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Biomass of a man-made forest of timber tree species in the humid tropics of West Java, Indonesia

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Title Biomass of a man-made forest of timber tree species in the humid tropics of West Java, Indonesia
 
Creator Hiratsuka, M.
Toma, T.
Mindawati, N.
Heriansyah, I.
Morikawa, Y.
 
Subject biomass
carbon sequestration
forest plantations
tropical forests
forest trees
khaya grandifoliola
shorea
species
 
Description Biomass of a mature man-made forest in West Java, Indonesia, was estimated to evaluate the carbon sequestration potential of plantation forest in the humid tropics. Twenty plots, each 0.25 ha in area and containing one to six planted species over 40 years of age and with closed canopies, were selected. Trunk dry mass was estimated from trunk diameter, tree height, and bulk density. Maximum trunk diameter (122cm) was observed in a 46-year-old Khaya grandifoliola C. DC. tree, and the tallest tree (51 m) was a 46-year-old Shorea selanica (DC.) Blume. The largest trunk biomass (911Mgha-1) was achieved in the plot composed of two Khaya spp. Among the plots composed of indigeneous Dipterocarpaceae species, the largest trunk biomass was 635Mgha-1. These trunk biomasses were larger than those reported from primary rainforests in Southeast Asia (e.g., 403Mgha-1 in East Kalimantan, 522 and 368Mgha-1 in Peninsular Malaysia). The large biomass in this forest suggests that, given favorable conditions, manmade forests can accumulate the quantities of atmospheric carbon that were lost by the logging of primary forests in the humid tropics.
 
Date 2005
2012-06-04T09:09:20Z
2012-06-04T09:09:20Z
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier Hiratsuka, M., Toma, T., Mindawati, N., Heriansyah, I., Morikawa, Y. 2005. Biomass of a man-made forest of timber tree species in the humid tropics of West Java, Indonesia . Journal of Forest Research 10 (6) :487û491.
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/19331
https://www.cifor.org/knowledge/publication/1909
 
Language en
 
Source Journal of Forest Research