Our "rangelands" and the "Range ASSESS©" framework

Definition: Rangelands are lands on which native vegetation is predominantly: grasses, grass-like plants, forbs, or shrubs. They include land revegetated naturally or artificially when routine vegetation management is accomplished mainly through manipulation of grazing. Rangelands include natural grasslands, savannas, shrublands, most deserts, tundra, alpine communities, coastal marshes and wet meadows." Def'n: http://www.roseworthy.adelaide.edu.au/~icooper/glossary/r.htm

Rangelands make up approximately two-thirds of Australia and therefore constitute an enormous and important land area when assessing Australia's carbon inventory and subsequent carbon sink potential.

Read about a new method of assessment for Australian rangelands in the CRC's publication "Range ASSESS: A Spatial Framework for Analysis of Carbon Potential in Rangelands".

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Useful Resources


 

• Net Ecosystem Exchange - CRC 2001
  
• Third Assessment Report, Climate Change 2001 (IPCC)
• Australian Natural Resources Atlas (NLWRA)
• National Carbon Accounting System;  NCAS Publications (AGO)
• Climate Change Projections (CSIRO)
• Climate Change Impacts on Australia (CSIRO)
• The Global Climate - World Meterological Organisation (2001)
• The role of sinks in Australia's GHG objectives