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FORESTS today play an increasingly important role in the carbon cycle by exchanging greenhouse gasses with the atmosphere.
Forests store carbon in both living and dead biomass and carbon continues to be stored in wood products. Another potential role of forests in reducing greenhouse gas emissions is substituting more greenhouse gas intensive products. Forest fibre can substitute fossil fuels as an energy source and can substitute metals and concrete in construction. Metals and concrete generate more greenhouse gas emissions to supply for use than the wood equivalent.
The Ecological Society of America 2010 Spring publication Issues in Ecology provides a straight forward plain language and balanced summary of carbon and forest science, the principles of which will largely apply to the Australian context. Click link to read: Issues in Ecology - Report Number 13 [1,387 kb PDF]
