Desert Uplands pasture photo standards
There are fifteen pasture photo standards and corresponding pasture yields for pasture communities in the Desert Uplands region. These include:
Note: a list of photo standards relevant to the Desert Uplands GLM region is included below.
- Alluvial (PDF, 417KB)
- Black speargrass (PDF, 580KB)
- Bluegrass, wiregrass (PDF, 489KB)
- Buffel grass (PDF, 925KB)
- Buffel regrowth (PDF, 493KB)
- Downs country (PDF, 488KB)
- Eucalypt woodlands (PDF, 490KB)
- Eucalyptus box and stylo (PDF, 488KB)
- Eucalyptus box (PDF, 446KB)
- Indian couch (PDF, 709KB)
- Lancewood, bendee, rosewood and spotted gum (PDF, 317KB)
- Mitchell grass (PDF, 723KB)
- Narrow-leaved ironbark (PDF, 635KB)
- Silver-leaved ironbark (PDF, 449KB)
- Spinifex desert uplands (PDF, 455KB)
- All of the Desert Uplands pasture photo standards combined (PDF, 7 MB)
Desert Uplands land types guide
The table below lists appropriate pasture photo standards for each land type in the Desert Uplands GLM region.
| Land type | Pasture photo-standards |
| Box country (DU01) | Black speargrass Eucalyptus box and stylo* Eucalypt box Indian couch |
| Channels and swamps associated with major streams (DU02)
|
Alluvial Black speargrass Buffel grass Buffel regrowth Eucalypt woodlands |
| Coolibah flats (DU03) | Alluvial Bluegrass/wiregrass |
| Downs country (DU04) | Downs country Mitchell grass |
| Frontage country (DU05) | Alluvial Black speargrass Buffel grass Buffel regrowth Eucalypt woodlands |
| Frontal dunes (DU06) | (little pasture) |
| Hard ironbark country (DU07) | Eucalypt woodlands Narrow-leafed ironbark |
| Ironbark country (DU08) | Eucalypt woodlands Narrow-leafed ironbark |
| Jump-ups (DU09) | Lancewood, bendee, rosewood and spotted gum |
| Lakebeds (DU07) | (little pasture) |
| Scrubs on deep clays (DU11) | Bluegrass/wiregrass Buffel grass Buffel regrowth |
| Scrubs on shallow clays (DU12) | Bluegrass/wiregrass |
| Yellowjacket country +/- wattles (DU13) | Black speargrass Spinifex desert uplands |
* ‘Eucalyptus box and stylo’ pastures are also found on most other eucalypt communities on medium to light textured soils, including ironbark and yellowjacket.