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    Abstract

  • Urban parks and gardens are considered as lungs of the towns and cities that play a significant role in the global carbon cycle. An attempt was made to study carbon sequestration by standing trees in two gardens, namely Tagore garden (3 ha) and Suramya garden (1.25 ha) and one Children’s park (1.0 ha), located in the cantonment area of Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh. These are governed by the Cantonment Board, Jabalpur. Total standing trees inside the two gardens and park were 197, 86 and 132 respectively. Total carbon sequestration was recorded highest in Tagore garden (132.067 tons) followed by Children’s park (56.771 tons) and Suramya garden (27.67 tons). Maximum diversity of different tree species were found in Tagore garden (37 spp.) followed by Children’s park (22 spp.) and Suramya Garden (16 spp.). Among 37 different species in Tagore garden, Fishtail palm, Caryota urens was maximum in number (33) followed by Mango, Mangifera indica (29) and Jackfruit, Artocarpus heterophyllus (18) and Bottle palm, Hyophorbe lagenicaulis (18). Total carbon sequestration by C. urens, M. indica, A. heterophyllus and H. lagenicaulia were measured to be 10.78, 20.08, 18.82 and 8.82 tons respectively. Suramya garden is dominantly spread only by C. urens, as there were 47 trees in the garden, next in terms of number is Kachnar, Bauhinia variegata as there were 10 trees. Total carbon sequestration by C. urens and B. variegata were measured to be 8.88 and 0.26 tons respectively. In Children’s park, Jamun, Syzygium cumini was found maximum in number (38) followed by M. indica (20) and H. lagenicaulia (20). Total carbon sequestration by S. cumini, M. indica and H. lagenicaulia were recorded to be 19.49, 6.90 and 1.60 tons respectively. Benefits from trees in climate mitigation and value of urban gardens and parks to wellbeing of local communities in terms of health and other benefits are discussed in this paper.

    Keywords

  • Carbon sequestration, gardens and park, Jabalpur.

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