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Title:
Australian native forest commerciality
Series:
Technical Reports
Series Issue:
14.3
Publication Date:
06/11/2014
Description:
The Australian Sawlog Commerciality Database is the first spatial database of potential sawlog merchantability and productivity for Australia's native forests. It shows native forests capable of producing sawlogs commercially in Australia. This report describes how the database was developed and validated. Commerciality is the expected volume yield of commercial sawlog that is available from a forest stand over the long term, assuming good silvicultural practices are followed. Commerciality is derived from a combination of the merchantability and productivity of forest stands. Merchantability is a forest stand attribute based on tree species composition and stand structure, and in this work refers to a forest stand's suitability for commercial production of sawlogs or other high-quality products. Productivity is also a forest stand attribute, and describes the potential yield of sawlogs from a forest stand. To create the spatial database, ABARES obtained measures of sawlog merchantability and productivity from datasets in the National Forest Inventory (NFI) and combined these into attributes useful for mapping forest commerciality on a national scale. The database incorporates forest yield associations, which are groupings of forest types that display similar commerciality attributes. ABARES developed the national database using Regional Forest Agreement datasets, FORWOOD and Resource Assessment Commission data and estimates of productivity, and information provided directly to the NFI or published by state and territory agencies. Multiple-use public forest, leasehold forest and private forest are the main tenures reported because forests on these tenures are generally available for sawlog harvesting. The Australian Sawlog Commerciality Database contains data of varying age and the level of confidence for the data input depends on the age of that data. Access to the data is restricted because it contains some commercial-in-confidence information
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ABARES : Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences : Department of Agriculture
Author:
DAVEY Stuart Dr

DUNN Geoffrey
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Other constraints: Ownership of intellectual property rights: Unless otherwise noted, copyright (and any other intellectual property rights, if any) in this publication is owned by the Commonwealth of Australia (referred to as the Commonwealth). Creative Commons licence: All material in this publication is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia Licence, save for content supplied by third parties, logos and the Commonwealth Coat of Arms. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/au

Other constraints: This publication (and any material sourced from it) should be attributed as: Davey, S & Dunn, G 2014, Australian native forest commerciality, ABARES technical report 14.3, Canberra, November. CC BY 3.0
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ISBN 978-1-74323-193-7

ISSN 189-3128
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