Chapter One : INTRODUCTION
1.1. Background
The phrase "carbon sequestration" refers to efforts to capture excess carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere, condense it, and store it in some benign way (Kirschbaum, 2003). In the same note, carbon sequestration is the removal of the CO2 from the atmosphere by storing it in the biosphere. Forests are known as standing stores of sequestered atmospheric carbon. Given the increased importance of a forest ecosystem as valuable carbon pool, it draws significant attention as the global community becomes progressively more concerned about climate About two-thirds of terrestrial carbon is sequestered in the standing forests, forest under storey plants, leaf and forest debris, and in forest soils (Sedjo …show more content…
However, an important variable of vegetation is its floristic diversity and dominance. Ecological value of the plant species (IVI) influences in a great extent the biomass of an ecosystem and hence carbon stocks. Importance Value Index (IVI) is a measure of how dominant a species is in a given forest area. It is a standard tool used by foresters to inventory a forest. Foresters generally do not inventory a forest by counting all the trees, but by locating points in the forest and sampling a specified area around those points. Unfortunately, uncountable natural as well as artificial calamities have been observed these days which demands better alternative options to resolve them. Some examples are land degradation, flood, mass slides, natural disaster and warming and climate change that directly damage the ecosystem services like biodiversity and biomass. Therefore, opportunity should be searched to use and manage the forest resource wisely through people’s participation. One of the compelling ways may be exploration of ecological value of a particular species in the forests ecosystem. Equally, the carbon sequestration, which is the prime element of the ecosystem services, by particular species and their effect on ecological process, may be the other way. These points may help people to know and realize the real
1.1. Background
The phrase "carbon sequestration" refers to efforts to capture excess carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere, condense it, and store it in some benign way (Kirschbaum, 2003). In the same note, carbon sequestration is the removal of the CO2 from the atmosphere by storing it in the biosphere. Forests are known as standing stores of sequestered atmospheric carbon. Given the increased importance of a forest ecosystem as valuable carbon pool, it draws significant attention as the global community becomes progressively more concerned about climate About two-thirds of terrestrial carbon is sequestered in the standing forests, forest under storey plants, leaf and forest debris, and in forest soils (Sedjo …show more content…
However, an important variable of vegetation is its floristic diversity and dominance. Ecological value of the plant species (IVI) influences in a great extent the biomass of an ecosystem and hence carbon stocks. Importance Value Index (IVI) is a measure of how dominant a species is in a given forest area. It is a standard tool used by foresters to inventory a forest. Foresters generally do not inventory a forest by counting all the trees, but by locating points in the forest and sampling a specified area around those points. Unfortunately, uncountable natural as well as artificial calamities have been observed these days which demands better alternative options to resolve them. Some examples are land degradation, flood, mass slides, natural disaster and warming and climate change that directly damage the ecosystem services like biodiversity and biomass. Therefore, opportunity should be searched to use and manage the forest resource wisely through people’s participation. One of the compelling ways may be exploration of ecological value of a particular species in the forests ecosystem. Equally, the carbon sequestration, which is the prime element of the ecosystem services, by particular species and their effect on ecological process, may be the other way. These points may help people to know and realize the real