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Framework Report on the Development of the National Carbon Monitoring System

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

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15 Forest Sampling Options for the CMS

A short report covering concerns raised in the international review of the CMS recommended that:

Tests should be made of how the grid could be resolved into smaller or larger grid sizes including the use of nested plots
The pros and cons of selecting plots within a grid cell in a randomised manner be investigated
A method for estimating C stocks and their changes at varying levels of desired precision in different LC/LU classes and the implications for costs be addressed.

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