A systematic review on the aboveground biomass and carbon stocks of Indian forest ecosystems

Ecological Processes

Table 2 Carbon pool estimates of Indian forest

Year	Forest area (M ha)	Methodology	Phytomass carbon pool (Tg C)	Source
1880/1980	102.7/64.6	Historical records, ecological data and population-based forest biomass degradation model	7940/3426	Richards and Flint (1994)
1980	52.6	Ecological studies-based mean phytomass density for two forest types	2587	Hingane (1991)
1980/1990	51.73	Using FAO inventories for ecological zone-wise five categories	3322/3117	Dadhwal et al. (1998)
1982/1991	64.2/64.01	State-wise RS-based forest area, field inventories based growing stock and crown density based BEFs for two classes	3978/4071	Dadhwal and Shah (1997)
1985	64.2	Growing stock volume data and single conversion factor	1994	Dadhwal and Nayak (1993)
1986	64.01	RS-based area, crown cover fraction for 16 forest types, Phytomass densities from ecological studies	4179	Ravindranath et al. (1997)
1993	64.01	State-wise growing stock FSI data, BEFs as function of GSVD for three crown density classes, four forest categories	4341.8	Chhabra et al. (2002a, b)
1995	63.96	Forest stratum-wise growing stock volume FSI data and a standard BEF relating to wood volume by IPCC	2026	Lal and Singh (2000)

Procured from: Chhabra et al. (2002b)
Mha 10⁶ ha, Tg C 10¹² gC, BEF biomass expansion factor, FSI forest survey of India, GSVD growing stock volume density, IPCC Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, RS remote sensing