The combination of  field inventory and Google Earth to estimate the biomass and carbon storage of Iranian oak trees (Quercus brantii Lindl.) (Case study: Dadabad region, Lorestan province)

Yousofvand mofrad, Mohsen; Soosani, Javad; Naghavi, Hamed; Abrari Vajari, Kambiz; Shaabanian, Naghi

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Volume 11, Issue 22 (9-2023)

PEC 2023, 11(22): 238-247

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The combination of field inventory and Google Earth to estimate the biomass and carbon storage of Iranian oak trees (Quercus brantii Lindl.) (Case study: Dadabad region, Lorestan province)

Mohsen Yousofvand mofrad¹

, Javad Soosani ^*

, Hamed Naghavi¹

, Kambiz Abrari Vajari³

, Naghi Shaabanian⁴

1- Forestry Dept, Faculty of Agriculture and Natural Resources
Forestry Dept, Faculty of Agriculture and Natural Resources Lorestan University, Khorramabad, Forestry Dept, Faculty of Agriculture and Natural Resources , soosani.j@lu.ac.ir
3- In Silviculture,Faculty of Agriculture and Natural Resources
4- Forestry Dept, Faculty of Natural Resources, Kurdistan University, Sanandaj

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Zagros forests cover a large area of the Iran and play an important role in soil protection storing underground water and other socio-economic services. Forests play an important role in the natural storage of carbon on a global scale and their protection is one of the important and sustainable strategies to deal with global warming. Therefore, the sustainable management of these areas requires information to understand and predict the changes of these forests. This research aimed to estimate the biomass and amount of carbon storage of Iranian oak trees, which are one of the most important elements of the Zagros forests, by using the combinathion of field inventory and Google Earth images. According to the results of the previous study in this area, the average diameter of the crown is a suitable variable for estimating the biomass of the Iranian oak species. For this purpose, the average diameter of the crown of the Iranian oak trees in the Dadabad region of Lorestan in an area of 488 hectares, using Google Earth images by ImageJ software was measured. The results showed that the amount of biomass on the ground for the Iranian oak species was 9.68 tons per hectare. Also, the amount of carbon storage estimated for the oak forests 6.427 tons per hectare. The results of this study and its comparison with other studies showed that non-destructive methods such as remote sensing and the use of satellite images and their integration with local allometric equations, allow the estimation of the amount of biomass and carbon storage in large areas with proper accuracy.

Article number: 16

Keywords: Biomass, Google Earth, Local allometric equations, Non-destructive methods, Quercus brantii.

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Type of Study: Research | Subject: Special
Received: 2023/04/20 | Accepted: 2023/06/13 | Published: 2023/09/23

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