AUTHORS:

Butoto Imani wa Rusaati, Sung-Hyun Joo, Gi-Yun Yun, JooWon Park, Masumbuko Ndabaga Cephas, Jun-Won Kang

ABSTRACT:

The objective of this research was to assess the amount of carbon stock of coarse woody debris (CWD) in Bombo-Lumene Reserve. Data on lying CWD was collected on 35 circular sampling plots using Line Intersect Sampling (LIS) method.
A total of 230 samples CWD (≥10 cm diameter) were inventoried. The mean carbon stocks of CWD was 29.48 Mg
C ha-1, ranging from 4.32 to 73.54 Mg C ha-1. The CWD carbon stocks displayed a wide range of variation in decay
states. The allocation of CWD among the decay class of all the CWD samples reveals that the most important classes
were class 1 and class 3 with 323.66 and 321.96 Mg C ha-1, followed by class 4 with 264.56 and the last one was
class 2 with 121.72 Mg C ha-1. The results suggested that the dead wood component is important in carbon sequestrationand should be taken into consideration for quantification of carbon stocks not only in Bombo- Lumene Reserve, butin all forest ecosystems in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

KEYWORDS:

Bombo-Lumene reserve, carbon stocks, coarse woody debris, Democratic Republic of Congo, line intersect sampling (LIS)

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