Increase of forest carbon biomass due to community forestry management in Nepal

Anup, K C; Manandhar, Roshani; Paudel, Rajeshor; Ghimire, Suresh Kumar

doi:10.1007/s11676-017-0438-z

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“…Nepal is world known for its CF, a forest management program developed in the 1970s aimed at forest conservation and poverty reduction [34]. Managed by the community foresty user groups (CFUGs), CF provides ecological goods and services, socio-economic benefits to communities, and contributes to climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction as a Nature-based Solution for sustainable development [35][36][37][38][39][40][41][42]. Today, 40% of the national forests are assigned in the CF regime and 50% of the total households are involved [35][36][37][38].…”

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“…Managed by the community foresty user groups (CFUGs), CF provides ecological goods and services, socio-economic benefits to communities, and contributes to climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction as a Nature-based Solution for sustainable development [35][36][37][38][39][40][41][42]. Today, 40% of the national forests are assigned in the CF regime and 50% of the total households are involved [35][36][37][38]. However, previous studies focusing on vegetation changes in Asia [16,17,[29][30][31] relying on remote sensing observations lacked access to comprehensive ground policy data such as CF to Nepal's land greening.…”

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“…However, previous studies focusing on vegetation changes in Asia [16,17,[29][30][31] relying on remote sensing observations lacked access to comprehensive ground policy data such as CF to Nepal's land greening. Meanwhile, existing studies [34][35][36][37][38][39][40][41][42] focusing on Nepal's CF have provided valuable case studies on these anthropogenic impacts, but rarely included national scale assessment. Thus, the drivers of Nepal's vegetation change over the past decades remains imprecise.…”

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Community forestry dominates the recent land greening amid climate change in Nepal

Gao,

Wang,

Hao

et al. 2023

Environ. Res. Lett.

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The Himalaya Plateau including Nepal is ‘greening up’ that has important implications to ecosystem services such as water supply, carbon sequestration, and local livelihoods. Understanding the combined causes behind greening is critical for effective policy makings in forest management and climate change adaptation towards achieving sustainable development goals. This national scale study comprehensively examined the natural and anthropogenic drivers of the long-term trend of vegetation dynamics across Nepal by correlation analysis and multiple linear regression analysis. We integrated multiple sources of data including global satellite-based leaf area index (LAI), climate data, landcover data, and forest land management information. Our study reveals a remarkable annual mean LAI increase of 22% (0.009 m2 m−2 yr−1) (p < 0.05) from 1982 to 2020, with an acceleration in the rate of increase to 0.016 m2 m−2 yr−1 (p < 0.05) after 2004. The community forestry (CF) program, forest area changes, and soil moisture availability accounted for 40%, 12%, and 10% of LAI temporal variability, respectively. Our analysis found soil moisture and forest area changes to be the primary drivers of the greening trend before 2004, while CF and forest expansion were the dominant factors thereafter. Additionally, interannual vegetation dynamics were significantly influenced by winter precipitation, incoming solar radiation, and pre-monsoon soil moisture. The projections based on four Earth System Models from Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 suggest that Nepal’s greening trend is expected to continue at a rate of 0.009 m2 m−2 yr−1 (p < 0.05) throughout the 21st century. We conclude that forest management program (CF) amid climate change that alters water and energy conditions have enhanced land greening, posing both opportunities and risks to ecosystem services in Nepal. This study provides much needed national-level information for developing forest management policies and designing Nature-based Solutions to respond to climate change and increasing demands for ecosystem services in Nepal.

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Community forestry dominates the recent land greening amid climate change in Nepal

Gao,

Wang,

Hao

et al. 2023

Environ. Res. Lett.

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“…Increasing carbon dioxide concentrations have shown adverse impact on climate, air, soil, water, human health as well, as plant and animal community (Dawud et al, 2016). One of the more appropriate and longer-period carbon sinks are perennial plants, mainly tree habits, that store carbon dioxide from the atmosphere in their body by the process of photosynthesis and regulate the far-going food chains as a biochemical process (KC et al, 2016).…”

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“…Unmanaged industries, huge use of vehicles, chemical uses, overpopulation, and burning of fossil fuels are the major sources of carbon emission in the environment (Aryal et al, 2013). Additionally, global socio-economic scenarios are changing and giving rise to the more prevalent problems of deforestation, land use change, and global climate change (KC et al, 2016;Khadka et al, 2019). Addressing these problems, biological carbon sequestration by plants comes at the forefront as they are the only living beings with the ability to sequestrate atmospheric carbon in the organic compound form in their shoots, and roots for a longer time and contribute to checking carbon proportion in the air (KC et al, 2016).…”

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Survey on Tree Carbon Stock inside Mahendra Multiple Campus, Nepalgunj, Banke

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Magar

2023

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Carbon stock in plant bodies is the significantly longer period reservoir for the atmospheric CO2 that causes adverse impacts on living and non-living climatic and environmental factors while increasing its proportional concentration in air. The present study aimed to estimate the carbon stock in trees of Mahendra Multiple Campus territory. The study was carried out by purposive sampling method, where altogether ten plots were laid of size 8.92m radii and measured diameter at breast height (DBH) (1.3m) and angle of inclination was taken from 5m horizontal distance from the tree pole. The calculation was made following the equation given by Chave et al., 2005 for wet forests. In total 17 species of trees were reported with the dominant species Dalbergia sissoo followed by Corymbia citriodora based on DBH and population density. The total carbon stored by trees inside the territory of MMC, Nepalgunj was 76.44 tons per hectare which is approximately 1/3rd of the world’s tropical forest average carbon stock. It implies the importance of trees outside the forest in carbon sequestration and balancing carbon emissions. Further estimation of carbon dioxide emitted from the territory, by different carbon emitters inside the area is recommended.

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