Are there any circumstances in which logging primary wet-eucalypt forest will not add to the global carbon burden?

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 161, Issue , 2012, Pages 156-169

  Dean, Christopher ^a,b,c   Wardell Johnson, Grant W ^b   Kirkpatrick, James B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Carbon emission; Carbon sequestration; Clearfell; Climate change positive feedback; Old growth; Wood products

Indexed keywords

CARBON EMISSION; CARBON FLUX; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CLEARCUTTING; CLIMATE CHANGE; DICOTYLEDON; FOREST MANAGEMENT; GLOBAL CHANGE; HARVESTING; LOGGING (TIMBER); MIXED FOREST; OLD-GROWTH FOREST; PHYTOMASS; RAINFOREST; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; UNDERSTORY; WOOD;

AUSTRALIA; TASMANIA;

EID: 84859932814     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2012.03.021     Document Type: Article

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