Structure and biomass carbon of Olea ferruginea forests in the foot hills of Malakand division, Hindukush range mountains of Pakistan

Abstract The sub-tropical broadleaved forests dominates the foothills in Malakand division, Hindukush range mountains of northern Pakistan. Olea ferruginea is one of the major constituents of these forests having a wide distribution with no quantitative relationships between stand structural parameters and biomass carbon which renders to estimate carbon budget in the region. We investigated the forest structure, growing stock characteristics and biomass carbon stocks of the Olea ferruginea dominated forests in the foot-hills of Hindukush range mountains in Pakistan. The study highlights species diversity, tree distribution pattern and biomass carbon in respective diameter classes. We recognized five Olea ferruginea vegetation types by using an importance values (IV). Results showed that the forest comprised of 19 woody species belonging to 13 families of 10 Genera. Importance value (IV) for Olea ferruginea was ranged from 53 to 96 (mean = 69.4 ± 2.7) with a stem density of 215 to 417 ± 6.4 ha−1. Average basal area was 6.69 ± 1.3 m2 ha−1 and volume was 44.2 ± 9.8 m3 ha−1. Stem biomass and total biomass was 49.82 ± 11.1 and 100.1 ± 22.6 t ha−1 respectively whereas, the stored carbon in the living biomass was 49.54 ± 11.3 t ha−1. These findings revealed that Olea ferruginea forests has great potential to utilize and store atmospheric carbon. We concluded from our results, that the potential of carbon capturing and storage of the area can be increasesd on extensive managements of high biomass carbon density through proper scientific methods.

• Publication year

  2019

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  Acta Ecologica Sinica

• Publication date

  2019-08-01

• Fields of study

  Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1016/J.CHNAES.2019.05.011
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