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Framework Report on the Development of the National Carbon Monitoring System

February 2002; Contract Report Number: JNT0001/121

Maggie Lawton1 and James Barton2

1 Landcare Research, Private Bag 3127, Hamilton
2 Ministry for the Environment, PO Box 10362, Wellington

Reviewed by: Approved for release by:
Peter Stephens Maggie Lawton
Scientist Science Manager
Landcare Research Rural land-use effects

Contents

1. Executive Summary

2. Climate Change and Greenhouse Gas Mitigation

3. Developing the 1990 Baseline for Soils

4. A National Monitoring System For Soil Carbon

5 Development of Baseline 1990 Estimates for Forest and Scrub

7 An Information Management System for the CMS

8 International Review of the CMS Development

9 Response to the Review

10 Application of the Generalised Linear Model to Soils Data (Giltrap et al. 2001)

12 Potential Other End-User Requirements

13 Integration of the LCDB with the CMS (Stephens et al. 2001)

14 Improved Allometric Functions for Forest and Scrubland (Beets et al. 2001)

15 Forest Sampling Options for the CMS

16 Costs of a Proposed Structure

17 A Proposed Structure for the CMS

18 Concluding Remarks

20 APPENDICES

Tables

Table 1 Recommendations of highest importance and highest priority for implementation

Table 2 Reports from CMS Database

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