Image: New Zealand land-use map by IPCC category, 1990

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Land-use map of New Zealand in 1990, recognising the following land-use categories:

• forest land*, comprising
  • natural forest
  • pre-1990 planted forest
  • post-1989 forest ('Kyoto forest')
• cropland
  • annual
  • perennial
• grassland, including
  • high-producing grassland
  • low- producing grassland
  • grassland with woody biomass
• wetlands
• settlements and
• other lands.

*The LUCAS team is concerned mostly with soils and aboveground biomass in forests. For the remaining areas, such as wetlands and settlements, UNFCCC default conversion factors are applied to obtain their contribution to national carbon emissions.