla Pozza, R., Carter J., & McKeon, G. (2019). Long Paddock: Climate risk and grazing information for Australian rangelands and grazing communities. The Rangeland Journal, 41, 225–232

Zhang B., & Carter J. (2018)  FORAGE – An online system for generating and delivering property-scale decision support information for grazing land and environmental management. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, 150, 302-311

Fraser, G., Rohde, K., & Silburn, M. (2017). Fertiliser management effects on dissolved inorganic nitrogen in runoff from Australian sugarcane farms. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 189(8), Article 409.

Fraser G. W., & Stone G. S. (2016) The effect of soil and pasture attributes on rangeland infiltration rates in northern Australia. The Rangeland Journal 38, 245-259.

Schmidt, M., Carter, J., Stone, G., & O’Reagain, P. (2016). Integration of Optical and X-Band Radar Data for Pasture Biomass Estimation in an Open Savannah Woodland, Remote Sensing. 2016; 8(12):989.

Henley, B.J., Gergis, J., Karoly, D.J., Power, S.B., Kennedy, J., & Folland, C. K. (2015). A tripole index for the Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation. Climate Dynamics, 45(11-12), 3077–3090.

Star, M., Rolfe, J., Long, P., Whish, G., & Donaghy, P. (2015). Improved grazing management practices in the catchments of the Great Barrier Reef, Australia: does climate variability influence their adoption by landholders? The Rangeland Journal, 37(5), 507-515.

Bastin, G., Denham, R., Scarth, P., Sparrow, A., & Chewings, V. (2014). Remotely-sensed analysis of ground-cover change in Queensland’s rangelands, 1988–2005. The Rangeland Journal, 36(2), 191–204.

Mayer, D. (2013). Improved empirical models of cattle growth, reproduction and mortality from native pastures in northern Australia. (Final Report No. NBP.0641). Meat and Livestock Australia.

Bastin, G., Scarth, P., Chewings, V., Sparrow, A., Denham, R., Schmidt, M., O’Reagain, P. J., Shepherd, R., & Abbott, B. (2012). Separating grazing and rainfall effects at regional scale using remote sensing imagery: A dynamic reference-cover method. Remote Sensing of Environment, 121, 443–457.

Fraser, G. W., Carter, J., McKeon, G., & Day, K. (2011). A new empirical model of sub-daily rainfall intensity and its application in a rangeland biophysical model. The Rangeland Journal, 33, 37-48   

Grainger, S., Frederiksen, C., Zheng, X., Fereday, D., Folland, C., Jin, E., Kinter, J., Knight, J., Schubert, S., & Syktus, J. (2011). Modes of variability of Southern Hemisphere atmospheric circulation estimated by AGCMs. Climate Dynamics, 36(3-4), 473-490.

Klingaman, N.P.,  Woolnough, S. J., & Syktus, J. (2011). On the drivers of inter-annual and decadal rainfall variability in Queensland, Australia. International Journal of Climatology.

Liu, D.L., Timbal, B., Mo, J., & Fairweather, H. (2011). A GIS-based climate change adaptation strategy tool. International Journal of Climate Change Strategies and Management, 3(2).

Tessendorf, S. A., Bruintjes, R. T., Weeks, C., Wilson, J. W., Knight, C. A., Roberts, R. D., Peter, J. R., Collis, S., Buseck, P. R., Freney, E., Dixon, M., Pocernich, M., Ikeda, K., Axisa, D., Nelson, E., May, P., Richter, H., Piketh, S., Burger, R. P., Wilson, L.,  Siems, S. T., Manton, M., Stone, R. C., Pepler, A., Collins, D. R., Bringi, V. N., Thurai, M., Turner, L., & McRae, D. (2011). The Queensland Cloud Seeding Research Project. Bulletin of the American Meteorology Society.

