TY  - JOUR
AU  - Vásquez, Ekatherina
AU  - Ladd, Brenton
AU  - Borchard, Nils
TI  - Carbon storage in a high-altitude Polylepis woodland in the Peruvian Andes
JO  - Alpine botany
VL  - 124
IS  - 1
SN  - 1664-221X
CY  - Berlin
PB  - Springer
M1  - FZJ-2014-03393
SP  - 71 - 75
PY  - 2014
AB  - Polylepis woodland occurs in Peru’s tropical highlands at elevations between 3,500 and 5,000 m above sea level and Polylepis is the most common tree at timberline in South America. The objective of this study was to assess the total ecosystem carbon stock in a Polylepis incana woodland, i.e., aboveground biomass (canopy trees and understory), root biomass and soil carbon stocks were all quantified. As part of this study, an allometric equation for the quantification of the aboveground biomass of individual P. incana trees was developed for the first time. The most important carbon pool was the soil (39.7 ± 6.9 kg m−2) followed by the aboveground biomass of Polylepis trees (3.8 ± 0.7 kg m−2). The total ecosystem carbon stock was estimated to be 43.9 ± 7.6 kg m−2; thus, 90.6 % of the ecosystem carbon stock is soil carbon
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
UR  - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000334595600007
DO  - DOI:10.1007/s00035-014-0126-y
UR  - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/153953
ER  -