Urban Forest Inventory for Carbon Reduction in a University City Campus

Abstract

Performing forest inventory in the campus is one of the breakthroughs towards achieving sustainable campus. Forest inventory aided the universities in creating a holistic baseline or framework in managing, planning and monitoring the forest in the campus in pursuance of a functional urban ecosystem through sustainable practice. The inventory aims to determine the number of trees and the stocking of carbon and biomass. Accurate estimation of the forest’s number of trees and biomass carbon sinks can improve the understanding of carbon cycles and help in developing sustainable forest management. The study area is identified as secondary type forest with 50.1% of the strata is 60–80% canopy cover dominated by small stands. There is a total of 14 sampling plots inventoried and measured using 40 x 40m square plot sampling. 41% of the three species found comprised of rubber trees (Hevea Brasiliensis). The total number of trees estimated is 97,325 trees with the average density of 21 m2/ha and 24,146.54 Mg CO2e aboveground biomass and carbon stocking.