Urban Forests Carbon Storage and Sequestration Benefits in Changchun City, Based on i-Tree Model

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The study area and plant 928786 trees, of which the most enjoy trees, accounting for about 45.6% of the total number of trees in the city. Eight of the region in the study area covered 2.7-7.9% of trees. Salix matsudana, Populus pseudo-simonii, Pinus sylvestnis var. mongolica Litv, Pinus tabulaeformis var.mukdensis Uyeki and Prunus persica f. rubro-plena is the most important species, they represent 32.2% of the number of all the trees, leaves area of 50.6% and 43.1% of the leaf biomass. The city a lot of trees concentrated in diameter at breast height 15.3-38.1 cm. In general, the tree is younger Changchun city (50.7% of DBH less than 23 cm). A large part of Changchun city area (accounting for 54% of the whole city) is by impervious material, asphalt, cement, stone cover, and the remaining 46% is permeable ground, herb areas, lawns and a small proportion of the pond, artificial lakes and rivers.

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Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 573-574)

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October 2012

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