Open AccessCARBON SEQUESTRATION POTENTIAL OF ROAD SIDE STANDING TREES IN KAMAREDDY MUNICIPALITY, TELANGANA, INDIA
Author(s) -
Anil Ragula,
Shyam Mukandam,
Suryakiran Banoth
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
plant archives/plant archives
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2581-6063
pISSN - 0972-5210
DOI - 10.51470/plantarchives.2021.v21.no2.133
Subject(s) - hectare , carbon sequestration , carbon stock , biomass (ecology) , environmental science , carbon fibers , mathematics , forestry , volume (thermodynamics) , agronomy , geography , biology , ecology , carbon dioxide , climate change , physics , algorithm , quantum mechanics , composite number , agriculture , archaeology
In our study of Kamareddy Municipality area, we laid out a 27 sample plots linearly along the road side. 27 sample plots covered about 2.7 ha of land that means each plot size is 0.1 ha. We enumerated 229 number of tree individuals in sampled area. In the 27 sample plots, we calculated 53.5 M3 0f tree volume, mean volume per plot is 1.98 M3 . Total biomass (AGB+BGB) is about 44.7 tones; mean biomass per plot is around 1.65 tones. Total carbon calculated 1.3 tons, mean carbon is 0.78 tones per plot. The total Carbon sequestration potential is 77.9 tones, mean carbon sequestration potential per plot is about 2.88 tones. By the calculations we assumed per hectare volume is 19.81 M3 , biomass is 16.5 tones, carbon stock is 7.88 tones and carbon sequestration potential is 28.85 tons per hectare.