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Research and Reports
 On this page
you will find a bibliography of references, research and reports
detailing the carbon-storage value of old growth forests and the
importance of preserving old forests in the fight against global
warming. This information may assist you in finding out more about the
issues or preparing your own research. Articles are listed under author and title. Some entries have links to the entire article online.This bibliography is being updated. New research will be added as it is released. If you know of any research or reports that you think should be included please contact us. Author(s): Australia's Environment Groups Title: Climate Change Policy Agenda Publication: ACF Online - www.acfonline.org.au/uploads/res_AusEnviro_policy.pdf Description: A joint policy statement from Australia's leading environmental NGO's. Includes a statement on tackling emissions from logging and highlights values of old growth forests. Author(s): Boyer, Peter (The Climate Project) Title: Smokescreen Hides the Truth Publication: The Mercury Newspaper, Tasmania, 29 May, 2008. http://www.news.com.au/mercury/story/0,22884,23615712-5006550,00.html Description: Opinion article, details climate impacts of Tasmanian native forest logging and burning. Author(s): Climate Action Network Australia (CANA) Title: Briefing paper on carbon sinks. Publication: CANA Website - www.cana.net.au/Policies_positions/policy01carbonsinks.html Description: Discusses CANA's position on forests as carbon sinks. Outlines value of preserving old forests as opposed to establishing new plantations. Author(s): Climate Action Network Australia (CANA) Title: Turning Down the Heat- A climate change action agenda for Australia. Publication: CANA Website - www.cana.net.au/Policies_positions/TurningDowntheHeatWEB.pdf Description: A comprehensive strategy document produced by Climate Action Network Australia. Author(s): Dean, C. and Wardell-Johnson, G. Title: Old-growth forests, carbon and climate change: Functions and management for tall open-forests in two hotspots of temperate Australia. Publication: Plant Biosystems. 2010. 1-14. Download here. Description: Scientific paper outlines increased carbon emissions from old growth forests subject to logging in temperate australian carbon 'hotspots'. Author(s): Dean, C. et al. Title: Growth Modeling of E. regnans for Carbon Accounting at the Landscape Scale. Publication: Modelling Forest systems, Edited by Amaro, A., Reed, D., Soares, P. , 2003 CABI Publishing, pp 27-39. Available online - www.greenhouse.crc.org.au/crc/ecarbon/publications/DeanFSPM2004paper.pdf Description: Details higher carbon storage capacity of old growth forests in Tasmania and Victoria, and reductions in carbon storage after logging rotations. Author(s): The Green Institute Title: Forests, vital for climate protection Publication: Green Institute website: http://www.greeninstitute.com.au/images/uploads/Forests_-_vital_for_climate_protection.pdf Description: Native forest have a vital role in Australia’s greenhouse gas profile, as a very large store of CO2 and as a source of greenhouse gas emissions, primarily resulting from logging. This paper estimates that logging produces emissions of 38 Mt CO2 per annum, equivalent to 7% of Australia’s total emissions. Depending on the age of the forest, it will take up to several centuries to recapture all of the CO2 emitted. Author(s): The Green Institute Title: Biocarbon, biodiversity and climate change. A REDD Plus scheme for Australia. Publication: Green Institute website: http://www.greeninstitute.com.au/content/index.php?/site/projects/forests_and_greenhouse/ Description: Working Paper 3. Outlines the need for Australia's own REDD Plus scheme, which reduces emissions from forest degredation and maximises the value of "biocarbon" stored in living ecosystems. Author(s): Harmon, M. et al. Title: Effects on Carbon Storage of Conversion of Old-Growth Forests to Young Forests. Publication: Science, Vol. 247. 