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oapen-20.500.12657-337372021-11-04T14:13:36Z Green Carbon Part 2. Berry, Sandra Keith, Heather Mackey, Brendan Brookhouse, Matthew Jonson, Justin carbon forests plants environmental aspects Biomass Canopy (biology) Eucalyptus Hectare Logging Shrubland Woodland bic Book Industry Communication::R Earth sciences, geography, environment, planning::RN The environment::RNA Environmentalist thought & ideology bic Book Industry Communication::T Technology, engineering, agriculture::TV Agriculture & farming::TVR Forestry & silviculture: practice & techniques This report is the second in a series that examines the role of natural forests and woodlands in the storage of carbon. Understanding the role of natural ecosystems in carbon storage is an important part of solving the climate change problem. This report presents a landscape-wide green carbon account of the ‘Great Western Woodlands’ (GWW), sixteen million hectares of mostly contiguous natural woody vegetation to the east of the wheatbelt in south-western Western Australia. For the first time, we provide an overview of the vegetation structure, climate, geology and historical land use of the GWW, and examine how these interact to affect the carbon dynamics of this region’s landscape ecosystems. An analysis of time-series of satellite imagery is used to develop a fire history of the GWW since the 1970s. These layers of environmental information, along with field survey data and remotely sensed greenness, are used to construct a spatial model to estimate biomass carbon stocks of the woodlands at the present day, and to infer an upper limit to the carbon sequestration potential of the GWW. A range of management options to enable protection of high quality carbon stocks and restoration of degraded stocks are evaluated. 2013-11-11 00:00:00 2020-04-01T14:54:59Z 2020-04-01T14:54:59Z 2010 book 459257 OCN: 959150446 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/33737 eng application/pdf n/a 459257.pdf http://epress.anu.edu.au/titles/green_carbon2_citation ANU Press 10.26530/OAPEN_459257 10.26530/OAPEN_459257 ddc8cc3f-dd57-40ef-b8d5-06f839686b71 124 Canberra open access
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This report is the second in a series that examines the role of natural forests and woodlands in the storage of carbon. Understanding the role of natural ecosystems in carbon storage is an important part of solving the climate change problem. This report presents a landscape-wide green carbon account of the ‘Great Western Woodlands’ (GWW), sixteen million hectares of mostly contiguous natural woody vegetation to the east of the wheatbelt in south-western Western Australia. For the first time, we provide an overview of the vegetation structure, climate, geology and historical land use of the GWW, and examine how these interact to affect the carbon dynamics of this region’s landscape ecosystems. An analysis of time-series of satellite imagery is used to develop a fire history of the GWW since the 1970s. These layers of environmental information, along with field survey data and remotely sensed greenness, are used to construct a spatial model to estimate biomass carbon stocks of the woodlands at the present day, and to infer an upper limit to the carbon sequestration potential of the GWW. A range of management options to enable protection of high quality carbon stocks and restoration of degraded stocks are evaluated.
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