Tree Inventory Assessment in Religious Institution Compound and its Benefit for Environmental Management in the Case of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Yohannes Melaku Yimam¹ , Bisrat Kifle²

Section:Research Paper, Product Type: Journal-Paper
Vol.7 , Issue.1 , pp.51-61, Feb-2020

Online published on Feb 28, 2020

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Abstract :
Tree inventory plays a crucial role to work out the number of trees by measuring the various trees attributes like tree height, tree DBH, tree canopy, and tree age. The study was accompanied to estimate the carbon stock using above and below-ground biomass of tree by identifying the tree species exists in the religious institutions and also its variation along the environmental gradient. The amount of total carbon stock in all religious institutions was 223.72 tons, the carbon stock range of Above-ground biomass was 124.1 – 1.4 tons and the range of carbon stock of below-ground biomass was also 24.84-0.28 tons. The current study shows that the number of trees, types of trees, and carbon stock value of all religious institutions were highly affected by human and environmental factors such as deforestation, altitude, and slope. The implication was religious institutions have deforested a lot of tree species for different purposes such as infrastructure expansion, income source, and firewood. The consequences of these decreased the number of tree species and carbon biomass in religious institutions may have influenced the environment of climate change.

Key-Words / Index Term :
Above-Ground biomass, Below-Ground biomass, Carbon Stock, Diameter at Breast height, and Tree height

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