PRACTICAL - Nocturnal pollination and seed dispersal - PRACTICAL Forest dynamics.pdf

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• calculate forest carbon stocks

• Above-ground carbon storage • Tree and liana densities

• largest sources for CO2 emissions in the tropics

• Deforestation

• understand the ecology and structural dynamics of forest ecosystems, as well as habitat needs of forest wildlife

• indispensible part of a tropical ecology and conservation toolkit

• based on the allometric, or proportional, relationship between above ground biomass (or AGB) and the product of wood density, tree diameter and total tree height

• generic global or region-wide values are used to calculate AGB.

• Biomass is then converted to tonnes of carbon per hectare

• variation can be attributed to the dynamic nature of gap creation and forest regeneration

• especially influenced by gaps are the lianas

• estimate the standing carbon stock of the Cano Palma forest

• standardised vegetation plot protocol.

• abundance of lianas

• record each tree above 10cm DBH.

• height

• ecord the number of lianas

• AGB = 0.0671 (WD x DBH2 x H)0.976

• AGB = ABG x 0.47

• sum the AGB values