Articles | Volume 26, issue 20
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-26-5357-2022
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https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-26-5357-2022
© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
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the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Research article
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27 Oct 2022
Research article |
| 27 Oct 2022
| 27 Oct 2022
Is the reputation of Eucalyptus plantations for using more water than Pinus plantations justified?
Don A. White
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Guangxi Forestry Research Institute, 23 Yongwu Road, Nanning, China
Whitegum Forest and Natural Resources, P. O. Box 3269, Midland, WA 6056, Australia
Centre for Ecosystem Management, School of Science, Edith Cowan
University, Joondalup, WA 6027, Australia
Shiqi Ren
Guangxi Forestry Research Institute, 23 Yongwu Road, Nanning, China
Daniel S. Mendham
CSIRO Environment, 15 College Road, Sandy Bay, TAS 7005, Australia
Francisco Balocchi-Contreras
Ecosystems, Productivity and Climate Change, Bioforest SA, Camino a Coronel km 15, Coronel 413000, Chile
Water resources and energy for Agriculture PhD Program, Water
Resources department, Universidad de Concepción, Chillán, 3812120, Chile
Richard P. Silberstein
Centre for Ecosystem Management, School of Science, Edith Cowan
University, Joondalup, WA 6027, Australia
Hydrological and Environmental Scientific Solutions, P. O. Box 237, West Perth, WA 6872, Australia
Agriculture and Environment, The University of Western Australia,
Crawley, WA 6009, Australia
Dean Meason
Scion, Tītokorangi Drive, Private Bag 3020, Rotorua 3046, New Zealand
Andrés Iroumé
Institute of Conservation, Biodiversity and Territory, Facultad de Ciencias Forestales y Recursos Naturales, Universidad Austral de Chile, Valdivia, Chile
Pablo Ramirez de Arellano
Ecosystems, Productivity and Climate Change, Bioforest SA, Camino a Coronel km 15, Coronel 413000, Chile
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- Site quality impacts tree form, heartwood content and veneer production of plantation-grown Pinus patula J. van der Merwe et al. 10.1515/hf-2023-0031
- Evapotranspiration Partitioning of Eucalyptus benthamii and Pinus taeda During Early Stand Development S. Younger et al. 10.1007/s12155-023-10591-w
- Field Drying for Enhancing Biomass Quality of Eucalyptus Logs and Trees in Florida, USA D. Rockwood et al. 10.3390/f14050899
- Dealing with the risk of fire in carbon sequestration strategies: Diverse forests or plantation monocultures? W. Smith et al. 10.1111/csp2.13201
- Human disturbances and their impact on woody species diversity in sacred church forests in West Gojjam Zone, Northwestern Ethiopia A. Haile et al. 10.1016/j.tfp.2025.100776
- Identification and Mapping of Eucalyptus Plantations in Remote Sensing Data Using CCDC Algorithm and Random Forest M. Zhou et al. 10.3390/f15111866
- The Myth That Eucalyptus Trees Deplete Soil Water—A Review P. Medeiros et al. 10.3390/f16030423
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- Transpiration rates from mature Eucalyptus grandis × E. nitens clonal hybrid and Pinus elliottii plantations near the Two Streams Research Catchment, South Africa N. Kaptein et al. 10.5194/hess-27-4467-2023
- The impact of climate on the dominant height and climate thresholds for P. elliottii, P. taeda, P. patula, and P. patula x P. tecunumanii plantation forests J. van der Merwe et al. 10.1139/cjfr-2024-0005
11 citations as recorded by crossref.
- Sustainable management of Eucalyptus pellita plantations: A review F. Hutapea et al. 10.1016/j.foreco.2023.120941
- Site quality impacts tree form, heartwood content and veneer production of plantation-grown Pinus patula J. van der Merwe et al. 10.1515/hf-2023-0031
- Evapotranspiration Partitioning of Eucalyptus benthamii and Pinus taeda During Early Stand Development S. Younger et al. 10.1007/s12155-023-10591-w
- Field Drying for Enhancing Biomass Quality of Eucalyptus Logs and Trees in Florida, USA D. Rockwood et al. 10.3390/f14050899
- Dealing with the risk of fire in carbon sequestration strategies: Diverse forests or plantation monocultures? W. Smith et al. 10.1111/csp2.13201
- Human disturbances and their impact on woody species diversity in sacred church forests in West Gojjam Zone, Northwestern Ethiopia A. Haile et al. 10.1016/j.tfp.2025.100776
- Identification and Mapping of Eucalyptus Plantations in Remote Sensing Data Using CCDC Algorithm and Random Forest M. Zhou et al. 10.3390/f15111866
- The Myth That Eucalyptus Trees Deplete Soil Water—A Review P. Medeiros et al. 10.3390/f16030423
- Mapping Eucalyptus plantation in Guangxi, China by using knowledge-based algorithms and PALSAR-2, Sentinel-2, and Landsat images in 2020 C. Zhang et al. 10.1016/j.jag.2023.103348
- Transpiration rates from mature Eucalyptus grandis × E. nitens clonal hybrid and Pinus elliottii plantations near the Two Streams Research Catchment, South Africa N. Kaptein et al. 10.5194/hess-27-4467-2023
- The impact of climate on the dominant height and climate thresholds for P. elliottii, P. taeda, P. patula, and P. patula x P. tecunumanii plantation forests J. van der Merwe et al. 10.1139/cjfr-2024-0005
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Short summary
Of all the planting options for wood production and carbon storage, Eucalyptus species provoke the greatest concern about their effect on water resources. We compared Eucalyptus and Pinus species (the two most widely planted genera) by fitting a simple model to the published estimates of their annual water use. There was no significant difference between the two genera. This has important implications for the global debate around Eucalyptus and is an option for carbon forests.
Of all the planting options for wood production and carbon storage, Eucalyptus species provoke...
