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Estimating Carbon Sequestration by Planting a Leisure-Recreation Place in Gangwon Province, Korea  

Hong, Suk-Hwan (Dept. of Landscape Architecture, Pusan National Univ.)
Sung, Chan-Yong (Dept. of Environmental Planning, Keimyung Univ.)
Yoo, Ki-Joon (Division of Tourism, Sangji Univ.)
Cho, Woo (Division of Tourism, Sangji Univ.)
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Korean Journal of Environment and Ecology / v.26, no.3, 2012 , pp. 446-453 More about this Journal
Abstract
This study estimated how much carbon can be sequestered if we plant trees in non-forested areas in the 36 hole Oak Valley Golf Courses in Gangwon Province, Korea. We identified plantable areas where planting trees will not affect golf game using high resolution aerial photography and ground survey and estimated the annual carbon sequestration rate of the planted trees using biomass equations. Of the golf courses, 30.3% were covered by forest. Other major land cover types include lawn, waterbody, baresoil, buildings, and roads. The plantable areas consist of $106,101m^2$ of lawn (6.0% of the study site) and $177,531m^2$ of low density forest (10.1% of the study site). We assumed to plant Mongolian oaks with 10 cm in diameter at brest height with the density of $0.3/m^2$ in the lawn and $0.2/m^2$ in the low density forest. The planting simulation shows that the total number of the newly planted trees were 67,336, and the total carbon sequestered during the subsequent year was 392.9 tC/yr, which offset 12.5% of the total carbon emitted from the golf courses. The annual carbon sequestration rate gradually increases and reaches its maximum level at 440.5 tC/yr in 15 years since the initial reforestation (14.0% of the carbon emission from the golf courses).
Keywords
PLANTABLE AREAS; BIOMASS EQUATION; CARBON SEQUESTRATION;
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