Dynamics of carbon pool in Oak dominated community forests of District Tehri Garhwal, Uttarakhand, India

Abstract

The present study was carried out community forest of Tehri Garhwal Uttarakhand. The amount of growing stock volume density in the study region were ranges between 28.21 m³/ha and 44.59 m³/ha, above-ground biomass density ranges between 200.59 Mg ha^-1 and 238.44 Mg ha^-1, belowground biomass density range between 128.03 and 192.96 Mg/ha, total biomass density was in the range of 287.76 and 431.40 Mg ha^-1 and total carbon density ranges between 162.40 and 194.13 Mg ha^-1. The isolation of total biomass density into aboveground and belowground parts showed a similar pattern in every one of the forest locales. Present study proposes that community forests play a vital role in ecosystem health they are playing their job quietly in the moderation of environmental carbon and crucial for future planning. Loss of old community forestry system is centre for concern to the forest department, forest rangers and forestry researchers. Protection of community forests is an urgent need for the maintenance of community ecosystem in temperate region of Garhwal Himalaya Uttarakhand. Preservation of the both young and old growth forests is the best way to adapt to environmental change and a worldwide temperature alteration. As we probably are aware the pattern of old cultivating in the networks close to the urban communities is decrease and will be supplanted by present day procedures so we need to look through some new strategy and execution to monitor the old cultivating methods. The ground stock volume density shows moderate positive correlation with altitude (r =0.325) while above ground biomass density (r = 0.203) below ground biomass density, total biomass density and total carbon density shows week positive correlation with altitude (r =0.117, r = 0.194 and r = 0.194 respectively). The Linear regression shows that ground stock volume density, above ground biomass density, below ground biomass density, total biomass density  and total carbon density  not dependent only altitude some other factor affecting them. While as above ground biomass density show highly positive correlation with total biomass density and total carbon density whereas altitude show less positive correlation with below ground biomass density).