title: Carbon accounting model for forests in Australia.
abstract: CAMFor (Carbon Accounting Model for Forests) is a sophisticated spreadsheet model developed to assist in carbon accounting and projection. This model can integrate information from a range of alternate sources including user input, default parameters and third party model outputs to calculate the carbon flows associated with a stand of trees and the wood products derived from harvests of that stand. Carbon is tracked in the following pools: * Biomass (stemwood, branches, bark, fine and coarse roots, leaves and twigs) * Soil (organic matter and inert charcoal) * Debris (coarse and fine litter, slash, below ground dead material) * Products (waste wood, sawn timber, paper, biofuel, reconstituted wood products). These pools can be tracked following thinning, fires and over multiple rotations. A sensitivity module has been developed to assist examination of the important assumptions and inputs. This paper reviews the functionality of CAMFor and reports on its use in a case study to explore the precision of estimates of carbon sequestration in a eucalypt plantation. Information on variability in unbiased models, measurement accuracy and other sources of error are combined in a sensitivity analysis to estimate the overall precision of sequestration estimates.
authors.affiliation: Department of Forestry, Australian National University, Canberra ACT. cris.brack@anu.edu.au
authors.forename: C L
authors.initials: CL
authors.lastname: Brack
authors.forename: G P
authors.initials: GP
authors.lastname: Richards
mesh_terms: D001315:Australia; D018533:Biomass; D002244:Carbon / Q000032:analysis / Q000378:metabolism*; D005390:Fires; D016468:Forestry; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D010316:Particle Size; D018515:Plant Leaves; D012984:Software; D012987:Soil; D014197:Trees; D014934:Wood
chemical_list: D012987:Soil; D002244:Carbon