Abstract
This study was aimed to assess the data collected from the Iraqi North forests of Atrush, for reporting the urban forests and their status in many locations with different scales and ranges. This process was carried out by using up-to-date technology. Such technology included the economic scopes of the evaluation ecosystem, by i-Tree Eco evaluation, and the US Forest Service which helps out in such a program. The evaluation included the total carbon storage of 41 species of trees, and it was found that 27.78 t of those trees in which the value of $ 4743608.35 had an amount of gross carbon sequestration rate of 0.63 t /year and a value of $107.576.431.These results indicated that carbon storage within those trees of different species investigated by the program was not the same and the Oriental plane trees are different and distinguish from other trees in term of their storage of carbon amount and only seven trees had the storage of 20.51 t of carbon with carbon sequestration of 0.32 t. Other species in the sample had less amount of carbon sequestration.
Highlights
Urban forests mean as complete trees located within the urban tuft [12]
Carbon sequestration means the process in which the carbon dioxide is stored as biomass as it changed to uncooked materials through the operation of photosynthetic [17].this research concentrates on carbon storage and sequestration due to need of all the benefits
Ecosystem services are defined as the benefits that humans obtain from ecosystems; in spite of the relationship between these services, human welfare and the monetarism of ecosystem services is a new concept in Iraqi Kurdistan Region, one result is that certain forest areas are increasingly valued more than timber product for the environmental uses
Summary
Urban forests mean as complete trees located within the urban tuft [12]. Urban forests provide variety of benefits and services, especially the major and substantial connotation of the ecosystem. In study of Nowak et al [13] about carbon storage and sequestration by trees in urban and social areas of the United States, those assess the size as well as function of urban forests in link to climate change, using data from 28 cities and 6 states to determine the average carbon density per unit of tree cover, they found that the whole tree carbon storage spending average 7.69 kg- cm of tree cover and sequestration spending average 0.28 kg- cm of tree cover per year, and they are equal to the results with whole carbon storage and sequestration and their values in the U.S.A. Seifert [17] assessing the urban forest structure, ecosystem services, and economic benefits on vacant land which includes carbon storage and sequestration, some results show the change of the rising tree size, and the health of trees ability to backing annual carbon sequestration. The Shannon-Wiener diversity index is 3.24 for Junipers dominated forest, 2.98 for mixed forest and 2.76 for Eucalyptus dominated forest
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