Eucalyptus sargentii: a prospective candidate tree species for climate and salinity mitigation in Western Australia

Hideki Suganuma (), Yuji Sakai (), Nobuhide Takahashi (), Yasuyuki Egashira (), Hajime Utsugi (), Stanley J. Sochacki (), Richard J. Harper (), Hiroyuki Hamano (), Satoko Kawarasaki (), Shin-ichi Aikawa (), Toshinori Kojima () and Koichi Yamada ()
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Hideki Suganuma: Tohoku Professional University of Agriculture and Forestry
Yuji Sakai: Kogakuin University
Nobuhide Takahashi: Shinshu University
Yasuyuki Egashira: Tokyo University of Technology
Hajime Utsugi: Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute (FFPRI)
Stanley J. Sochacki: Murdoch University
Richard J. Harper: Murdoch University
Hiroyuki Hamano: ELIIY Power Co. Ltd.
Satoko Kawarasaki: National Institute for Environmental Studies
Shin-ichi Aikawa: Japan Forest Technology Association (Tokyo)
Toshinori Kojima: NPO Research Institute of Macro-Engineering Practice (Tokyo)
Koichi Yamada: Japan Science and Technology Agency

Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change, 2025, vol. 30, issue 2, No 3, 22 pages

Abstract: Abstract Mass conversion of native vegetation to agricultural land-use triggered secondary salinity, a hydrological imbalance, which has damaged more than 1.75 million ha of farmland in south-western Australia. Various types of reforestation have been proposed and tested to restore the hydrological balance, however the economic returns from these cannot compete with existing farm practice and land-holders thus have a reluctance to adopt. An alternative approach has been to reforest abandoned saline areas with salinity and/or water-logging tolerant trees to avoid displacement of farming activities. This reforestation approach is explicitly effective for carbon mitigation and thus finding appropriate tree species is essential. To select suitable tree species, three eucalypt species were planted adjacent to a salt scald in Wickepin, Western Australia, and their survival and growth on a site with saline soil and a shallow (

Keywords: Bio-diversity restoration; Co-benefits; Carbon abatement; Displacement avoidance of farming activity; Eucalypts (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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