CARBON CONTENT EVALUATION IN SOUTHERN FORESTS OF NUEVO LEON

Authors

  • Oscar Alberto Aguirre-Calderón Facultad de Ciencias Forestales. Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León
  • Javier Jiménez-Pérez Facultad de Ciencias Forestales. Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.29298/rmcf.v2i6.575

Keywords:

Site index, Pinus pseudostrobus, Pinus teocote, carbon sequestration, environmental services, Quercus spp

Abstract

The acknowledgement of the importance of environmental services that forests provide and the need to count on reliable methods to assess them are the reasons to accomplish the actual study, whose objectives were to develop methods and practical tools to estimate the carbon content of some forests at the South of Nuevo León State. Biomass equations based on the normal diameter (called DBH at height 1.30m) of the tree form for Pinus pseudostrobus, P. teocote and Quercus spp. were developed in temperate forests of Southern Nuevo Leon (NL). Likewise, it was estimated the carbon content of the tree species under study, using an organic carbon analyzer. Results allowed the construction of rates, biomass and carbon content tables, which were assessed by the amount of carbon in the tree component of mixed forests of pine-oak, oak-pine and pure pine stands. The carbon per cent content in dry weight in Pinus pseudostrobus trees was 50.35, in P. teocote 47.78 and in Quercus spp. 48.43. Carbon content site index tables were constructed for pure three pine species stands. Results of carbon content evaluation in different forest types were: pine-oak 45.24 Mg ha-1, oak-pine 64.20 Mg ha-1 of P. pseudostrobus 73.18 Mg ha-1 and P. teocote 47.01 Mg ha-1.

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Published

2019-05-20

How to Cite

Aguirre-Calderón Oscar Alberto, and Jiménez-Pérez Javier. 2019. “CARBON CONTENT EVALUATION IN SOUTHERN FORESTS OF NUEVO LEON”. Revista Mexicana De Ciencias Forestales 2 (6). México, ME:73-84. https://doi.org/10.29298/rmcf.v2i6.575.

Issue

Vol. 2 No. 6 (2011)

Section

Scientific article

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