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Hindawi Publishing Corporation International Journal of Forestry Research Volume 2010, Article ID 690462, 13 pages doi:10.1155/2010/690462 Research Article Carbon in Trees in Tasmanian State Forest M. T. Moroni, T. H. Kelley, and M. L. McLarin Forestry Tasmania, 79 Melville Street, Hobart TAS 7000, Australia Correspondence should be addressed to M. T. Moroni, martin.moroni@.au Received 16 September 2010; Revised 24 November 2010; Accepted 27 December 2010 Academic Editor: Marie-Charlotte Nilsson Copyright © 2010 M. T. Moroni et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The mass of carbon (C) in standing trees on 1.5 M ha of Tasmanian State forest was 163 Tg C, with 139 Tg in eucalypt forest. The highest C densities occurred in the tallest, highest crown cover, mature, wet eucalypt forest, representing 0.2% by area containing only 1.3 Tg C. Shorter mature forests with lower crown cover contained 21–68% of this C density. Rainforests and forests containing regrowth or silvicultural regeneration components also contained lower C densities. Landscape-level C saturation of Tasmanian State forest could only be achieved when all forest was simultaneously mature eucalypt forest. This would sequester an additional 93 Tg C into trees, but would require fire to convert existing mixed forest and rainforest to eucalypt forest, and subsequent estate wildfire prevention while eucalypt forests mature and the prevention of eucalypt forests progressing to less C- dense rainforest. Theoretical C saturation at the landscape level is therefore ecologically impossible. 1. Introduction