Quantifying the above ground biomass and carbon storage of urban tree species in sokoto metropolis, North-Western Nigeria

• Main Authors: Dangulla, Murtala, Abd Manaf, Latifah, Ramli, Mohd Firuz, Yacob, Mohd Rusli, Abdillah, Ahmad Makmom
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Malaysian Institute of Planners 2019
• Online Access: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/81912/1/Quantifying%20the%20above%20ground%20biomass%20.pdf; http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/81912/; https://www.planningmalaysia.org/index.php/pmj/article/view/639

Increases in human activities, land use/cover changes and urbanisation have led to continuous accumulation of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, thus threatening the efficiency of natural carbon sinks such as urban trees. This paper assessed the aboveground biomass and carb...