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The Impact Of Co-Occurring Tree And Grassland Species On Carbon Sequestration And Potential Biofuel Production, Ramesh Laungani, Johannes Knops
The Impact Of Co-Occurring Tree And Grassland Species On Carbon Sequestration And Potential Biofuel Production, Ramesh Laungani, Johannes Knops
School of Biological Sciences: Faculty Publications
We evaluated how three co-occurring tree and four grassland species influence potentially harvestable biofuel stocks and above- and belowground carbon pools. After 5 years, the tree Pinus strobus had 6.5 times the amount of aboveground harvestable biomass as another tree Quercus ellipsoidalis and 10 times that of the grassland species. P. strobus accrued the largest total plant carbon pool (1375 gCm -2 or 394 gCm -2 yr), while Schizachyrium scoparium accrued the largest total plant carbon pool among the grassland species (421 gCm -2 or 137 gCm -2 yr). Quercus ellipsoidalis accrued 850 gCm -2, Q. macrocarpa 370 gCm -2, …