Indian Journal of Scientific Research
  • Year: 2013
  • Volume: 4
  • Issue: 1

Quantitative analysis on carbon storage of 25 valuable tree species of Gujarat, incredible India

  • Author:
  • Ishan Y. Pandyaa, Harshad Salvib, Omprakash Chaharc, Nilesh Vaghelad,1
  • Total Page Count: 5
  • Page Number: 137 to 141

1Gujarat Ecological Education and Research Foundation, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India

Department of Biotechnology, Shri Jagdishprasad Jhabarmal Tibrewala University, Jhunjhunu, Rajasthan, India

aCorresponding author E-mail: genomes.world37@gmail.com

bE-mail: harshadsalvi@gmail.com

cE-mail: alliedscience@jjtu.ac.in

dE-mail: vnileshkumar@gmail.com

Online published on 9 August, 2013.

Abstract

Trees are carbon reservoir on earth. In nature, photosynthesis is the unique mechanism through which carbon flows in ecosystems and utilize by plants in the form of CO2. World wide, we are losing the number of trees every year; the reasons are known to everybody which leads to the climate change globally. From the available data of tree's girth and height we estimated the carbon storage by non-destructive or allometric method. We estimated the carbon storage in 25 species belongs to Gujarat, India. The maximum carbon storage in Tamarindus indica 55.95 tC followed by 44.81 tC in Terminalia arjuna is concluded. The lowest carbon storage value estimated in Emblica officinalis 1.77tC.

Keywords

Diameter, Species, Biomass, Carbon Storage