Green Carbon The role of naTural foresTs in Carbon sToraGe Part 2. Biomass carbon stocks in the Great Western Woodlands Sandra Berry, Heather Keith, Brendan Mackey, Matthew Brookhouse, and Justin Jonson* The Fenner School of Environment & Society, The Australian National University * Greening Australia, Western Australia Published by ANU E Press The Australian National University Canberra ACT 0200, Australia Email:
[email protected] Web: http://epress.anu.edu.au Online version available at: http://epress.anu.edu.au/green_carbon2_citation.html National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication entry Title: Green carbon : the role of natural forests in carbon storage Part 2. Biomass carbon stocks in the Great Western Woodlands / Sandra. Berry ... [et al.] ISBN: 9781921666704 (pbk. : Part 2) Subjects: Carbon--Environmental aspects. Forests and forestry--Environmental aspects. Plants--Effect of atmospheric carbon dioxide on. Carbon dioxide mitigation. Other Authors/Contributors: Berry, Sandra L. Dewey Number: 577.3144 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher. Printed by Griffin Press This edition © 2010 ANU E Press Design by ANU E Press Cover photograph: Eucalyptus woodland, Great Western Woodlands, Western Australia, Sandra Berry ContentS Acknowledgments 5 executive Summary 7 1. Introduction 11 1.1 Background 11 1.2 Aims 13 2. environment and history of the GWW 15 2.1 Topography 15 2.2 Climate range and variability 17 2.3 Geology and soils 19 2.4 Vegetation 20 2.5 Timber cutting in the GWW 25 2.6 Overview of anthropogenic impacts in the GWW 28 3.