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Framework Report on the Development of the National Carbon Monitoring System

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

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

There is a lack of biomass data for New Zealand indigenous species and for scrub but progress was made in the final year of the programme in extending the amount of biomass data for indigenous forest and scrub through historical data and new measurements. The measurements were carried out according to strict protocols developed for the CMS. An associated methodology for calculating coarse woody debris was also developed.

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