Response to Donald et al., (2025)
Donald et al. (2025) misinterpret the central premise of the paper, incorrectly stating that we argue “carbon credit claims […] for increased sequestered carbon from early measurements are based on increases related to favourable climatic variations rather than improved land management”. At no point in our paper do we make this claim. Instead, our analysis concluded that “SOC stocks were primarily driven by rainfall,” while also acknowledging the role of improved land management in SOC dynamics.
Authors
- Elaine Mitchell (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5210-8836)
- Felicity Deane (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1980-6576)
- Susan Orgill (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1928-2821)
- Annette Cowie (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3858-959X)
- David Rowlings (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1618-9309)
- Aaron Simmons (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3638-4945)
- Laura A. Grace
- Brian Wilson (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6291-2214)
- Sahar Ahmadi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0008-0860-5537)
- Warwick Badgery (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8299-8713)
- Raphael A. Viscarra Rossel (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1540-4748)
- David J. Pannell (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5420-9908)
- Matthew Tom Harrison (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7425-452X)
- Naoya Takeda (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3977-2804)
- Richard Eckard (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4817-1517)
- William J. Parton (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4151-7869)
- Paige L. Stanley (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4444-3351)
- Peter Grace (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4136-4129)
- Ken Day
Institutions
- University of Tasmania (AU)
- Queensland University of Technology (AU)
- The University of Melbourne (AU)
- The University of Western Australia (AU)
- Curtin University (AU)
- University of New England (US)
- New South Wales Department of Primary Industries (AU)
- Carbon180 (US)
- Ecosystem Sciences (AU)
- Colorado State University (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Carbon Management
- Published
- 2025-05-14
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1080/17583004.2025.2484503
- Primary Topic
- Forest Management and Policy
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00