Abstract
Heroes Park City Forest has a high vegetation density in Purworejo Regency, Central Java province, absorbing and storing carbon from the atmosphere. This study analyzes the value of carbon stock, sequestration, and tree composition in the Heroes Park City Forest. Data collection was carried out in February 2021, using three randomly distributed 20 x 100 m plots. Analysis of carbon stock data, important value index, and diversity index was carried out quantitatively descriptively. The results showed that the carbon stock value of trees was 116.84 tons ha-1, which according to Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation or REDD+, was included in the high carbon stock category. The value of carbon sequestration in Heroes Park urban forest is 428.80 tons ha-1, which is higher than some city forests in Indonesia. The sampling location is covered with 157 tree species, dominated by Acacia auriculiformis, and has a moderate level of tree diversity. Vegetation dominated by Acacia auriculiformis from Fabaceae contributed 43 percent of the total carbon stock in Heroes Park. Abiotics such as rainfall, air temperature, and humidity in Purworejo City support the growth of plants from the Fabaceae. Therefore, Heroes Park City Forest in Purworejo Regency has high carbon storage or carbon stock and sequestration values and needs to be monitored annually to maintain this potential.
Highlights
Dynamic urban areas with physical development in various sectors result in disturbances in green open space (GOS) conditions [1,2,3,4]
Carbon Storage and Sequestration Based on the data measurement, the carbon stock value of tree stands was 116.84 ton ha-1, and the carbon sequestration value was 428.80 ton ha-1 in Heroes Park City Forest, Purworejo Regency
The value of carbon stock at this location is included in the recommendations of Rahayu & Harja (2013) and Erly et al (2019) for carbon stocks in secondary tropical forests in Indonesia [36,37]
Summary
Dynamic urban areas with physical development in various sectors result in disturbances in green open space (GOS) conditions [1,2,3,4]. The discharge of industrial waste into the atmosphere, and other anthropogenic activities in urban areas account for seventy-five percent of global carbon dioxide emissions [7,8,9,10]. Disruption to urban forests will reduce vegetation that can absorb and store greenhouse gases such as carbon [11]. The absorption or sequestration of carbon carried out by plants through photosynthesis describes the amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) absorbed from the atmosphere [12,13,14]. Plants can store a certain amount of carbon or known as carbon stock, in the form of biomass by forty-six percent in Received: July 2021| Revised: January 2022 | Accepted: February 2022 their body [15]. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), carbon sequestration will be stored in the form of above-ground biomass, below-ground biomass, necromass, litter, and soil organic [16]
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