Nasir Rashid Wani, Khwaja Naved Qaisar and Parvez Ahmad Khan
Keywords: Cedrus deodara, biomass, carbon stock, carbon dioxide mitigation, growth
Abstract: Carbon management in forests is the global concern to mitigate the increased concentration of greenhouse gases. Carbon sequestration through biomass seems to be a cheap and viable option to mitigate the greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. The study attempted to estimate growth, biomass production, carbon stock and carbon dioxide mitigation potential of 19 year old Cedrus deodara plantation under different diameter classes. The volume of trees in the stand varied from 0.072 to 0.596m3. The average dry stem biomass varied between 27.60 to 226.67kg, branch dry biomass between 7.88 to 64.14kg, needle dry biomass between 1.57 to18.19kg, total above ground dry biomass between 37.06 to 309.0kg and root dry biomass varied from 8.88 to77.25kg. The stem carbon varied from 12.80 to 105.15kg, branch carbon between 3.62 to 29.53kg, needle carbon between 0.67 to 7.78kg, root carbon between 4.09 to 35.66kg and total carbon between 21.18 to 178.12kg. The stem carbon dioxide mitigation potential varied from 46.83 to 384.84kg, branch from 12.91 to 108.07kg, needle from 2.44 to 28.47kg, root from 14.99 to 130.51kg and total carbon dioxide mitigation varied from 73.92 to 651.91kg
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