What is it about?
Money doesn't grow on trees, but carbon certainly grows on trees. Native forests in Australia play a major role in helping clean up the atmosphere and combating climate change. Actively growing trees capture carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and convert it to wood. Australia is the seventh most forested country in the world with enormous potential to capture carbon dioxide both in standing trees and in wood products. This study used data from seven decades of forest growth monitoring to provide realistic estimates on potential biomass stocks in native forests in Queensland, Australia
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Why is it important?
This study is first study in our knowledge to use decades of forest monitoring data as opposed to single inventory to estimate what is realistically achievable in biomass accumulation and stocks in various forest types in Queensland, Australia
Perspectives
Many attempts to provide best estimates of carbon capture potential of regional and global forests have been frustrated by lack of accurate representative data. This study was fortunate enough to have access to over 70 years of data from regularly monitored natural forest plots stretching over a 500 mm to 2000 mm annual rainfall gradient. This has enabled us to provide realistic landscape estimates of biomass stocks and increments.
Dr Michael R Ngugi
Queensland Government
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This page is a summary of: Long-term estimates of live above-ground tree carbon stocks and net change in managed uneven-aged mixed species forests of sub-tropical Queensland, Australia, Australian Forestry, October 2014, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/00049158.2014.979979.
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