Changing Australian vegetation from 1788 to 1988: effects of CO2 and land use change

Berry, Sandra Lee; Roderick, Michael

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Changing Australian vegetation from 1788 to 1988: effects of CO2 and land use change

Date

2006

Authors

Berry, Sandra Lee

Roderick, Michael

Publisher

CSIRO Publishing

Abstract

We present a tractable and transparent approach (the TMSC model) to estimating the total stock of carbon (roots, stems and leaves) in living vegetation (C living), from gross primary productivity (GPP) estimates. The TMSC model utilises the TMS scheme of