Australian Forest Trial Finds Carbon Recovered 30 Years After Thinning
Edited by Steinar Vigdel Kolnes, Editor, Oslo
Researchers revisiting a forest experiment in Victoria found heavily thinned mountain ash plots replaced the carbon removed during a 1987 harvest within 30 years.
A return to long-neglected experimental forest plots in Victoria, Australia, has revealed how mountain ash stands responded to harvesting over three decades. Researchers examined sites belonging to the Silvicultural Systems Project at Tanjil Bren.
Trees in heavily thinned stands were approximately 20% larger in diameter than those in unharvested control plots. The comparison points to a difference in tree growth following the removal of competing trees.
The thinned stands also recovered the full amount of carbon removed by the 1987 harvest within 30 years, according to the findings. The research was published in Forest Science on July 1, 2026.
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