Abstract

TORRES-TORRES, Jhon Jerley; MENA-MOSQUERA, Víctor Eleazár  and  ALVAREZ-DAVILA, Esteban. Quantization of the air carbon in three forests of the Botanical Garden of the Pacific, Chocó, Colombia. Entramado [online]. 2017, vol.13, n.1, pp.200-209. ISSN 1900-3803.  https://doi.org/10.18041/entramado.2017v13n1.25110.

Tropical forests are considered as an important carbon deposit, whose permanence in the ecosystem depends to a large extent on the fact that natural and anthrogenic phenomena do not occur; So it is necessary to undertake strategies for its conservation and management. The carbon stored in the aerial biomass was quantified in forests of 12, 30 and 40 years, located in the Botanical Garden of the Pacific, Bahía Solano Chocó-Colombia. For that, total diameter and height were measured in all individuals present with DBH > 10 cm, in nine Temporary Sampling Plots of 0.1 ha. Aerial biomass was estimated through allometric equations, carbon stored in aerial biomass with a carbon fraction of 0.5, carbon-binding rate and carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2 eq) by the factor of 3.67. An average stored carbon of 48.2 t ha-1, an aerial biomass of 96.3 t ha-1, an average carbon fixation rate of 1.9 t ha-1 year -l was found. The carbon content of the studied forests increases as the age of these forests increases, while with the rate of carbon fixation the opposite happens.

Keywords : Bahía Solano; aboveground biomass; secondary forests; Carbon; Chocó; Pacific Botanical Garden.

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