Monitoring Carbon Stock and Land-Use Change in 5000-Year-Old Juniper Forest Stand of Ziarat, Balochistan, Through a Synergistic Approach
Article Monitoring Carbon Stock and Land-Use Change in 5000-Year-Old Juniper Forest Stand of Ziarat, Balochistan, through a Synergistic Approach Hamayoon Jallat 1 , Muhammad Fahim Khokhar 1,* , Kamziah Abdul Kudus 2 , Mohd Nazre 2 , Najam u Saqib 1, Usman Tahir 3 and Waseem Razzaq Khan 2,4,* 1 Institute of Environmental Science and Engineering, National University of Science and Technology, Islamabad 44000, Pakistan; hjallat.mses2017iese@student.nust.edu.pk (H.J.); nsaqib.mses2017iese@student.nust.edu.pk (N.u.S.) 2 Department of Forest Science & Biodiversity, Faculty of Forestry and Environment, Universiti Putra Malaysia, UPM Serdang, Selangor 43400, Malaysia; kamziah@upm.edu.my (K.A.K.); nazre@upm.edu.my (M.N.) 3 Department of Forest Sciences, Chair of Tropical and International Forestry, Faculty of Environmental Science, Technische Universität, 01069 Dresden, Germany; usman.tahir@mailbox.tu-dresden.de 4 Institut Ecosains Borneo, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Bintulu Kampus, Sarawak 97008, Malaysia * Correspondence: fahim.khokhar@iese.nust.edu.pk (M.F.K.); khanwaseem@upm.edu.my (W.R.K.); Tel.: +92-51-9085-4308 (M.F.K.); +60-19-3557-839 (W.R.K.) Abstract: The Juniper forest reserve of Ziarat is one of the biggest Juniperus forests in the world. This study assessed the land-use changes and carbon stock of Ziarat. Different types of carbon pools were quantified in terms of storage in the study area in tons/ha i.e., above ground, soil, shrubs and litter. The Juniper species of this forest is putatively called Juniperus excelsa Beiberstein. To estimate above- ground biomass, different allometric equations were applied.
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