Biomass and carbon budgeting of land use types along elevation gradient in Central Himalayas
| Autor: | Jaideep Kumar Bisht, A. Pattanayak, P. L. Bhutia, R. P. Yadav, B. Gupta |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Land use
Renewable Energy Sustainability and the Environment 020209 energy Strategy and Management 05 social sciences Climate system Elevation Biomass chemistry.chemical_element 02 engineering and technology Vegetation Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Agronomy chemistry 050501 criminology 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering Environmental science Aboveground biomass Carbon Carbon stock 0505 law General Environmental Science |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Cleaner Production. 211:1284-1298 |
| ISSN: | 0959-6526 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.jclepro.2018.11.278 |
| Popis: | Biomass of vegetation is a crucial variable for understanding the potential future changes of the climate system. In the present study dominant land use types i.e. agroforestry (AF), banjoak forest (BF), chirpine forest (CF), mixed forest (MF) and grasslands (GL) of Himalayan region was investigated for biomass production and carbon stock budgeting in vegetation as well as in soil. Among land use type's highest aboveground biomass was recorded in banjoak forest (BF), 0.69%, 9.42% and 40.16% more than chirpine forest (CF), mixed forest (MF) and agroforestry (AF). However it was more than 16 times higher than grasslands (GL). Herbage and/or crops aboveground biomass was 3.73%, 4.05%, 4.42% and 29.34% of the aboveground biomass of trees in BF, CF, MF and AF. Herbage aboveground biomass was 76.01% of total aboveground biomass in grasslands. Our results revealed that in AF crops biomass accounted for 19.41–26.60% and trees contributed 73.40–80.59% biomass in total biomass of land use. Likewise, similar contributions were recorded for belowground biomass and total biomass in land uses. Irrespective of land use types along elevation the total biomass including aboveground and belowground biomass significantly (P |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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