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Table 6 Standing biomass of different forest types of India

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

Sr. No.

Forest Types

Standing biomass (t ha− 1)

Reference

1

Tropical wet evergreen

607.7

Rai (1981)

2

Tropical semi evergreen

468.0

Swami (1989)

3

Tropical moist deciduous

409.3

Swami (1989)

4

Littoral and swamp

213.8

Singh (1989)

5

Tropical dry deciduous

93.8

Singh (1990)

6

Tropical thorna

40.0

 

7

Tropical dry evergreenb

40.0

 

8

Subtropical broad leafed hill

108.7

Toky and Ramakrishnan (1982)

9

Subtropical Pine

210.8

Chaturvedi and Singh (1984)

10

Subtropical dry evergreenc

159.7

 

11

Montane wet temperate

237.67

Yadava (1986)

12

Himalayan moist temperate

562.2

Rana (1985)

13

Himalayan dry temperated

169.1

 

14–16

Subalpine and alpine

127.4

Yoda (1968), cited by Cannell (1982)

  1. Source: Ravindranath et al. (1997)
  2. aTropical thorn forest were assumed to have 40% of the crown cover of tropical dry deciduous forests as they appear alongside the tropical dry deciduous forest; 40% of standing biomass of deciduous forests were assumed to be the standing biomass of tropical thorn forests, which is 37.52 t ha− 1 further rounded off to 40 t ha− 1
  3. bSame as tropical thorn forest
  4. cSince it occurs between subtropical pine and tropical dry deciduous forests, a mid value between the standing biomass values of these two forests types is used
  5. dSince it occurs between subtropical pine and subalpine forests, a mid value between the standing biomass values of these two forests types is used