Carbon Accounting and Savanna Fire Management.

Carbon Accounting and Savanna Fire Management -- Contents -- Preface and acknowledgements -- List of contributors -- 1 Reimagining fire management in fire-prone northern Australia -- Introduction -- Fire mapping and contemporary burning patterns -- Ecological and cultural landscapes -- A reimagined future for managing the savannas -- Fire management in a transformed savanna economy -- 2 Fire patterns in north Australian savannas: extending the reach of incentives for savanna fire emissions abatement -- Introduction -- Methods -- Results -- Discussion -- 3 Fire extent mapping: procedures, validation and website application -- Introduction -- Burnt area mapping methods -- NAFI MODIS validation methods -- Discussion -- 4 Vegetation fuel type classification for lower rainfall savanna burning abatement projects -- Introduction -- Vegetation fuel type classification -- Vegetation fuel type class -- Mapping fuel types -- 5 The operational role of satellite-based fire data in savanna burning methodologies -- Introduction -- Methods -- Results -- Discussion -- Recommendations -- 6 Fuel accumulation, consumption and fire patchiness in the lower rainfall savanna region -- Introduction -- Field program -- Fuel load accumulation -- Fire patchiness -- Burning efficiency factors (BEFs) -- Discussion and summary -- 7 Leaf and coarse fuel accumulation and relationships with vegetation attributes in 'evergreen' tropical eucalypt savannas -- Introduction -- Methods -- Data preparation -- Results and discussion -- Conclusion -- 8 Measuring and mapping fire severity in the tropical savannas -- Introduction -- Methods and results -- Discussion -- Conclusion -- 9 Biomass combustion and emission processes in the northern Australian savannas -- Introduction -- Definitions: emission factors and MCE -- Emissions from low rainfall savannas in northern Australia.

Emission factors and the CFI -- Conclusions -- 10 Application of a lower rainfall savanna burning emissions abatement methodology -- Introduction -- Fire frequency in the lower rainfall savanna burning abatement regional envelope -- Outline of the lower rainfall savanna burning abatement methodology -- Applying the lower rainfall abatement methodology to project examples -- 11 Reconciling 'bottom-up' and 'top-down' greenhouse gas accounting methodologies for savanna burning in northern Australia -- Introduction -- Regional greenhouse gas accounting for the savanna woodlands -- Top-down accounting for reconciling bottom-up GHG methodologies -- Assessment of the accuracy of regional predictions -- Options for operational methods for estimating regional emissions: constraining and verifying CFI projects -- 12 Fire or water: which limits tree biomass in Australian savannas?* -- Introduction -- Climatic controls -- Disturbance-based controls -- Evidence from long-term fire experiments -- Demonstrated short-term impacts of fire on northern Australian savanna trees -- How important is the fire-mediated recruitment bottleneck in Australian savannas? -- Are northern Australian savannas special? -- Other disturbance-based controls of savanna tree biomass -- Woody thickening in savannas -- Managing fire to increase tree biomass in Australian savannas -- Conclusions -- 13 Predicting the effects of fire management on carbon stock dynamics using statistical and process-based modelling -- Introduction -- The Three Parks analysis -- The flames analysis -- Validation of the flames model output -- Utility of the flames model -- Impact of fire on carbon as predicted by the flames model -- Generalisation of the predictions -- Reconciliation of the results -- Conclusions.

14 Towards a methodology for increased carbon sequestration in dead fuels through implementation of less severe fire regimes in savannas -- Introduction -- Methodology scope -- Calculation of carbon stock for the baseline period and the project period -- Project eligibility -- Permanence and the time to reach equilibrium -- Greenhouse gas assessment boundary -- Key uncertainties -- Conclusion -- 15 Where to from here? -- Introduction -- Mapping issues -- Savanna burning abatement issues -- Carbon sequestration -- Implementation -- Policy issues -- Index.

Explores methodologies for accounting for greenhouse gas emissions abatement from savanna fire management.

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