ANALYSIS OF CARBON STOCK POTENTIAL FOR GOJJAMDUR COMMUNITY FOREST, NORTHWEST ETHIOPIA

Authors

  • Fekadu Temesgen Tesfaye

Abstract

Understand the interrelate importance of the community forest ecosystem enables to pay attention for the wellbeing of the forest by the local community. On the surface of the earth, there are a numbers of community forests which keep the balance of the surrounding environment for the continuity of life. Among those, Gojjamdur community forest is one of the dense community managed forest in Northwest Ethiopia which gives valuable importance for the surrounding community. Thus, among the different importance, it serves as a store house of carbon. Thus, analyse the carbon stock potential of the forest is the key consideration of the study. In order to achieve the purpose, soil, litter, and tree DBHs sampleswere used. These samples were collected from 59 sample plots with 20m inter plot distance and the sample plots were taken randomly from the forest. The soil and litter samples were analysed in laboratory while the biomass value of the individual treewas analysed by allometric equation. The study finds that the community forests stored carbon ranging from 109.84 to 987.81 t/ha. From the result, it can be concluded that the forest has been acting as a storehouse of carbon. So, it is possible to infer that community management forest has a positive impact on increasing the carbon stock potential of the terrestrial and thus it contributes on the mitigation of global climate change.

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Published

2021-01-05

How to Cite

Fekadu Temesgen Tesfaye. (2021). ANALYSIS OF CARBON STOCK POTENTIAL FOR GOJJAMDUR COMMUNITY FOREST, NORTHWEST ETHIOPIA. PalArch’s Journal of Archaeology of Egypt / Egyptology, 18(1), 4018-4038. Retrieved from https://archives.palarch.nl/index.php/jae/article/view/6319