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Estimation of Forest Biomass in Korea  

Son, Yeong Mo (Korea Forest Research Institute)
Lee, Kyeong Hak (Korea Forest Research Institute)
Kim, Rae Hyun (Korea Forest Research Institute)
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Journal of Korean Society of Forest Science / v.96, no.4, 2007 , pp. 477-482 More about this Journal
Abstract
Forest biomass became a topic because we have growing interest in global environmental issues and environment-friendly energy resources. This study was carried out to estimate the forest biomass and develop a program for biomass information management in Korea. The total forest biomass (million ton) were 521 for gross forest, 403 for productive forest and 201 for commercial forest in 2005. Also, the annual biomass production in forest was 20 million ton which was equivalent to 94,290 Gkcal of heating value and about 9 billion won of paraffin oil. The biomass growing rate (every 10year) increased from 4.95% in 1985 to 5.30% in 1995 but turn down 4.46% in 2005. The factors that the forest stock could be converted to the forest biomass have developed according to forest type. Therefore, it is impossible to estimate the exact biomass by tree species. In this reason, the demands of the development of the factors by tree species was raised. In addition, it is on time to develop an equation for estimation of biomass by species using dbh and height as independent factors.
Keywords
forest biomass; biomass management program; biomass growing rate;
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