Tree growth prediction and carbon accounting
2003
Booth, T.H. (CSIRO [Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization] Forestry and Forest Products P.O. Box E4008, Kingston, Canberra ACT 2604 (Australia))
Three important questions when establishing a tree plantation for carbon sequestration are: which species to grow, how will they grow and how much carbon will they sequester? A number of computer-based systems have been developed to help answer these questions. This paper provides a brief introduction to these tools and indicate some of the ways in which they complement each other. For example, the CAB International Forestry Compendium CD-ROM [Compact Disk-Read Only Memory] includes a species selection module, which can identify species suitable for a wide range of uses and environments around the world. Climatic mapping programs developed by CSIRO [Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, Canberra, Australia] can accept information from the Compendium and map suitable areas for particular species at global or countrywide scales. Interpolated climatic data used to create the climatic mapping programs, allow simple tree growth models such as 3-PG, to be run for any site or for grids of hundreds or thousands of locations across a particular region. The 3-PG model can be used within a project-level Carbon Accounting Toolbox to provide information of the type likely to be required by the Clean Development Mechanism
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