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Table 1 Forest type-wise quantification of biomass and sequestered carbon
Index
Forest type
Equation
Quantification
Biomass
(T/Ha)
Evergreen
(Forestcover) × 485.67
Above ground biomass
content
Deciduous
(Forestcover) × 258.12
Scrub
(Forestcover) × 74.25
Plantations
(Extent) × 45.25
Carbon stored
(T/Ha)
All
(Estimatedbiomass) × 0.5
Sequestered carbon
Annual
Increment in
Biomass
(T/Ha)
Evergreen
(Forestcover) × 10.48
Incremental growth in
biomass
[8, 10, 35, 40, 46, 48]
Deciduous
(Forestcover) × 13.82
Scrub
(Forestcover) × 5.4
Plantations
(Extent) × 1.4
Annual
increment in
Carbon (T/Ha)
All
(AnnualIncrementinBiomass) × 0.5
Incremental growth in
carbon storage
Net annual
Biomass
productivity
(T/Ha)
Evergreen
(Forestcover) × 3.6
Used to compute the
annual availability of
woody biomass in the
region
Deciduous
(Forestcover) × 3.9
Scrub
(Forestcover) × 0.5
Carbon
sequestration
of soil (T/Ha)
Evergreen
(Forestcover) × 132.8
Carbon stored in soil
[7, 38, 55]
Deciduous
(Forestcover) × 58
Scrub
(Forestcover) × 44
Agriculture
(Extent) × 2.43
Plantations
(Extent) × 55
Annual
Increment of
soil carbon
(T/Ha)
All
(Cover) × 2.5
Annual increment of
carbon stored in the soil
Table 2 Above ground biomass for different forest types and plantations
Sno
Forest cover type
Standing Biomass
(T/ha)
Source
1
Dense Evergreen to
Semi evergreen
486–834
Field-based transect cum quadrat
method;
[20, 37, 38, 40, 43, 46–48, 53]
2
Low evergreen
226
3
Dense Deciduous
258
4
Degraded Deciduous
130
5
Savanna Woodlands
75–90
6
Thorn degraded
40
7
Littoral and swamp
215
8
Plantations
45–126