Mahmood, R., Quintanar, A. I., Conner, G., Leeper, R., Dobler, S., Pielke, R. A., Beltran-Przekurat, A., Hubbard, K. G., Niyogi, D., Bonan, G., Lawrence, P., Chase, T., McNider, R., Wu, Y., McAlpine, C., Deo, R., Etter, A., Gameda, S., Qian, B., Carleton, A., Adegoke, J. O., Vezhapparambu, S., Asefi, S., Nair, U. S., Sertel, E., Legates, D. R., Hale, R., Frauenfeld, O. W., Watts, A., Shepherd, M., Mitra, C., Anantharaj, V. G., Fall, S., Chang, H., Lund, R., Treviño, A., Blanken, P., Du, J., & Syktus, J. (2010). Impacts of land use/land cover change on climate and future research priorities. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 91, 37-46. 

McAlpine, C. A., Ryan, J. G., Seabrook, L., Thomas, S., Dargusch, P. J., Syktus, J. I., Pielke Sr, R. A., Etter, A. E., Fearnside, P. M., & Laurance, W. F. (2010). More than CO2: A broader paradigm for managing climate change and variability to avoid ecosystem collapse. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability.

Rotstayn, L. D., Collier, M. A., Dix, M. R., Feng, Y., Gordon, H. B., O'Farrell, S. P., Smith, I. N. & Syktus, J. (2010). Improved simulation of Australian climate and ENSO-related rainfall variability in a global climate model with an interactive aerosol treatment. International Journal of Climatology, 30(7), 1067-1088.

Strand, L. B., Tong, S., Aird, R., & McRae, D. A. (2010). Vulnerability of eco-environmental health to climate change: the views of government stakeholders and other specialists in Queensland, Australia. BMC Public Health 2010, 10,  Article 441.

Tong, S., Maher, P., Fitzgerald, G., Mcrae, D., Verall, K., & Walker, D. (2010). Assessing the vulnerability of eco-environmental health to climate change.  International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 7(2), 546-564.

Cobon, D. H., Stone, G. S., Carter, J. O., Scanlan, J. C., Toombs, N. R., Zhang, X., Willcocks J., & McKeon, G. M. (2009). The climate change risk management matrix for the grazing industry of northern Australia. The Rangeland Journal, 31(1). Accessory Publications: Matrix diagrams in Microsoft Excel format]

McAlpine, C. A., Syktus, J., Ryan, J. G., Deo, R. C., McKeon, G. M., McGowan, H. A., & Phinn, S. R. (2009). A continent under stress: Interactions, feedbacks and risks associated with impact of modified land cover on Australia’s climate. Global Change Biology, 15(9), 2206–2223.

McKeon, G. M., Stone, G. S., Syktus, J. I., Carter, J. O., Flood, N. R., Ahrens, D. G., Bruget, D. N., Chilcott, C. R., Cobon, D. H., Cowley, R. A., Crimp, S. J., Fraser, G. W., Howden, S. M., Johnston, P. W., Ryan, J. G., Stokes, C. J., & Day, K. A. (2009). Climate change impacts on northern Australian rangeland livestock carrying capacity: A review of issues. The Rangeland Journal, 31(1).

Wheeler, M. C., Hendo, H. H., Cleland, S., Meinke, H., & Donald, A., (2009). Impacts of the Madden-Julian Oscillation on Australian rainfall and circulation. Journal of Climate, 22(6), 1482–1498. 

Cobon, D. H., Bell, K. L., Park, J. N., & Keogh, D. U. (2008). Summative evaluation of climate application activities with pastoralistists in western Queensland. The Rangland Journal, 30, 361-374.   

Kucharski, F., Scaife, A. A., Yoo, J. H., Folland, C. K., Kinter, J., Knight, J., Fereday, D., Fischer, A. M., Jin, E. K., Kröger, J., Lau, N.-C., Nakaegawa, T. M., Nath, J., Pegion, P., Rozanov, E., Schubert, S., Sporyshev, P. V., Syktus, J., Voldoire, A., Yoon, J. H., Zeng, N., & Zhou, T. (2008). The CLIVAR C20C Project: skill of simulating Indian monsoon rainfall on interannual to decadal timescales: Does GHG forcing play a role? Climate Dynamics. 

Lehmann, J., Skjemstad, J., Sohi, S., Carter, J., Barson, M., Falloon, P., Coleman, K., Woodbury, P., & Krull, E. (2008). Australian climate-carbon cycle feedback reduced by soil black carbon. Nature Geoscience, 832-835.