The Assessment of Carbon Stocks in the Oak Scrub Forest of Sheringal Valley Dir Kohistan
The Assessment of Carbon Stocks in the Oak Scrub Forest of Sheringal Valley Dir Kohistan作者机构：Department of Forestry Shaheed Benazir Bhutto University Sheringal Dir Upper Pakistan Department of Botany University of Peshawar Peshawar Pakistan Department of Botany PMAS-Arid Agriculture University Rawalpindi Rawalpindi Pakistan Department of Environmental Sciences Shaheed Benazir Bhutto University Sheringal Dir Upper Pakistan
出 版 物：《Open Journal of Forestry》 (林学期刊（英文）)
年 卷 期：2015年第5卷第5期
页 面：510-517页
学科分类：1002[医学-临床医学] 100214[医学-肿瘤学] 10[医学]
主 题：Sheringal Oak Scrub Forest Biomass and Carbon Stocks
摘 要：The present study estimates carbon stocks (C-stocks) of the Oak scrub forest of Sheringal valley through field inventory. Stem density (haǃ), tree height (m), basal area (m2·haǃ), stem volume (m2·haǃ), stem biomass (t·haǃ), total biomass (t·haǃ), and total C-stock (t·haǃ), were calculated. Stem density varied between 80±8.16 to 510 ± 42 trees haǃ, with a mean value of 226 ± 7 tress haǃ. The average tree height, basal area and stem volume were 5.47 ± 0.76 m, 12.82 ± 0.25 m2·haǃ and 46.37 ± 0.85 m3·haǃ respectively. The total calculated stem biomass was 32.46 ± 0.60 t·haǃ and total tree biomass was 51.61 ± 0.60 t·haǃ. The calculated C-stocks in the Oak scrub forest ranged from 2.005 ± 1.32 t·haǃ to 63.1 ± 3.34 t·haǃ and the mean C stocks was 25.80 ± 0.47 t·haǃ. The results of the study confirmed that the Oak scrub forest acts as a valuable sink of carbon, but this valuable storage factory of carbon faced the problems of excess uses for fuel wood, forage, domestic uses (mostly for construction) and unscientific management. Proper scientific management and proper utilization of the forest can be significant measures to enhance the potential of the forest to stored and sink more carbon and can be included for CDM and REED++ under Keyto protocol.
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