Roadside trees are effective natural solutions for
mitigating climate change. Despite the usefulness of trees to carbon
sequestration, there is a dearth of information on the estimation of biomass and carbon stock for roadside trees in the study area. This study aimed to estimate the
carbon stock and carbondioxide
equivalent of roadside trees. A complete enumeration of trees was carried
out in Kétou, Pobè and Sakété within the communes of the Plateau Department,
Bénin Republic. Total height and diameter at breast height were measured from
trees along the roads while individual wood density value was obtained from
wood density database. The allometric method of biomass estimation
was adopted for the research. The results showed that the total
estimations for above-ground biomass, carbon stock and carbon equivalent from all the enumerated roadside trees were 154.53mt, 72.63mt and 266.55mt,respectively. The results imply that the roadside
trees contain a substantialamount of carbon stock that can contribute to climate change mitigation through carbon sequestration.
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