Firewood harvest from forests of the Murray-Darling Basin, Australia. Part 2: Plantation resource required to supply present demand

The Murray-Darling Basin covers 1 M km 2 and occupies most of inland, south-eastern, mainland Australia. Large areas have been cleared and are now used for agriculture. In this paper, estimates are made of the minimum area of Eucalyptus globulus plantation forests needed to be established in the Bas...

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Published in:Biomass & bioenergy 2008-12, Vol.32 (12), p.1220-1226
Main Authors: West, P.W., Cawsey, E.M., Stol, J., Freudenberger, D.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Applied sciences
Biological and medical sciences
Biomass
Energy
Eucalypt
Exact sciences and technology
Firewood
Forestry
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Generalities. Production, biomass. Quality of wood and forest products. General forest ecology
Murray-Darling Basin
Natural energy
Plantations
Production. Biomass
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Summary:The Murray-Darling Basin covers 1 M km 2 and occupies most of inland, south-eastern, mainland Australia. Large areas have been cleared and are now used for agriculture. In this paper, estimates are made of the minimum area of Eucalyptus globulus plantation forests needed to be established in the Basin to supply 2.25 M oven-dry t yr −1 of firewood annually, the amount of firewood harvested presently from the native forests which remain in the Basin. If plantations were established in higher rainfall areas along the eastern and southern boundaries of the Basin, it was estimated that a minimum of just over 200,000 ha of plantations would be required, grown on a 10-yr rotation. If plantations were restricted to less productive areas of lower rainfall (
ISSN:0961-9534
1873-2909
DOI:10.1016/j.biombioe.2008.02.018