Deforestation Carbon Stock Tables
Executive Summary
The Government (MAF) has requested estimates of carbon stocks by stand age for various tree species and tending regimes in nine growth model regions. These carbon stock tables are intended to be used for the calculation of carbon emissions through deforestation.
This report provides the requested carbon stock tables and describes how they were constructed. In each case, the most applicable growth model was selected to construct a stem volume yield tables for various species and regimes, e.g. 300Index for radiata pine and 500Index for Douglas-fir. The modelled regimes were supplied by MAF and the resulting volume yield tables were converted to carbon stocks using the carbon model, C_Change.
The modelled stem volume yield tables were compared with the 1995 NEFD yield tables and on request by MAF a scaling factor of 0.717 was applied to the modelled yield tables and to the resulting carbon stocks.
The reported tables do not purport to represent actual carbon stored in any one specific stand, nor the expected mean values for any geographical region.
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