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Research student, Department of Environmental Sciences, Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University Aurangabad
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Professor, Department of Environmental Sciences, Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University Aurangabad
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Abstract:Trees from the urban regions currently store Climate Change has provided a vehicle for considering the
carbon, which can be released into the atmosphere after the various effects of carbon sinks and sources, as well as
death of tree, and capture carbon as they grow. A major addressing issues concerned to fossil fuels emission.
challenge is the lack of correct and spatially explicit Growing concern about the climate change and concerned
estimates of tree carbon storage over the entire urbanized problems led to the research quantifying the overall effects
area. The study was carried out in and around university of trees from the urban area on atmospheric carbon dioxide
campus of Aurangabad city to know the CO2 sequestration (CO2 ) [4,5,6,7,8,9]. Trees from Urban area also affect
from the selected ten tree species. Assessment of the carbon temperatures of air and building energy use, and
sequestration of urban trees was carried out through the consequently alter carbon release from numerous urban
biomass estimation and quantification. For the estimation of sources [2]. Thus, urban trees potentially influence the
total CO2 sequestration DBH and height measured. Wood climate at the local level, carbon cycles, energy use and the
densities were obtained from world agroforestry centre. It climate change [10, 11, 12, 13, 14]. Urban trees affect
is found that highest CO2 3916. 81 kg/tree captured by climate change, but these trees are often disregarded
Swietenia mahagoni followed by Pithocellobium dulce which because their environmental services are not so well
is captured 1401.18 kg of CO2 per tree. Total above ground understood or quantified. Trees act as a sink for carbon
biomass 3463.10, total below ground biomass 900, total dioxide (CO2) by fixing carbon during the photosynthesis
biomass 4363.50, total carbon 2181.75 kg/tree. Total tree and storing carbon as the biomass. The clear long-term CO2
count is 835 out of which Roystonea regia found 206 tree origin dynamics of the forests change through time as trees
count which is maximum. It is found that total CO2 grow, die, and decay. Human influences on forests can
sequestered by the selected area is 565.32 tonnes. Carbon further affect CO2 source dynamics of urban forests through
sequestration is a way to mitigate the accumulation of such components as fossil fuel emissions and harvesting of
greenhouse gases in the atmosphere released by the burning biomass [3].
of fossil fuels and other anthropogenic activities.
2. MATERIALS AND METHODS
KEYWORDS: - biomass, tree, CO2 sequestration, gas, fuels
2.1 Location
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