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9 March 2011
Greenfleet helps CSIRO build new carbon models for biodiverse forests
With more than 13 years' experience in planting native forests for carbon capture, Greenfleet is assisting CSIRO to develop improved models for measuring the carbon sequestered in Australian forests.
This work is part of the 'National project on refinement of Australia's National Carbon Accounting System for estimating carbon stored in the biomass of environmental and mallee plantings,' a project funded by the Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency and CSIRO, with collaboration from a range of state government departments, universities and industry.
The project aims to increase the capacity and improve the accuracy of the National Carbon Accounting System (NCAS) to account for biodiverse plantings, which are currently based on conservative estimates (environmental plantings[i]) or no default values at all (mallee plantings).
Greenfleet has provided CSIRO with data gathered during in-field monitoring and measurement of Greenfleet's biodiverse forests. This data includes measurements of individual trees (used to calculate the tree's mass weight and amount of carbon), together with contextual information such as previous land use, proximity to surface and ground water, soil fertility and weed pressures.
CSIRO will combine Greenfleet's information with data from other planting projects around Australia to investigate how different site and management factors influence the carbon accumulation of these plantings.
All of this information helps CSIRO finesse the NCAS model with real world data and ground-truth some of the existing assumptions to produce a more accurate next-generation NCAS.
Greenfleet is pleased to contribute to such an important project, which we know will demonstrate the impressive carbon storage capabilities of environmental plantings, in addition to their many other benefits including habitat for wildlife, increased biodiversity, and improved water, air and soil quality.
[i] Environmental plantings refers to revegetation projects that contain a variety of tree species, with species varying from one area to another - based on the local conditions. The majority of carbon models are currently based on single species plantations.