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Carbon Stock Assessment in Sub-humid Tropical Forest Stands of the Eastern Himalayan Foothills

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Assessment of carbon storage potential of a forest is difficult due to a lack of information on biomass partitioning and allocation in different species. For most of the species only above-ground biomass potential is known, but to have a picture of carbon storage potential of species, the below-ground biomass is equally important. With this in view a study was conducted at Jaldapara National Park located in the foothills of Eastern Himalayas to analyze the tree dominance, biomass production, and biomass carbon stocks of five forest stands of Tectona grandis dominant stands (TGDS), Shorea robusta dominant stands (SRDS), Michelia champaca dominant stands (MCDS), Lagerstroemia speciosa dominant stands, and miscellaneous stands (MS). Trees contributed 87.3–96.5% of the total biomass in the studied stand and the rest by shrubs, herbs, and litters, while AGB contributed 70.5–84.7%. Stratified random nested quadrate sampling method was adopted in this study. The ecosystem carbon stock varied significantly among the stands in the range of 145.8–454.3 Mg C ha−1. Consequent of significantly higher species richness, population, and basal area, the MS was estimated with significantly higher vegetation biomass and soil organic carbon stock and thus significantly also had higher ecosystem carbon stock than the species dominant stands. The MS was quantified with 2.64–3.12 times higher ecosystem carbon stock than the species dominant stands. Tectona grandis, Shorea robusta, Michelia champaca, and Lagerstroemia speciosa are popular timber species with high commercial demand. Forests are now known as net emitter and need sustained conservation efforts. The forests of the region can be relieved from commercial pressure through developing plantations of these high-value timber species involving local population. It is advocated to manage these plantations as semi-natural forest with heterogeneous regional vegetation allowing minimum or no disturbances that can fulfill commercial, social, and ecological needs. Success of such plantation programs needs policy support with adequate compensation and incentives. These plantations in non-forested landscapes will supplement the forest in terms of conserving and enhancing the terrestrial carbon sink of the region. However, systematic and holistic research is required to understand the regional patterns, fluxes, magnitude, and driving mechanisms of terrestrial carbon sinks and sources for efficient policy support and management decisions. Meanwhile, with the regional tree species identified, silvicultural actions and policy framework can be formulated to initiate carbon farming with the identified tree species in the region.

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Rai, P., Shukla, G., Vineeta, Bhat, J.A., Chakravarty, S. (2022). Carbon Stock Assessment in Sub-humid Tropical Forest Stands of the Eastern Himalayan Foothills. In: Sahana, M., Areendran, G., Raj, K. (eds) Conservation, Management and Monitoring of Forest Resources in India. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-98233-1_10

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