9 February, 1990. pp. 699-701. Available Online - academic.evergreen.edu/curricular/ftts/downloadsw/harmonetal1990.pdf Description: Outlines decreasing carbon storage capacity of younger regrowth forests after logging. Author: Luyssaert, Sebastiaan. et al. Title: Old-growth forests as global carbon sinks. Publication: Nature 455, 213-215 (11 September 2008). Summary and link to purchase full text at http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v455/n7210/full/nature07276.html Description: Scientific literary review, disputes claims that old growth forests are in carbon "balance" and highlights ability of old growth forests to continue sequestering carbon as they age, therefore offering climate change mitigation benefits. Author: Mackey, Brendan. et al. Title: Green Carbon: the role of natural forests in carbon storage. Part 1. Publication: Published 2008 in book format by ANU, available online at http://epress.anu.edu.au/green_carbon/pdf_instructions.html Description: groundbreaking scientific report by ANU experts, reveals higher carbon storage values in Australian native forests and carbon losses from logging. Author: Mackey, Brendan. Title: Save the forests- they are crucial to reducing carbon dioxide. Publication: The Age newspaper, August 7, 2007. Click here to download. Description: Great, concise article by Australian National University Professor and expert on the impacts of climate change on ecosystems and biodiversity. Author(s): New Scientist Title: Tree farms won't halt climate change Publication: New Scientist, October 2002. Available online - www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn2958 Description: Explains how conserving existing old forests is a more effective means of carbon sequestration than planting new trees. Author(s): Oregon Wild Title: The Straight Facts on Forests, Carbon and Global Warming. Publication: Available online at http://www.oregonwild.org/ Description: American focussed factual summary with good background information and helpfull responses to logging industry "myths". Author: Trevor Poulton Title: Defining, Identifying and Protecting Old-growth Forest in Victoria Publication: Save Goolengook Inc (No A0048371A) www.goolengook.green.net.au Download Description: Provides an understanding of the term ‘old-growth forest’ and how it has been identified by the state government in the field. Also, examines appropriate and transparent methodologies for identifying and monitoring the protection of old-growth forest. Author(s): Schulze E. et al. Title: Managing Forests After Kyoto. Publication: Science, Vol 289. 22 September, 2000. pp. 2058-2059. Description: Recommends preserving older forests as a more effective mitgation measure than planting younger forests. Author(s): Roxburgh, S.H., Wood, S.W., Mackey, B.G., Woldendorp, G. and Gibbons, P. Title: Assessing the carbon sequestration potential of managed forests: a case study from temperate Australia Publication: Journal of Applied Ecology, Volume 43, Number 6, December 2006, pp. 1149-1159 Description: Shows that logging dramatically reduces the level of carbon stores despite significant regrowth because the older larger trees account for the majority of the carbon in the forest. It was estimated that in a mixed Eucalypt forest in NSW it would take at least 152 years for a forest’s carbon carrying capacity to return to greater than 90% of its pre-logged levels. Author(s): The Wilderness Society (Australia) Title: Trees- the forgotten solution to climate change. Publication: 2006 Briefing paper. Click here to download. Description: Seven page briefing document highlighting the carbon storage values of Australia's native forest and the impacts of logging on emissions. Author(s): The Wilderness Society (Australia) Title: Copy of Upper Florentine Carbon Estimates Publication: Unpublished scientific data showing measurements of carbon in old growth forest in the Upper Florentine Valley, in Excel Format. Description: Unpublished scientific data. Click here to download. Author(s): World Wildlife Fund and World Conservation Union (IUCN) Title: Arborvitae 34, October 2007 Publication: IUCN/WWF Forest Conservation Newsletter. Click here to download. Description: A collection of articles and opinion analyzing the political and practical dimensions of protecting forests in the light of post-Kyoto climate change negotiations. Author(s): Zhou, G. et al. Title: Old-growth Forests Can Accumulate Carbon in Soils. Publication: Science, 1 December 2006: Vol. 314. no. 5804, p. 1417 Description: Challenges conventional view that old growth forests do not continue to sequester carbon by examining ongoing carbon storage in soils in old growth forest in China. |