Trees naturally may contribute to climate change mitigation through photosynthesis process that absorbs carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and stored in their biomass. The amount of carbon stored in tree biomass depends on the size of tree, species, and population per area. This study aims to analyse the amount of carbon stored in Cigerendeng Research Forest (CRF), West Java that is managed by Forestry Research and Development Agency (FORDA). This forest is dominated by mahogany and dipterocarp species originally having been planted in Sumatera and Kalimantan starting from the 1930s. Species-specific allometric and general allometric are utilised to estimate the weight of the above ground biomass. Below ground biomass is estimated by allometric equation of Cairns et al (1997). The results of this study show that carbon stored in tree biomass of Cigerendeng Research Forest (CRF) in 2009 and 2015 were 156 and 199 ton per ha respectively, with relatively dominated by old trees. The growth of trees in the CRF area could store 43 ton per ha in 6 years (from 2009 to 2015). The CRF manager utilizes the CRF by selling its environmental services (i.e. amenity and carbon), instead of harvesting.
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Indrajaya, Y., & Mulyana, S. (2020). Carbon stored in tree biomass of Cigerendeng Research Forest, Ciamis, West Java. In IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science (Vol. 487). Institute of Physics Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1088/1755-1315/487/1/012004
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