Estimación Del Carbono Almacenado En La Biomasa Aérea De Un Bosque Húmedo Tropical En Paimadó, Chocó

Abstract

In Paimado municipal head of Rio Quito (Choco) the carbon contained in the aerial biomass of a forest belonging to a tropical humid zonobioma was evaluated. For the calculate of the biomass, thirteen allometric models were used reported as the best to fit the ecosystem according to specialized literature, these were applied to the 10 species with greater ecological weight within the forest, since they represent about the 60% of the total biomass of the species found. The forest inventory consisted in a two-stage sampling in blocks and girdles in 250 circular plots of 0.05 ha randomly selected, the height and diameter at breast height variables were measured, for the statistical analysis the free software R Project was used. The stored carbon was determined based on the fraction proposed by the IPCC and corresponds to 50% of the total biomass. The results determined that the tropical rainforest in Paimado contains 78.49 t of biomass and 39.24 t of carbon for each 0.05 ha.