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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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Coastal temperate rainforests, among Earth’s carbon richest biomes, are systematically underrepresented in the global network of critical zone observatories (CZOs). Introducing here a first CZO in the heart of the Patagonian rainforest, Chile, we investigate carbon sink functioning, biota-driven landscape evolution, fluxes of matter and energy, and disturbance regimes. We invite the community to join us in cross-disciplinary collaboration to advance science in this particular environment.
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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...
