Carbon accounting and savanna fire management / editors, Brett P. Murphy [and three others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Murphy, Brett P., editor.

Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (Australia)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Greenhouse gas mitigation--Australia, Northern.

Greenhouse gas mitigation.

Savanna ecology--Australia, Northern.

Savanna ecology.

Wilderness areas--Fire management--Australia, Northern.

Wilderness areas.

Carbon dioxide mitigation--Australia, Northern.

Carbon dioxide mitigation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (368 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Clayton, Victoria : CSIRO Publishing, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Explores methodologies for accounting for greenhouse gas emissions abatement from savanna fire management.

Contents:

Carbon Accounting and Savanna Fire Management

Contents

Preface and acknowledgements

List of contributors

1 Reimagining fire management in fire-prone northern Australia

Introduction

Fire mapping and contemporary burning patterns

Ecological and cultural landscapes

A reimagined future for managing the savannas

Fire management in a transformed savanna economy

2 Fire patterns in north Australian savannas: extending the reach of incentives for savanna fire emissions abatement

Methods

Results

Discussion

3 Fire extent mapping: procedures, validation and website application

Burnt area mapping methods

NAFI MODIS validation methods

4 Vegetation fuel type classification for lower rainfall savanna burning abatement projects

Vegetation fuel type classification

Vegetation fuel type class

Mapping fuel types

5 The operational role of satellite-based fire data in savanna burning methodologies

Recommendations

6 Fuel accumulation, consumption and fire patchiness in the lower rainfall savanna region

Field program

Fuel load accumulation

Fire patchiness

Burning efficiency factors (BEFs)

Discussion and summary

7 Leaf and coarse fuel accumulation and relationships with vegetation attributes in 'evergreen' tropical eucalypt savannas

Data preparation

Results and discussion

Conclusion

8 Measuring and mapping fire severity in the tropical savannas

Methods and results

9 Biomass combustion and emission processes in the northern Australian savannas

Definitions: emission factors and MCE

Emissions from low rainfall savannas in northern Australia.

Emission factors and the CFI

Conclusions

10 Application of a lower rainfall savanna burning emissions abatement methodology

Fire frequency in the lower rainfall savanna burning abatement regional envelope

Outline of the lower rainfall savanna burning abatement methodology

Applying the lower rainfall abatement methodology to project examples

11 Reconciling 'bottom-up' and 'top-down' greenhouse gas accounting methodologies for savanna burning in northern Australia

Regional greenhouse gas accounting for the savanna woodlands

Top-down accounting for reconciling bottom-up GHG methodologies

Assessment of the accuracy of regional predictions

Options for operational methods for estimating regional emissions: constraining and verifying CFI projects

12 Fire or water: which limits tree biomass in Australian savannas?*

Climatic controls

Disturbance-based controls

Evidence from long-term fire experiments

Demonstrated short-term impacts of fire on northern Australian savanna trees

How important is the fire-mediated recruitment bottleneck in Australian savannas?

Are northern Australian savannas special?

Other disturbance-based controls of savanna tree biomass

Woody thickening in savannas

Managing fire to increase tree biomass in Australian savannas

13 Predicting the effects of fire management on carbon stock dynamics using statistical and process-based modelling

The Three Parks analysis

The flames analysis

Validation of the flames model output

Utility of the flames model

Impact of fire on carbon as predicted by the flames model

Generalisation of the predictions

Reconciliation of the results

Conclusions.

14 Towards a methodology for increased carbon sequestration in dead fuels through implementation of less severe fire regimes in savannas

Methodology scope

Calculation of carbon stock for the baseline period and the project period

Project eligibility

Permanence and the time to reach equilibrium

Greenhouse gas assessment boundary

Key uncertainties

15 Where to from here?

Mapping issues

Savanna burning abatement issues

Carbon sequestration

Implementation

Policy issues

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 30, 2015).

ISBN:

9780643108530

064310853X

9780643108523

0643108521

OCLC:

900457791