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Review of Allometric Relationships for Estimating Woody Biomass for New South Wales, the Australian Capital Territory, Victoria, Tasmania and South Australia

National Carbon Accounting System - Technical Report No. 5B

Heather Keith, Damian Barrett, Rod Keenan, August 2000

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Abstract

The Kyoto Protocol of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) stipulates mechanisms (eg. Article 3.3, 3.7, Clean Development Mechanisms, and Joint Implementation) whereby storage of carbon in terrestrial sinks may be allowable for inclusion in national greenhouse gas inventories. This includes post-1990 C storage in forests as an allowable C-sink to offset fossil fuel based greenhouse gas emissions.

Predicting the effect of landuse and climate change on the role of forests in the carbon cycle requires an understanding of how climate, resource availability, stand development and forest management practices influence biomass production, accumulation and allocation.