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New Sinks: Managing the rangelands
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New Sinks: Managing the rangelands

R.J. Harper
Report to Council. WA Greenhouse Council, Sustainable Land Management Technical Panel
Government of Western Australia. Environmental Protection Authority
1999

Abstract

The Bureau of Resource Sciences has estimated that an additional 315 Mt of organic carbon could potentially be sequestered through the rehabilitation of deteriorated pastures in the northern Australian rangelands, with a further 144 Mt of carbon sequestered if seriously degraded land was rehabilitated (Rossiter and Lambert, 1998). To this could be added the reduction in emissions through more effective fire management practices in the Kimberley...

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