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Farm forestry is an increasingly important form of diversifying farm income and helping to deal with environmental issues including dryland salinity, global warming and climate variability. Here we briefly describe the development, use and spatial application of improved versions of the plantation growth model, 3-PG, to provide estimates of productivity and carbon sequestration as well as salinity impacts. Several forestry scenarios using eucalypt species and Pinus radiata were tested with application to the Corangamite Catchment in south western Victoria, Australia.
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‘End-of-valley’ stream salinity (EC in μS cm−1) was calculated by dividing salt load by stream flow.
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The CEF project was jointly funded by CSIRO (at that time through the entity ‘Ensis’) and Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (DAFF) with support from the Corangamite Catchment Management Authority (CCMA), the Department of Primary Industries (DPI) Victoria and Central Victorian Farm Plantations.
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Marcar, N. et al. (2010). Predicting Growth, Carbon Sequestration and Salinity Impacts of Forestry Plantations. In: Ashraf, M., Ozturk, M., Ahmad, M. (eds) Plant Adaptation and Phytoremediation. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9370-7_7
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