In China, the bamboo area is approximately 6.01 × 10 6 ha and accounts for approximately 3% of the total forest area. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.Ĭompeting interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.īamboo ( Bambuseae), an important forest type worldwide, is mostly distributed in the tropical and subtropical regions of Asia. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.ĭata Availability: All relevant data are within the paper.įunding: The authors would like to thank the National Forestry Public Welfare Industry Research Project (201504407) and National Natural Science Foundation of China (41671296) for the financial support. Received: JAccepted: JanuPublished: February 16, 2018Ĭopyright: © 2018 Xu et al. PLoS ONE 13(2):Įditor: Arun Nath, Assam University, INDIA Parameters obtained in this study can be used to accurately estimate the carbon stock of Moso bamboo forest to establish models of the global carbon balance.Ĭitation: Xu M, Ji H, Zhuang S (2018) Carbon stock of Moso bamboo ( Phyllostachys pubescens) forests along a latitude gradient in the subtropical region of China. As a fast-growing plant, Moso bamboo could be harvested amounts of 6.0 Mg C ha −1 to 7.6 Mg C ha −1 annually, which indicates a high potential of this species for carbon sequestration. The total carbon stock of Moso bamboo forests, which comprises soil and biomass carbon, ranged from 87.83 Mg C ha −1 to 119.5 Mg C ha −1 and linearly increased with latitude. The bamboo biomass carbon decreased from 60.58 Mg C ha −1 to 48.31 Mg C ha −1 from north to south. Results showed that the diameter at breast height (DBH) of Moso bamboo culms increased from 8.37 cm to 10.12 cm that well fitted by Weibull model, whereas the bamboo culm density decreased from 4722 culm ha −1 to 3400 culm ha −1 with increasing latitude. In this study, a field survey with 36 plots of Moso bamboo forests along a latitude gradient was conducted to investigate carbon stock. Nevertheless, the effect of latitude on the carbon stock of Moso bamboo remains unclear.
Accurate estimation of the carbon stock of Moso bamboo forest can contribute to sufficient evaluation of forests in carbon sequestration worldwide. Latitude is an important factor that influences the carbon stock of Moso bamboo ( Phyllostachys pubescens) forests.
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