BIOMASS AND CARBON ESTIMATES: HYPOTHETICAL NO-DISTURBANCE SCENARIO

Our analyses reveal that the vegetation over significant areas of the GWW has been highly disturbed by direct and indirect human impacts (Figure 3.18) and consequently is below its carbon carrying capacity. The disturbance factors of changed fire regimes (primarily due to increases in human ignition...

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Hauptverfasser:	Sandra Berry, Heather Keith, Brendan Mackey, Matthew Brookhouse, Justin Jonson
Format:	Buchkapitel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Biocenosis Biological sciences Biology Biomass Botany Ecology Plant communities Plant ecology Population ecology Synecology Vegetation Vegetation structure Woodlands
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Zusammenfassung:	Our analyses reveal that the vegetation over significant areas of the GWW has been highly disturbed by direct and indirect human impacts (Figure 3.18) and consequently is below its carbon carrying capacity. The disturbance factors of changed fire regimes (primarily due to increases in human ignition), timber cutting and mining appear to have altered the vegetation structures such that the extant vegetation cannot be correlated with, and predicted from, environmental factors alone, as would be expected for natural ecosystems. As we noted in Sections 2.4 and 3.22, the published maps of pre-disturbance condition (AUSLIG 1990 and NVIS 3.0, DEWHA 2005)